CARLI News

The election and appointment process for new members of the CARLI Board of Directors has been completed. New Board members elected to 3-year terms beginning July 1, 2013 are Brian Beecher (Elgin Community College), Mary Case (University of Illinois at Chicago), and Scott Walter (DePaul University). Board members elected to one-year terms are Njambi Kamoche (William Rainey Harper College), and Patrick Dawson (Northern Illinois University). 

May 17, 2013
By: Margaret Chambers

From Student Publications (Western Illinois University) in CARLI Digital Collections.

The front page of the May 12, 1970 Western Catalyst details the Western Illinois University student protests the previous week, precipitated by the fatal shooting of four Kent State University student anti-Vietnam War demonstrators.

 

 

 

 

 

May 15, 2013
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Alexander Street Press, an electronic publisher of award-winning online collections and video for scholarly research, teaching, and learning, has forged a landmark agreement with the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) to provide perpetual access to academic online video collections for 124 of the group's participating governing member institutions.

May 10, 2013
By: Margaret Chambers

From Society of Typographic Arts (University of Illinois at Chicago) in CARLI Digital Collections.

Victor Hammer created this keepsake specimen for “the Chicago people” (i.e., the Society of Typographic Arts) in 1946 as thanks to the society’s members for funding the completion and casting of his American Uncial typeface.

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 9, 2013
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From Congressman Frank Annunzio Photo Collection (University of Illinois at Chicago in CARLI Digital Collections.

In some ways this image of Congressman Frank Annunzio, Richard J. Daley and Pat Nixon marching in a 1972 parade in Chicago is iconographic political history.

May 1, 2013
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From Slide Collection (Lewis University) in CARLI Digital Collections.

Vintage photographs were so much cooler in the pre-Instagram era. Look how marvelously red-hued this slide has become with age.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

April 24, 2013
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From Regional Maps Collection (Western Illinois University) in CARLI Digital Collections.

Maps are great candidates for digital presentation. For one, say you have a large, table-sized, map – digitize it and presto! now it’s a manageable size. Then digitization enables stepwise magnification at the clicks of a mouse button. Plus maps are beautiful.

 

 

 

 

April 17, 2013
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From C. William Brubaker Collection (University of Illinois at Chicago) in CARLI Digital Collections.

This image connects the lives of three men, with a punchline that’s more tragic than comic.

 

 

 

April 10, 2013
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April 5, 2013
By: Margaret Chambers

From From The H.E. Nutt Papers  (VanderCook College of Music) in CARLI Digital Collections.

H.E. Nutt taught music teachers. He developed curricula for VanderCook in the early days of instrumental music education. The papers in this collection exude Nutt’s enthusiasm for his topic, one could even say he was nuts about it (WAH-wah).

 

 

 

 

 

April 3, 2013
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