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Medical iPhone applications

Do you have an iPhone? Did you ever wonder if there are medical tools that you can use on it? Look no further because LHS-U has compiled a list of relevant medical applications that can be downloaded to your iPhone! Most of these applications can be found in the App Store unless otherwise noted. Prices [...]

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Student video on open access wins international award

Five University of Illinois at Chicago students won an international competition for a short video illustrating how online open-access publishing can spur innovation.
UIC Honors College students Danaya Panya, Jaymeni Patel, Sebastian
Rivera, Uriel Rotstein and Hemanth Sirandas produced “To Infinity and Beyond,” a one-minute video that can be viewed online.
The students produced the [...]

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Extended hours at LHS-U this weekend

There will be extended hours at LHS-U this weekend because of the upcoming M1 anatomy exam. The hours are as follows:
Friday, January 30th: 8:30am- 8pm
Saturday, January 31st: 9am- 8pm
Sunday, February 1st: 1pm- 10pm
Monday, February 2nd: 7am- 10pm

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LHS-U Spring Semester Hours

As the new semester begins, LHS-U will return to normal spring hours on Sunday, January 11th. The hours for the semester will be as follows:
Monday – Thursday:  8:30am – 10:00pm
Friday:  8:30am – 5:00pm
Saturday:  11:00am – 4:00pm
Sunday:  3:00pm – 8:00pm
**Note that the library will be closed Monday, January 19  in observance of Martin Luther King [...]

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UIC Library Program Explores the World of Maps on March 20

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 [...]

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Google vs. reference librarians

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.”
Full Text Link:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/25/sunday/main608672.shtml
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Images Bring to Life the 1933 Century of Progress

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 [...]

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