Category Archives: Honors and Accomplishments

Student video on open access wins international award

Five University of Illinois at Chicago students won an international competition for a short video illustrating how online open-access publishing can spur innovation.
UIC Honors College students Danaya Panya, Jaymeni Patel, Sebastian
Rivera, Uriel Rotstein and Hemanth Sirandas produced “To Infinity and Beyond,” a one-minute video that can be viewed online.
The students produced the [...]

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LHSU is Department of the Month!

For September 2007, the Library of the Health Sciences-Urbana was recognized as Department of the Month. Watch our promotional video:
http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhsu/temp/newerproj.html
*Make sure you have Flash Player installed on your computer, and cue up the sound!

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UIC Librarian appointed to Depository Library Council

Associate Professor John Shuler, Bibliographer for Government Information and Urban Planning/ Documents Librarian has been appointed to the Public Printer’s Depository Library Council. This Council is composed of 15 members, each of whom serves a three year term and is responsible for advising the Public Printer on policy matters relating to the Federal Depository [...]

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Graduation Honors for Peoria Staff Member

Peg Burnette, Library Operations Assistant at the Library of the Health Sciences in Peoria, has been selected to receive the Health Sciences Information Award at this year’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science Convocation at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana on May 13.
The Health Sciences Information Management Award was established in 1992 [...]

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Research Honor

According to a recently-published analysis of library and information science literature, Professor Stephen J. Wiberley, Jr. Bibliographer for the Social Sciences at UIC Library was one of the top-cited researchers during the ten-year period studied.
“Analysis of a Decade in Library Literature: 1994-2004” by Kelly Blessinger and Michele Frasier in College & [...]

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Nourishing Culture: Greek Immigrants & Food in Chicago

Peggy Glowacki, archivist in the UIC Library Special Collections Department, is the curator of a new exhibit at the Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center. The exhibit, Nourishing Culture: Greek Immigrants & Food in Chicago, examines the role that food played in the story of Greek immigration to Chicago and the evolution of Greek [...]

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UIC Librarian Honored

Emily Guss, Assistant Professor at the University Library, was presented with the 2007 Trailblazer Award at the Chicago Public Library’s African American History Month Opening Program. Ms. Guss was Co-chair of the African American Services Committee at CPL for many years and the Director of the CPL’s Woodson Regional Library. She retired [...]

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UIC Library Preserves Chicago Urban League Papers with $100,000 Save America’s Treasures Grant

Records of the Chicago Urban League will be preserved and housed at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Richard J. Daley Library under terms of a two-year, $100,000 grant from Save America’s Treasures, a federal program administered by the National Park Service.
The records include about 400 cartons of correspondence, research papers, photographs, artifacts and news [...]

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