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CARLI News

Greg MacAyeal, Curator of the Music Library, Northwestern University

November 28, 2016
By: Elizabeth Clarage


From  I & M Canal Photographs, 1859-1948 (Lewis University) in CARLI Digital Collections.

Canal laborers break stones to make way for the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, which connects the Chicago River and the Des Plaines River. When it opened in 1900, the canal provided a waterway from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River.

November 18, 2016
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From Chicago Urban League Photos (University of Illinois at Chicago) in CARLI Digital Collections.

No doubt is Mr. Cub smiling down on the Cubs victory parade today!

 

 

November 4, 2016
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From: Loyola University Chicago

St. Ignatius Loyolan (1908)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 28, 2016
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Register by November 10 for the 2016 CARLI Annual Meeting and Directors′ Meeting

The 2016 CARLI Annual Meeting will be held Friday, November 18 at the I Hotel and Conference Center in Champaign. Staff at any CARLI member library are invited to attend. 

October 27, 2016
By: Michelle Haake


From Gallery 400 Collection (University of Illinois at Chicago) in CARLI Digital Collections.

This lithograph by Antonia Contro is featured in celebration of the 108th anniversary of the Cubs' World Series win.
 

October 14, 2016
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Register Now for the 2016 CARLI Annual Meeting and Directors′ Meeting

The 2016 CARLI Annual Meeting will be held Friday, November 18 at the I Hotel and Conference Center in Champaign. Staff at any CARLI member library are invited to attend. The meeting will feature an overview of several of the 2016 CARLI Committee projects in the morning and an interactive small group discussion about your ideas for the CARLI 2020 Strategic Plan in the afternoon.

September 29, 2016
By: Michelle Haake


From Daily Life Along the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad (Newberry Library) in CARLI Digital Collections.

This photo of a little girl reading a comic book comes to you from the Daily Life Along the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad Collection from Newberry Library. In honor of the American Library Assocation's Banned Books Week (September 25-October 1, 2016), this image is a celebration of reading banned books!

September 27, 2016
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Midwest Disaster Types

Information for Libraries and Their Collections

Melanie R. Schoenborn, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and
Joseph (Joe)Feigl, III, LIS graduate student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

​​Printable pamphlet (8.5" x 11", trifold)

September 27, 2016
By: Nicole Swanson



From Historical Photo Collection (North Park University) in CARLI Digital Collections.

It's football season again and what better way to celebrate than a photo that illustrates the rough tumble ways the game was played back in the day.

 
 
 

September 16, 2016
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