By val66 | Published:
November 4, 2009
Learn the history of the Cook Country Forest Preserves and discover how preservationists ensured future generations access to some of Cook County’s greatest natural resources.
Most of the material in this exhibit <http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/fdpcc> comes from the Forest Preserves District of Cook County records at the Special Collections department of the Daley Library, at the University of [...]
By val66 | Published:
October 9, 2009
The Special Collections Department at the Richard J. Daley Library invites you to a new exhibit, on view October 2-November 30, 2009.
The English in Print exhibit features 50 early imprints from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The selections of 15th-17th centuries show the development of format, typography, [...]
By val66 | Published:
September 15, 2009
More than 20,000 students in grades 6-12 discover their local history through the Chicago Metro History Fair each year. Working individually or in small groups, History Fair students explore libraries, archives, historical institutions, and their communities in search of sources that will help them answer their own historical questions and explain their topic’s historical significance.
The Special [...]
By val66 | Published:
August 7, 2009
The Special Collections and University Archives Department at the Richard J. Daley Library will be closed Saturday, August 8th for the beginning of the summer session break. The department will resume its Saturday schedule August 27th.
By Rebecca | Published:
July 8, 2009
The CDC has released the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network, the first program available on the CDC website that follows environmental exposures and chronic health conditions. There are tabs for State and Local Portals, Indicators and Data, and a Secure Portal which requires registration. The different types of data that can be viewed are [...]
By lnaru | Published:
May 11, 2009
The University Archives announces that the records of the UIC Hockey Program, including media guides, player biographies, statistics, game summaries and photographs, are now available for research.
The University of Illinois at Chicago Circle (UICC), as it was then called, first fielded a varsity hockey team in 1966. UICC competed in the Midwest [...]
LHS-U hours for spring break are as follows:
Friday 3/20: 8:30 am- 5 pm
Saturday 3/21 and Sunday 3/22: CLOSED
Monday 3/23 through Friday 3/27: 8:30 am- 4:30 pm
Saturday 3/28: CLOSED
Sunday 3/29: 3 pm- 8 pm (Resume normal hours)
Have a safe and sunshine-filled break!
By mlgold2 | Published:
March 15, 2009
Check out this story in the New York Times about Sergey Brin, Google Co Founder, contributing “money and his DNA to a large study intended to reveal the genetic underpinnings of Parkinson’s disease.”
By lnaru | Published:
March 9, 2009
The Library is pleased to announce that three new electronic resources are available.
ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) is a project that digitizes every significant English-language and foreign-language book printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. ECCO and EEBO (Early English Books Online) are cross-searchable [...]
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 [...]