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 Pennsylvania, Princeton, Yale, and the Center for Research Libraries as the University of Chicago Library joins the Borrow Direct partnership. Continue reading
Attendees of the American Library Association’s 137th Annual Conference in Chicago are welcome to visit the University of Chicago’s campus libraries from June 26 to July 3. Tours of the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library will be offered daily to … Continue reading
Library fines will increase starting June 24, the first day of summer quarter. This is the first increase to Library fines since 1996. Overdue fines for recalled and interlibrary loan items will increase from $3 per day to $5 per … Continue reading
Friday, June 21, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm; online session
This live, online webinar will show you how to get started using the citation management tool, Zotero. With a single click, Zotero allows you to save citations and create bibliographies in standard citation styles, including APA, Chicago, & MLA.
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Thursday, June 20, noon – 1:00 pm; online session
Citation managers are powerful, time-saving tools that help you manage your research. This live, online webinar will compare EndNote, EndNote Web, and Zotero by demonstrating how to save, share, and cite information. Continue reading
A glimpse of where Chicago hockey was in 1934
New York Times – June 12, 2013 Continue reading
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 Pennsylvania, Princeton, Yale, and the Center for Research Libraries as the University of Chicago Library joins the Borrow Direct partnership. Continue reading
Program: Brunch with Books: Sound as History
Date: Sunday, June 9
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Place: Alumni House, Klowden Family Library, 5555 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago
Price: $20. Register at the door. Continue reading
Members of the University of Chicago community now have access to all ten digitized collections published by the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC). This purchase supports a growing curriculum of Tibetan Studies at the University. Continue reading
The Special Collections exhibitions gallery will be closed on June 20th and June 21st for construction work related to the Library’s new multipurpose room. The gallery will resume its normal hours on Monday, June 24th, at 9:00am. We regret any … Continue reading
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 online for the first time. Visit the site to explore the literary, cultural, artistic, athletic and social milieu of Chicago from 1926 to 1935. Continue reading
Working on your B.A. paper over the summer? Whether you are on campus or away from Chicago, the Library is available to help you in several ways. Continue reading
Series III of the International Association for Cultural Freedom (IACF) papers will be temporarily unavailable for research beginning Monday, June 3, 2013. The series will be closed in order to allow the materials to be re-housed and the boxes renumbered. … Continue reading
To support students preparing for finals, Crerar, Mansueto and Regenstein will extend weekend building hours Friday, June 7 and Saturday, June 8. Continue reading
On Monday, May 27, Eckhart and SSA libraries will be closed for the Memorial Day holiday. Crerar, D’Angelo Law, Mansueto, and Regenstein libraries will be open during their regular building hours. The All-Night Study Space on the 1st Floor of Regenstein will … Continue reading
A new acquisition by the Library retells classic fairy tales in graphic novel form with a twist, no words included. Continue reading
Workshop led by Dr. Birali Runesha in the John Crerar Library’s Kathleen A. Zar Room on Tuesday, May 21 from 1:00-3:00 PM This hands-on workshop will provide a basic introduction to parallel programming using the MPI message passing library. It will … Continue reading
Wednesday, May 22, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm; online
This live, online webinar will show you how to get started using the citation management tool, Zotero. Continue reading
Wednesday, May 22, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Center for Teaching and Learning, Gates-Blake 133
In this program, University of Chicago librarians will highlight ways you can integrate library research instruction into your courses to promote the acquisition of the skills necessary to complete research assignments. Continue reading
Monday, May 20, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm; online
This live, online webinar will compare three citation managers — EndNote, EndNote Web, and Zotero — by demonstrating how to save, share, and cite information. Continue reading
Do you own an iPad? Do you read scholarly journals? Then BrowZine might be a great tool for you! The Library has arranged for a subscription to the Browzine app for all University of Chicago users. BrowZine assists users by … Continue reading
This past January, the Library launched a “Book a Room” service, which allows faculty, students and staff to book meeting and study rooms in the Library. The online reservation system provides an overview of all available spaces and allows users … Continue reading
Location: Crerar Library Computer Classroom. Learn how to use the bibliographic software EndNote. Topics covered include creating and managing libraries, importing references from online databases, importing and managing PDFs and creating formatted bibliographies and citations in Microsoft Word. Registration is … Continue reading
On Wednesday May 15th from 1pm to 5pm the John Crerar Library will be hosting a representative from BIOBASE. In a four hour tutorial Dr. Alexander Kaplun will be teaching about BIOBASE PROTEOME and BIOBASE TRANSFAC. BIOBASE PROTEOME is a … Continue reading
Dr. Douglas Rudd will be presenting Introduction to Debugging and Optimization on Midway on Tuesday May 14th from 1pm to 3pm in the Crerar Library Kathleen Zar Room of the John Crerar Library. This workshop will give a brief introduction … Continue reading
May 17, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm; TECHB@R, Regenstein Library, Room 160
This workshop will introduce some of the key functions of Zotero, a free citation manager that allows you to save citation information while searching and browsing the Web and to create customized bibliographies in standard citation styles. Continue reading
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