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New Online Exhibit About the Cook County Forest Preserves

val66 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:40:34 +0000

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 Illinois at Chicago. This collection is scheduled to be open to the public in 2011. The library wishes to thank the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelly Foundation for their support in acquiring the collection and making this exhibit possible.

English in Print: from Caxton to Milton

val66 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:23:59 +0000

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, grammar, and spelling.

Also on display are seven 16th and 17th century books about the medical sciences and natural history from Special Collections at the Library of the Health Sciences-Chicago.

The exhibit was made possible through the generous support of the Caxton Club and can be viewed Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, 9 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. and Saturday October 10 and 24, and November 14, 12:30-4:30 p.m. For information and directions, call 312/996-2742.

UIC Special Collections and University Archives Welcomes Chicago Metro History Fair Students & Teachers

val66 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:55:53 +0000

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 Collections and University Archives Department is pleased to continue its support of the Fair and National History Day, and has identified collections that will contribute to the primary source research for this year’s theme of “Innovation in History.” For a downloadable PDF list of sources, click here.

Special Collections and University Archives Closed Saturday, August 8th

val66 — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:56:06 +0000

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.

New Online Health Tracking Network

Rebecca — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:47:53 +0000

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 health effect, environmental hazard, exposure, and more. There is also a link to an online Tracking 101 Course which has CE credits.

UIC on the ice! Hockey Program archives available for research

lnaru — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:20:32 +0000

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 Intercollegiate Hockey League, composed of Illinois colleges, and won back-to-back league titles in 1968 and 1969. In 1970, the UIC hockey team left the local league and began competing against other independent college-division teams from Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. Left wing Clive Wang was UICC’s first All-American in 1970. In 1982, the UIC Flames hockey team joined the Central Collegiate Hockey Association, an NCAA Division I conference, and played games at the UIC Pavilion. The program was discontinued in 1996.

The guide to the records of the Hockey Program is available online.

For more information, consult the Ask a Librarian service.

LHSU Spring Break Hours

jillbarr — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:06:03 +0000

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!

Parkinson’s Study Backed by Google Co-Founder

mlgold2 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:49:36 +0000

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.”

New electronic resources bring early books, 1960s documents to desktop

lnaru — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:15:46 +0000

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 so you can search all full text from 1475 to 1800.

Literature Criticism Online (LCO) delivers access to valuable works formerly available only in our non-circulating reference collection. LCO replaces our brown bound books series titled: Contemporary Literary Criticism , Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism , Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, and Children’s Literature Review. UIC users have access to these works from volume one to the most current one.

The Sixties is a new project on life in the 1960s. The Sixties brings together materials from 1960-1974: diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary on American history, politics and culture. Its scope and contents will continue to grow as the editors solicit new contributions.

A full list of electronic resources available to UIC students, faculty, and staff is available online

Alexander Schmidt Papers are available for research at LHS-Chicago

val66 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:38:55 +0000

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 of Dr. Schmidt.

Among many other topics, the collection documents: the consolidation of the Chicago Circle and Medical Center campuses; the construction and administration of the new University of Illinois Hospital; and a controversial plan to merge the University of Illinois and Cook County Hospitals.

A finding aid for the collection is available online at: http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/services/lhsc/ead/003-17-01f.html

Researchers can use this collection in the Special Collections Department at the Library of the Health Science-Chicago. Please call 312.996.8977 to schedule an appointment.