This is a guide map for the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 (AKA the World’s Columbian Exposition). I decided to search across the CARLI digital collections and see what I could find on it. A sampling follows.
This is a guide map for the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 (AKA the World’s Columbian Exposition). I decided to search across the CARLI digital collections and see what I could find on it. A sampling follows.
Here is a selection of videos designed to teach library staff or users how to care for materials. While many of the pointers are the same, the ways in which the information is presented varies widely.
Written by David Bell, Eastern Illinois University, CARLI Preservation Committee member
This image reminds me of a poem by T.E. Hulme:
"Above the Dock"
Above the quiet dock in midnight,
Tangled in the tall mast’s corded height,
Hangs the moon. What had seemed so far away
Is but a child’s balloon, forgotten after play.
Decreta conciliorum Baltimorensium. (1865)
Wabash Valley College currently fields five varsity athletics squads, one of which, the men's basketball team, won a NJCAA national championship in 2001 and featured two future NBA players. Fifty years ago, however, the school's athletics programs were more humble. In the 1963 edition of The Oubache, Wabash Valley College yearbook, the men's basketball team is followed a page later by what appears to be the only other organized athletic endeavor at the school, bowling. Pictures of bowlers appear repeatedly in the yearbook, and it seems to have been a popular activity at the school.
CSF students show off their costumes at the Halloween Sophomore Party held on October 31, 1936.
Recently, my 10 year old nephew showed me his book report in the form of a board game, which made me think about how dry adult education tends to feel in comparison to some of the fun ways children learn. However, recent research indicates that creative play encourages learning, even for adults. We tend to view children as not-quite-formed adults who need coddling. Flipping this belief, Kets de Vries (2012) argues that “better and more respective teaching would follow if … [instructors] thought of adults as atrophied children” (p. 18).
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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.