In a time when the United States Postal Service has publicly discussed cutting hours and stopping Saturday mail in order to curb spending and make up budget deficiencies, when postal mail is considered "snail mail" and a last resort in communication, it is refreshing to read these letters between an affianced couple in the late 1800s.
Benedictine University's John Jochman Album offers a fascinating glimpse into student life circa 1917-1923, at which time the suburban campus included both a high school and a college. John Jochman, who was a student at both St. Procopius College (as Benedictine University was then known) and St. Procopius Academy, was the owner of this photo album, which features photographs of the schools' students, staff, and campus, as well as teams, clubs, and outings. My favorite selections from the collection are the more casual portraits, those shots of students goofing around and just being kids.
The CARLI Annual Meeting will be held on November 1, 2013 at the Hilton Garden Inn Conference Center in Champaign. The sessions will feature research findings based on CARLI information or from CARLI libraries.
Monmouth College's freshman class of 1917
Are you effectively assessing your library instruction? Do the students in your classroom understand the concepts you are teaching? Does your instruction have an impact on student learning? These are all important questions that every instruction librarian should be asking. Many of us struggle with determining what to assess and the best way to do it. Finding adequate time to plan assessment activities in the midst of everything else we do can sometimes be overwhelming.
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The CARLI Annual Meeting will be held on November 1, 2013 at the Hilton Garden Inn Conference Center in Champaign. The sessions will feature research findings based on CARLI information or from CARLI libraries.
The CARLI Office is pleased to announce that the new index for the I-Share union catalog is now in place. The new index supports three major enhancements to the VuFind interface:
CARLI has completed reindexing of all VuFind local catalogs. The reindexing takes advantage of new data elements in RDA catalog records, and also of some previously unexploited data elements in AACR2 and older catalog records. We expect a new index for the I-Share union catalog to be ready within the next few days.
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.
This week’s Featured Image installment is a chorus of voices responding to this photograph of a pueblo ceramic cooking jar. Ellen and I invited people to take a look and tell us what they thought about it. Here are the results.
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