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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 […]

Craig Silverstein, Google’s director of technology and the first employee hired at Google said: “My guess is about 300 years until
computers are as good as, say, your local reference library in doing search,” says Craig Silverstein. “But we can make slow and steady progress, and maybe one day we’ll get there.”
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/25/sunday/main608672.shtml
In other […]

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 […]