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
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
Moving with memories: Hyde Park’s Seminary Co-Op Bookstore gets a documentary exhibition
Newcity – May 8, 2013 Continue reading
This mini exhibit explores the development and characteristics of censorship in Tsarist Russia, the Soviet Union and today’s Russian Federation. The exhibit (in 3 cases) is located in the Second Floor Reading Room of the Joseph Regenstein Library and will run from May through August 2013. Continue reading
A mini exhibit commemorating the life and work of Søren Kierkegaard on the 200th anniversary of his birth displayed in the Fourth Floor Reading Room of the Joseph Regenstein Library. Continue reading
When: May 13 – May 17 and May 209:30 am – 4:30 pm Where: Regenstein Library, Room A-10 (via 1st Floor lobby)1100 East 57th Street Chicago, IL 60637 Description: The Library is holding a sale of more than 6,000 duplicate and discarded volumes in … Continue reading
Dr. Paul Serrano of the Department of Biology will be giving a talk entitled Visualizing Fossils: Looking Inside and Making them Move May 7 from 3:00pm-4:30pm in the Kathleen A. Zar room of the John Crerar Library. Computed-tomographic imaging has … Continue reading
Take a tour of the exhibition “The Seminary Co-op Documentary Project: Capturing the Bookstore’s Distinctive Character and History” with co-curator Jasmine Kwong, AB’06. Continue reading
Visit the Special Collections Research Center to view R. Crumb’s “Early Jazz Greats,” a set of 36 trading cards featuring original images by Crumb and short biographies of early Jazz musicians. Continue reading
Library Society Lecture – Censorship and Omnicensorship: Controlling the Text in Russia
By Marianna Tax Choldin, Lab’59, AB’62, AM’67, PhD’79
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 – 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm Continue reading
University of Chicago faculty and students interested in using biotechnology information tools and resources can ask questions, schedule consultations, or arrange training sessions with Vedana Vaidhyanathan from the John Crerar Library. Vedana, the Biomedical Reference Librarian and Informatics Specialist at … Continue reading
Crystara was commissioned in 1984 for the newly built Crerar Library. Designed by artist John David Mooney, and constructed of aluminum and Waterford Crystal, the 30 by 12 foot sculpture fills much of the three story atrium of Crerar. The crystals … Continue reading
National DNA Day is Thursday April 25, 2013. It commemorates the day in 1953 when James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin and colleagues published papers in the journal Nature on the structure of DNA. Also, on this day … Continue reading
Underneath the glass bubble
Chicago Maroon – April 16, 2013 Continue reading
Catch a screening of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, starring Gene Wilder, and stay for delicious science demonstrations. The 100-minute film, a 1971 musical adaptation of the 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, will be … Continue reading
April 25, noon – 1:00 pm; May 15, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
TECHB@R, Regenstein Library, Room 160
EndNote Web is a citation management tool available through the Library that helps you collect, organize, and share citations from library databases and catalogs. EndNote Web also helps you format your papers, creating bibliographies and footnotes in a wide variety citation styles. Continue reading
April 23, noon – 1:00 pm; May 13, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
TECHB@R, Regenstein Library, Room 160
This workshop will compare EndNote and Zotero by demonstrating how to save, share, and cite information. Continue reading
The autograph letters, documents, and engravings of the Butler-Gunsaulus Collection have been digitized and are available online via the collection’s finding aid. Presented to the University of Chicago Library in 1910 by Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus, a preeminent collector of rare … Continue reading
University of Chicago alumni are now able to access five important research databases and thousands of publications from any off-campus computer with an Internet connection. These electronic resources for alumni are being provided by the University of Chicago Alumni Association … Continue reading
The problem has been reported and we hope to have access restored as soon as possible. You can access journal articles directly through the OVID interface. Thank you very much for your patience.
Researchers campus wide can now access the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History online via the D’Angelo Law Library. Continue reading
Exhibition Dates: April 22 – July 13, 2013
Celebrating over 50 years at the center of the University of Chicago’s and Hyde Park’s intellectual and cultural life, the renowned Seminary Co-op Bookstore has moved up from its legendary basement location and into a newly transformed space designed by Chicago Architects Stanley Tigerman and Margaret McCurry. Curators Jasmine Kwong and Megan E. Doherty present their documentation of the Co-op’s history through a selection of photography, interviews, artifacts and memorabilia. Continue reading
![Illustration from Cassell's Household Guide, Being a Complete Encyclopaedia of Domestic and Social Economy... London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, [187-] Vol. 2. Rare Book Collection. The University of Chicago Library](http://news.lib.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/5.cassells_household_guide-78x120.jpg)
Exhibition Dates: April 22 – July 13, 2013
How does one roast a fawn or properly set a dinner table for twelve? For centuries, people have been documenting and decoding the vast array of knowledge associated with domestic life, assembling cooking and household guides to assist with the tasks of daily living. Not merely collections of recipes and how-to instructions, these guides also document cultural patterns and give insight into the development of modern-day kitchen and cooking practices. This exhibition, drawn primarily from the Rare Books Collection, provides a sampling of European and American cookbooks and domestic manuals from court chefs of the 15th century to cooking icons of the 20th century. Continue reading
In 1893, visitors to the World’s Columbian Exposition were introduced to a form of dance not seen before in the U.S. On the Street in Cairo section of the midway, dancers performed the first bellydance seen in the U.S., a … Continue reading
April 11, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm; April 15, noon – 1:00 pm
TECHB@R, Regenstein Library, Room 160
In this session, we will review the procedures for submitting your dissertation electronically. Continue reading
![Illustration from Cassell's Household Guide, Being a Complete Encyclopaedia of Domestic and Social Economy... London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, [187-] Vol. 2. Rare Book Collection. The University of Chicago Library](http://news.lib.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/5.cassells_household_guide-52x80.jpg)
