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Rare Chinese texts spark collaboration
“Texting China,” an international symposium held in Mansueto and Regenstein libraries, provided a rare opportunity for scholars of Chinese texts to exchange information with library curators and...
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‘Transcending Tradition’ exhibit extended
“Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German-Speaking Academic Culture” opens on October 4 with a program at the John Crerar Library. The exhibition presents the life and works of Jewish...
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UChicago, NU launch UNCAP archives website
The University of Chicago Library and Northwestern University Library are pleased to announce the launch of an innovative collaboration to support research in primary archival sources. Uncovering New...
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Preserving endangered Urdu periodicals
The University of Chicago has been awarded a £52,247 grant from the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme, funded by Arcadia, for the digitization and preservation of 60 rare and endangered...
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‘Swiss Treasures’ exhibition closes Dec. 14
Situated in the heart of Europe, Switzerland has long been a center for Biblical studies and transformative contributions to Judeo-Christian culture. The exhibition Swiss Treasures: From Biblical...
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Custom library instruction for science courses
The physical sciences librarians at the Crerar Library are pleased to provide in-person instruction sessions on the use of our resources and on the literature research process for your class research...
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Book a Room pilot for group studies begins Jan. 7
Student groups looking for a place to work on problem sets together should find the task a bit easier this quarter, thanks to the Library’s new Book a Room system. The new online system allows UChicago...
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Kuali library systems project wins Mellon grant
The Kuali Open Library Environment received a $750,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop an open, community-based library software system. UChicago Library is playing an integral...
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Women’s zines make life an open book
“My Life is an Open Book,” the current exhibition in Special Collections, focuses on personal zines produced by women from the 1990s to the present. The Library began collecting Chicago zines over the...
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Faculty, Library collaborate on Collegium projects
The Library is collaborating with faculty on three of the inaugural projects of the Neubauer Family Collegium for Culture and Society by providing staff expertise, access to current collections and...
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Jazz Age ‘Chicagoan’ lives again online
The Chicagoan—a Jazz Age magazine fashioned after The New Yorker—enters a new era as the University of Chicago Library launches a website that makes digitized copies of nearly every issue available...
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Chicago enters borrowing agreement with Ivies
University of Chicago faculty, students and staff will soon be able to borrow circulating materials from the libraries of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT, the University of...
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Get books from the Ivies: try Borrow Direct beta
UChicago faculty, students and staff can now get books quickly from Ivy League and MIT libraries through Borrow Direct beta. Test this new service to obtain items more rapidly than you would through...
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Souvenirs of old Chicago unveiled at Regenstein
“Souvenirs! Get Your Souvenirs!”–the latest exhibition at the Special Collections Research Center–provides a glimpse into the World’s Fairs of 1893 and 1933 by displaying a wide array of Chicago...
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Borrow Direct from the Ivies
UChicago faculty, students and staff can now borrow books and other circulating materials from the libraries of Ivy League universities and MIT through Borrow Direct. Items will be delivered in...
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‘A different way of learning about history’
Ph.D. candidate Christopher Dingwall explored race and consumer culture as the curator of the current Special Collections exhibition, “Race and the Design of American Life: African Americans in...
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Homer in Print: Transmission and Reception
For nearly 3,000 years, the Homeric epics have been among the best-known texts of Western civilization. The exhibition “Homer in Print” illustrates what we can learn when we look beyond the stories to...
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Library begins acting on faculty survey results
The Library invited faculty, emeriti, postdocs, and other academic appointees to complete a survey assessing Library offerings. Of the 645 individuals who responded, 89% indicated that the Library’s...
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UChicago law faculty scholarship united online
Law librarians and communicators collaborated to build Chicago Unbound, a repository that unites the rich record of scholarship produced at the Law School in one online platform. More than 5000...
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Beta test the new Library Catalog
The Library encourages members of the University of Chicago community to participate in a beta test of the new Library Catalog. Visit catalog.lib.uchicago.edu and leave us your feedback. Continue...
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