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” email list.
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” email list.
In this special guest feature, a voice from the past muses on time, beauty, and Fight Club in the context of Bentley’s snowflake photography.
I'll get to the featured image eventually. But first: I never thought about it before, but someone has to choose a college's school colors! The inaugural issue of the Kishwaukee College yearbook documents this process. The colors green and gold selected that first year still represent the Kougars today. Student Rita Love designed the winning college crest.
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.
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.
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: