By val66 | Published:
March 5, 2009
The UIC University Archives is pleased to announce the availability of the Alexander Schmidt Papers. Alexander Schmidt was Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs from 1976 to 1987. The collection (measuring 78 linear feet) consists of the records of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs as well as the personal papers [...]
By lnaru | Published:
February 4, 2009
The UIC Library’s photographic materials in the James S. Parker Collection are featured in an upcoming CANTV program. The 30-minute program, African American History as Seen in Bronzeville Architecture, 1950s – 2001, is on CANTV Channel 19, on Friday, February 6, at 5 p.m., and Sunday, February 8, at noon. The program participants [...]
By lnaru | Published:
January 27, 2009
The Burton F. Natarus Papers are processed and available for researchers to use in the Daley Library Special Collections department. A finding aid is available online.
Natarus served as a Chicago alderman for 36 years, representing residents of the Loop, River North, and Streeterville neighborhoods during a time of rapid change and great improvement. [...]
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By lnaru | Published:
January 7, 2009
The Daley Library Special Collections and University Archives reading room has expanded hours for researchers to two Saturdays each month and longer hours on Wednesdays. The new schedule takes effect January 10, 2009.
On the second and fourth Saturday of each month, the reading room is open 12:30 pm – 4:30 pm. On Wednesdays, [...]
By lnaru | Published:
November 3, 2008
Drawing on documents and photographs from the Chicago Urban League Records and other collections in UIC’s Special Collections and Archives Department, the exhibit “Fight School Segregation! Building a Protest Movement in Chicago,” features the movement for racial integration and equality within the Chicago Public Schools.
Between 1957 and 1966, civil rights activists, teachers, parents, [...]
By lnaru | Published:
October 7, 2008
The Chicago Area Medical Archivists seventh annual history symposium, scheduled for October 24, at UIC’s Library of the Health Sciences, features three presentations on significant medical events in Chicago history.
Marlene Fishman, B.S.E., will speak on The Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary: Celebrating 150 Years of Patient Care, Research and Education. Sidney Blair, M.D., Fellowship [...]
By lnaru | Published:
October 7, 2008
The UIC Library and the University of Illinois Press celebrate the publication of The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair: A Century of Progress, by Cheryl R. Ganz, in UIC’s Richard J. Daley Library, Monday, October 20, 2008, 3:00-5:00 pm. The program, book signing, reception will take place in the Reserve Reading Room (1st [...]
By lnaru | Published:
June 13, 2008
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 [...]
By lnaru | Published:
May 21, 2008
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 [...]
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By lnaru | Published:
March 13, 2008
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 [...]