This lithograph by Antonia Contro is featured in celebration of the 108th anniversary of the Cubs' World Series win.
This lithograph by Antonia Contro is featured in celebration of the 108th anniversary of the Cubs' World Series win.
The 2016 CARLI Annual Meeting will be held Friday, November 18 at the I Hotel and Conference Center in Champaign. Staff at any CARLI member library are invited to attend. The meeting will feature an overview of several of the 2016 CARLI Committee projects in the morning and an interactive small group discussion about your ideas for the CARLI 2020 Strategic Plan in the afternoon.
This photo of a little girl reading a comic book comes to you from the Daily Life Along the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad Collection from Newberry Library. In honor of the American Library Assocation's Banned Books Week (September 25-October 1, 2016), this image is a celebration of reading banned books!
Melanie R. Schoenborn, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and
Joseph (Joe)Feigl, III, LIS graduate student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Printable pamphlet (8.5" x 11", trifold)
It's football season again and what better way to celebrate than a photo that illustrates the rough tumble ways the game was played back in the day.
The Kindergarten journal: vol.1, no.3, yr.1910
To keep with this week's Tumblr theme of Chicago history, here's an advertisement for the Chicago Kindergarten College.
The 2016 CARLI Annual Meeting will be held on Friday, November 18 at the I-Hotel Conference Center in Champaign. Staff at any CARLI member library is invited to attend.
Watch for more registration information coming in September.
Beth McGowan, PhD, MLIS, Northern Illinois University
Over the course of the summer, there have been several 500-year floods in Louisiana, record fires in California, and extreme heat all over the East Coast that led to power outages in New York City. Hurricane season is here as well as the standard Midwestern woes of spring tornados. The number and kinds of disaster that can hit any institution are legion. So, libraries all need to be ready to care for their collections in the event of a disaster.
The image of the lone artist toiling away at his or her masterpiece is a persistent one. But, especially in the case of large scale public sculpture, it often takes a village to bring a work of art to life.
Inside this issue of CDCFI: Operating systems and comic books and souls, oh my!