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From Bowen Country Club (University of Illinois at Chicago) in CARLI Digital Collections.

Though Illinois was spared from the recent Snowpocalypse that buried our neighbors to the East, we can still look forward to spring, right?
 
 
 
 

January 25, 2016
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Effect of Quality of Surface and Color upon Absorption of Light
From: Illinois Institute of Technology

Alternative titles for this post:

  • Ceci n'est pas un yearbook!
  • When Serendipity Strikes Too Late
  • Practical Applications for Digitized Stuff (a could-have-been case study)

 

 

January 15, 2016
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From Japanese Lantern Slides (Dominican University) in CARLI Digital Collections.

Dominican University has published a wonderful collection of lantern slides from the late 19th century depicting scenes from Japan.
 
 

January 8, 2016
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From Patricia Ellen Ricci Posters (Dominican University) in CARLI Digital Collections.

If it's life-affirming hope and optimism you seek as we transition from one year to the next, look no further than this new digital collection of posters by Patricia Ellen Ricci. (And if not, take a look anyway.)
 
 

 

 

 

December 18, 2015
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CARLI Holiday Hours

The CARLI office will be closed from December 24 through January 1 and will reopen on January 4. ILDS will not provide delivery service on December 24, December 25, December 31 or January 1. Business will resume on January 4.

December 17, 2015
By: Michelle Haake

From: Black Hawk College

East Wahian (1978)

With the release of the new film next week, I am jumping on the Star Wars bandwagon for this month’s featured digitized book from the CARLI Internet Archive collections.

 
 
 

 

 

December 11, 2015
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From Chicago - Photographic Images of Change (University of Illinois at Chicago) in CARLI Digital Collections.

 
A recent Chicago transplant learns about historic images of the Chicago Christmas Tree transplant.  

December 10, 2015
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Recordings and Slides from CARLI Annual Meeting Now Available

Over 130 people attended the CARLI Annual Meeting in Champaign on Friday, November 13 to celebrate 35 Years of I-Share and 10 Years of CARLI.  If you missed the meeting, or want to see any of it again, visit the event page to find a link to the recordings of the morning and afternoon sessions, as well as links to the speakers’ slide presentations. 

November 20, 2015
By: Michelle Haake

From Barbara A. Cooke Sheet Music Collection (University of St. Francis) in CARLI Digital Collections.

Never let it be said that these Featured Image posts aren't educational. I hadn't even heard of George M. Cohan before making this pick. Fortunately, that newfound piece of knowledge, along with a few other reasons I thought of, spared us all from an ill-advised quasi-limerick in which I attempted to rhyme "lady named Mary" with "extraordinary" and "SIUE" with "CCC."
 
 

November 20, 2015
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​Film–whether motion picture film, cut sheet film, microfilm, (either microform or microfiche), and amateur film – is generally at great risk in most collections. These four kinds of film come in three major materials: nitrate, acetate and polyester. Of these three, most attention will be paid to acetate because it is fragile and common. In contrast, the earliest of these materials, nitrate, while fragile and flammable, is relatively rare. The most recently developed material of film, polyester, though common, is a very stable material and requires less attention.

The four major steps to film preservation are locate the film, identify its material, assess its condition, and choose a preservation storage method based on best practices for condition of film and institutional feasibility. Unfortunately, none of these is easy.  

November 19, 2015
By: Elizabeth Clarage

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