The Eagle (1971)
Ah, summer. On the surface, campus activity seems to slow to a crawl. A few faculty and students remain on campus for summer courses, but you can park closer to campus now, and you no longer worry about someone taking “your” favorite seat for eating lunch.
Anaga (1985)
Congratulations, graduates! The month of May marks the time when many colleges and universities will be holding their commencement activities.
Illowoco (1943)
April marks the beginning of baseball season, and these young women are ready for the next pitch. This photo from the 1943 yearbook for MacMurray College features players on the school’s softball team.
One page in this book in particular caught my eye: a sprawling, massive building towering above the trees on what appears to be the outskirts of town...
The Spectrum (1961)
Are you ready for March Madness? While college basketball fans eagerly await Selection Sunday, the young men on the 1961 Bloom Community College basketball team look ready to take on any challengers.
Quincy College-Gyrfalcon (1949)
This tranquil image comes from the 1949 yearbook for Quincy College, now Quincy University. The photo captures the bell tower of Francis Hall framed by trees laced with snow. Francis Hall was originally built between 1893-1898, and the building continues to form the backbone of the Quincy, Illinois campus today.
This month's installment features a summary of the Assessment Panel Presentation held in March 2014 as part of the IACRL Preconference. Thanks to all who attended, and the Instruction Committee looks forward to seeing you on June 18, 2014, for the Instruction Showcase at Illinois Valley Community College!
Instruction Assessment Panel and Breakout Session
Chicago telephone directory (1892)
“The Mail is Quick. The Telegraph is Quicker, but the LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE Is Instantaneous and you don’t have to wait for an answer.” So reads the footnote advertisement in the Chicago Telephone Directory from 1892. It is hard to imagine, in these days when email, texting, and Skype are all everyday terms, a time when using a telephone was a novelty and considered the height of convenience.
In this document from the Swedish-American Historical Book Collection at North Park University, Swede Rosalie Roos writes of her travels in the southern United States during the early 1850s. She used the trip to test the strength of her independent spirit, as well as the American Dream. Her diaries and letters home over the course of the four years spent in South Carolina were forgotten for many years but discovered and extracts published in the late 20th century by her granddaughter.
Overwhelmed by the two drafts of the new Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education that will update the current standards from 2000? >Read on to find a quick list of links to discover what other librarians are saying on the subject and join in on the discussion.
