UIC Library News

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
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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 […]

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 […]

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 & […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]