Each year CARLI has a number of opportunities to serve on various committees. Service on CARLI committees affords individuals a unique opportunity to use their experience and expertise to help shape the future of the consortium and its services. CARLI is now seeking volunteers to serve on 9 advisory committees. Volunteers chosen will serve a three-year term, July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2020. Faculty and staff members from all CARLI member libraries, with all levels of experience, are encouraged to apply.
CARLI News
March 27, 2017
The story of the Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs 1900-1922
February 17, 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
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
The Shield (1956)
This photo of the Joliet Junior College library in 1956 looks like a set from a 1950s television show. It seems to embody the idea of what a library was supposed to look like in the 1950s. Ms. Skidmore looks as though she may even have her hair in a bun, for goodness sake.
March 11, 2016