This is the kind of exciting thing we should all be doing! -- collaborating to virtually combine our complementary materials into a single comprehensive resource. Illinois Wesleyan has done it with the David & Sarah Davis Family Correspondence, and they have done it well.
The CARLI EBL eBook Patron Driven Acquisitions Pilot Project is now live for all CARLI Governing Member institutions.
You have two ways of discovering and accessing these eBooks: a) by going directly to an EBL website for the project, or b) from MARC records in your catalog.
Chicago telephone directory (1892)
“The Mail is Quick. The Telegraph is Quicker, but the LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE Is Instantaneous and you don’t have to wait for an answer.” So reads the footnote advertisement in the Chicago Telephone Directory from 1892. It is hard to imagine, in these days when email, texting, and Skype are all everyday terms, a time when using a telephone was a novelty and considered the height of convenience.
In this document from the Swedish-American Historical Book Collection at North Park University, Swede Rosalie Roos writes of her travels in the southern United States during the early 1850s. She used the trip to test the strength of her independent spirit, as well as the American Dream. Her diaries and letters home over the course of the four years spent in South Carolina were forgotten for many years but discovered and extracts published in the late 20th century by her granddaughter.
Voting is now open for seats on the CARLI Board of Directors. Each of the CARLI constituencies—Community Colleges; Private Colleges and Universities; and Public Universities—will elect one new Board member for a three-year term (July 1, 2014–June 30, 2017).
Voting will remain open until 5 pm on Friday, May 9, 2014.
Overwhelmed by the two drafts of the new Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education that will update the current standards from 2000? >Read on to find a quick list of links to discover what other librarians are saying on the subject and join in on the discussion.
CARLI is seeking volunteers to serve on 10 advisory committees. Volunteers chosen will serve a three year term, July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2017. Faculty and staff members from all CARLI member libraries, with all levels of experience, are encouraged to apply.
Read the CARLI News for the latest information on CARLI events, new and ongoing projects, product and service updates and upcoming deadlines. Issues are sent to all subscribers of the “Announce” listserv.
From Wesleyana Yearbooks (Illinois Wesleyan University) in CARLI Digital Collections.
The moral of this featured image, to quote Thoreau: It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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