The story of the Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs 1900-1922
CARLI News
February 17, 2017
The first page of this letter, written by Anna Persson to her sister in 1907, reflects the joy of a recent immigrant to the United States. What was undoubtedly an long an arduous journey is characterized simply as "a lot of fuss," and though Anna later notes that the food was terrible, and says that she already misses and worries about her mother, her tone invariably returns to a chatty optimism.
February 3, 2017
Vol 2002: Ravelings
This page from Monmouth College's Ravelings yearbook offers top-to-bottom tips on how to dress like a college student circa 2002.
December 16, 2016
St. Ignatius Loyolan (1908)
October 28, 2016
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.
September 3, 2016
Millidek (1945)
Serious business or practical joke? That is the question that comes to mind when we examine this photograph in the 1945 edition of the Millidek yearbook.
July 1, 2016
Miriam Centeno, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
As the culmination of this year-long study on the care of audiovisual materials, the CARLI Preservation Committee sponsored an AV Preservation Workshop held on April 18th, 2016, at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana Champaign. The instructor was Joshua Harris, Media Preservation Coordinator at UIUC.
May 26, 2016
CARLI is pleased to announce Voyager Web Reports Beta, a new web-based reporting tool designed by CARLI staff to provide an easy way for I-Share library staff to run reports against their Voyager databases without the need to install the Oracle/ODBC client and use MS Access. Results can be viewed, sorted, and searched in HTML format directly in your web browser, or they can be downloaded in CSV format for local manipulation. The reports come from the I-Share Shared SQL for Voyager Reports, or from the stock set of queries provided by Ex Libris in Voyager's default Reports.md
May 26, 2016
Black Hawk College East Wahian (1968)
This photo of BHE graduates is orignally from a yearbook, but has now been etched in my head as a nightmare forever.
May 6, 2016
Vol 1972: Recensio
Have you ever wondered about how yearbooks are named? Or why they’re even named at all, for that matter.
April 8, 2016