CARLI News

From: Black Hawk College

East Wahian (1978)

With the release of the new film next week, I am jumping on the Star Wars bandwagon for this month’s featured digitized book from the CARLI Internet Archive collections.

 
 
 

 

 

December 11, 2015
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From Chicago - Photographic Images of Change (University of Illinois at Chicago) in CARLI Digital Collections.

 
A recent Chicago transplant learns about historic images of the Chicago Christmas Tree transplant.  

December 10, 2015
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Recordings and Slides from CARLI Annual Meeting Now Available

Over 130 people attended the CARLI Annual Meeting in Champaign on Friday, November 13 to celebrate 35 Years of I-Share and 10 Years of CARLI.  If you missed the meeting, or want to see any of it again, visit the event page to find a link to the recordings of the morning and afternoon sessions, as well as links to the speakers’ slide presentations. 

November 20, 2015
By: Michelle Haake

From Barbara A. Cooke Sheet Music Collection (University of St. Francis) in CARLI Digital Collections.

Never let it be said that these Featured Image posts aren't educational. I hadn't even heard of George M. Cohan before making this pick. Fortunately, that newfound piece of knowledge, along with a few other reasons I thought of, spared us all from an ill-advised quasi-limerick in which I attempted to rhyme "lady named Mary" with "extraordinary" and "SIUE" with "CCC."
 
 

November 20, 2015
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​Film–whether motion picture film, cut sheet film, microfilm, (either microform or microfiche), and amateur film – is generally at great risk in most collections. These four kinds of film come in three major materials: nitrate, acetate and polyester. Of these three, most attention will be paid to acetate because it is fragile and common. In contrast, the earliest of these materials, nitrate, while fragile and flammable, is relatively rare. The most recently developed material of film, polyester, though common, is a very stable material and requires less attention.

The four major steps to film preservation are locate the film, identify its material, assess its condition, and choose a preservation storage method based on best practices for condition of film and institutional feasibility. Unfortunately, none of these is easy.  

November 19, 2015
By: Elizabeth Clarage

From:Northwestern University

The Purple Parrot (Dec 1949)

What exactly is The Purple Parrot? This question has crossed my mind many times as I’ve searched through some of CARLI’s expansive holdings the past few years. From 1921-1950, The Purple Parrot was essentially Northwestern University’s answer to the Harvard Lampoon, a satirical magazine that skewers student life and cultural events of the time.

 

 

November 13, 2015
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From World War II Correspondence (Illinois Wesleyan University) in CARLI Digital Collections.

"The silence & quiet inactivity around this squadron is slowly driving everybody nuts. Pretty soon I'll be cutting out paper dolls in strings, I wish I could give you the full dope about this but I can't."
 
 
 
 
 

November 6, 2015
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From  EBR Million Man March ( Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) in CARLI Digital Collections.

 

Do you know the people in this photo? They may be your neighbors, colleagues, relatives or friends. Maybe one of them is YOU.

 

October 23, 2015
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From: Rush University

Rush University Rush Medical College New Student Picture Book, 1977

Before there was Facebook, there were face books. Unlike yearbooks, comprehensive retrospectives published at the end of an academic year, these books were issued at the beginning of the year as a means of identifying students new to campus.

 
 

 

October 16, 2015
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Register Now for the CARLI Annual Meeting

The 2015 CARLI Annual Meeting will be held Friday, November 13 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Champaign. Staff at any CARLI member library are invited to attend. The meeting, celebrating 35 years of I-Share and 10 years of CARLI, will feature a look back at the original vision for online academic library cooperation in Illinois and a discussion of this cooperation in the present context, an overview of CARLI in 2015, and a discussion about the future of academic libraries, and of CARLI over the next 5-10 years. To view the full agenda and to register, visit the event page.

October 14, 2015
By: Michelle Haake

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