The lighting design for the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library recently was recognized with a 2011 GE Edison Award of Merit. Lighting designers Michael F. Rohde, Dorit Anderle, Stephanie Rock, Alan Al-Salihi, Magdalena Gomez and Helmut Jahn were recognized. The … Continue reading
Tech Treats: Online Technology Training ToolsThursday, May 17 3:00-5:00 p.m. TECHB@RRegenstein Library, Room 160 Refreshments will be served. Treat yourself to new technology. Drop by the TECHB@R in Regenstein Library to learn about the variety of online … Continue reading
Thursday, May 17th at 3:30 p.m. in the Joseph Regenstein Library, Room 464 Continue reading
The Nicholson Center for British Studies is pleased to present Jerome McGann speaking on “Philology in a New Key” on May 10 at 5 p.m. in the Special Collections Research Center, 1100 East 57th Street. McGann is the John Stewart … Continue reading
The Mansueto Library Grand Reading Room will open at 10 a.m. on Friday, May 11 due to a special event. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.
Texting China—Composition, Transmission, and Preservation of Pre-Modern Chinese Textual Materials: An International Symposium Celebrating the Life and Career of T.H. Tsien and the Opening of the University of Chicago’s Mansueto Library Continue reading
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art by University of Chicago art history professor Michael Camille (1958-2002), a work that looks at the playful and parodic images in … Continue reading
Wednesday, May 9, 10:00 am – 11:00 am; Regenstein Library, Room 127
This hands-on 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. Continue reading
May 7 – May 11 and May 14. 9:30 am – 4:30 pm
The Library is holding a sale of more than 9,000 duplicate and discarded volumes in Regenstein Library, Room A10. These include hardbacks, trade and scholarly paperbacks, multi-volume sets, maps and miscellaneous material. Continue reading
Wednesday, May 2, 10:00 am – 11:00 am; TECHB@R, Regenstein Library, Room 160
This hour-long workshop will cover the basic principles of graphic design and how to apply them in Microsoft Word and Apple Pages to make an eye-catching flyer for your next class or event. Continue reading
Tuesday, May 1, noon – 1:00 pm; TECHB@R, Regenstein Library, Room 160
This workshop will compare how EndNote, RefWorks, and Zotero – three of the most popular citation managers – allow you to save, share, and cite information. Continue reading
University of Chicago users now have access to Pratt’s Financial Services Law Library, which includes several leading treatises on banking law, along with relevant case law and federal and state statutes and regulations. The database consists of libraries on three major topics of … Continue reading
Faculty, students and research staff are invited join me and the Royal Society of Chemistry this Thursday, April 26 for a Library hosted RSC Roadshow event. Join us at the John Crerar Library for one or more events listed below. No need … Continue reading
Vedana Vaidhyanathan is our new Informatics Librarian. Below is her take on why informatics is relevant to the physical sciences: Informatics is the study and application of information technology to the arts, science and professions, and the study of its … Continue reading
Lens offers a Google-like search of the library catalog and results are ranked by relevance. Hence it is often an easier way to search the Library’s holdings than using the catalog interface. Lens also offers features that the library catalog … Continue reading
The Crerar Library is checking out AV equipment at our circulation desk for use in Crerar’s study rooms. The equipment is available on reserve for faculty, students, and staff with current borrowing privileges. If you are giving a presentation and … Continue reading
Two free seminars on using MATLAB, a programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numerical computation, will take place on Thursday, May 3, 2012 in the Kathleen A. Zar Room in the John Crerar Library. Join MathWorks engineers as they … Continue reading
Treat Yourself to New Technology Thursday, April 263:00 – 5:00 p.m.TECHB@R, Regenstein Library, Room 160 Refreshments will be served. Drop by the TECHB@R in Regenstein Library to learn about the variety of presentation tools available to make your next presentation … Continue reading
Mansueto Library will be closed for a special event from 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm today, Thursday, April 19. Mansueto will re-open at 10:00 pm and remain open until its usual closing time of 12:45 am.
Between April 25 and May 29, Library staff will be offering a limited number of behind-the-scenes tours of the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library exclusively to University of Chicago faculty, students and staff. In addition to the Grand Reading Room, … Continue reading
The John Crerar Library Atrium
April 16-October 12, 2012
Chicago’s rapid growth into a major metropolis coincided with the rise of trains as the form of transportation in America. Continue reading
Thursday, April 19, noon – 1:00 pm, TECHB@R
Learn about the wide variety of news tools available from your desktop, laptop, iPad, or mobile phone. Continue reading
Have you found that your students aren’t using the academic sources you expect for their assignments? Do your students seem to lack basic library research skills? TAs, instructors, and faculty are welcome to attend the Library’s upcoming workshop: Deepening Student … Continue reading
This weekend is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. On April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic, while on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City, struck an iceberg. It sank in the early morning on April 15. Over 1,500 passengers … Continue reading
Researchers come to the Special Collections Research Center looking for items of all kinds, from Aztec manuscripts, to fragments from Walt Whitman, to stereoscopic images of skin diseases, to a picture of former University of Chicago quarterback Milton “Mitt” Romney … Continue reading
