UIC Library News

The Library is pleased to announce the availability of the 2007 ISI Journal Citation Report. The JCR tracks 7,600 of the most important journals in the sciences and social sciences. With the data provided, researchers can use the JCR to help determine the most influential journals in their disciplines and which journals they should read.

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The groundbreaking separation of a pair of conjoined twins is documented in an exhibit of papers, photographs and other materials at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Library of the Health Sciences – Chicago .
In 1952, Dr. Oscar Sugar (1914-2008), a faculty member of the University of Illinois Department of Neurosurgery, led the pioneering surgery […]

Hundreds of photographs and other graphic materials from the UIC Library’s collections are freely available online, providing easy access to visual documentation of past events, social movements, architecture and the built environment, and prominent historical figures.
There are five UIC Library collections in the CARLI Digital Collections database, established by the Consortium of Academic […]

The winning entries in the Image of Research, a competition sponsored by UIC’s Graduate College and the University Library, will be displayed in the Daley Library May 2 – 30.
The Image of Research is an opportunity for a graduate student to create an image with aesthetic appeal that expresses his or her research. Each […]

The UIC Library celebrates National Library Week beginning April 13, joining a nationwide focus on the contributions of libraries, librarians and library workers in schools, campuses and communities.
Commenting on this year’s theme “Libraries Make a Difference,” University Librarian Mary Case said, “The UIC Library strives to make a difference in the lives of […]

The UIC Library presents a program in conjunction with the city-wide Festival of Maps. on Thursday March 20, 2008, from 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm, in Special Collections, Richard J. Daley Library, 3rd Floor South, 801 S. Morgan.
Speakers are Robert W. Karrow, Jr., Curator of Special Collections and Curator of Maps, The Newberry Library […]

Jennifer Eileen Knievel, Assistant Professor and Humanities Reference and Instruction Librarian at Norlin Library, University of Colorado at Boulder, will make two presentations at the University of Illinois at Chicago, talking about research in the library field and information literacy.
Prof. Knievel will be on the UIC campus on Thursday, March 13, 2008. […]

Official photographs of the Enchanted Island, the Sky Ride Trolley, the House of Tomorrow, and infamous fan dancer Sally Rand soon will be available in a digital collection, Images of Progress: Views of A Century of Progress International Exposition, 1933-1934.
The UIC Library’s Department of Special Collections and University Archives received a $20,000 grant to digitize […]

The UIC community now has access to a powerful and comprehensive database of business, economic, and demographic information for all areas of the world. Economist Intelligence databases continually update data and analyses of global industries, demographics, consumption, average wages, income levels, market size, infrastructure, and business environments. Researchers can manipulate, display, graph, […]

The Academic Computing and Communications Center (ACCC) opened its east campus Instructional Technology Lab (ITL-East) in the Richard J. Daley Library at the beginning of the spring 2008 semester. ITL-East is located at the south end of the first floor of the Daley Library in room 1-310.
The services of ITL-East are available to UIC […]