- Effective August 1, overdue interlibrary loan material will accrue fines at the rate of $3/day per volume. The replacement fee for lost interlibrary loan items is $125/volume. For additional information, contact interlibrary-loan@lib.uchicago.edu.
- Please return all overdue books and pay all library charges by Monday, July 25. Current or former students who owe the Library $100 or more on this date will be restricted at the University Registrar. This will prevent future enrollment and access to other University services (including transcript requests) until these charges are paid. For additional information, click here.
- Are you doing research at other libraries this summer? Check a listing of institutions with which the Library has reciprocal agreements that may assist you in your work.
- The Special Collections Research Center will be undergoing an extensive environmental control project this summer. During construction, the collections will be completely inaccessible and the Center will be closed to researchers. Details and dates of closing will be posted as soon as this information is known. Please contact the Center if you are planning a research visit for the summer or early fall.
- Congratulations to Tyjuan Edwards, a Library staff member, on receiving the 2005 Marlene F. Richman Award for Excellence and Dedication in Service to Students! For more details, click here.
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- The John Crerar Foundation Science Writing Prizes for College Students have been awarded to Stephen Brusatte for his essay "Engineers of our own Disaster: Dike Construction, Land Reclamation, and their Hidden Consequences" and to Bihui Li for his essay "Kin".
- The T.Kimball Brooker Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting has been awarded to 4th-year student Benjamin Troffatter for "INIM.MES, AMATU, uddar ("Words [Sumerian], Words [Akkadian], Words [Hittite]": A Collection of the Languages and Literatures of the Ancient Near East with Historical, Cultural and Archaeological Supplements."
- The Spring issue of LIBRA, (LIBrary Reports and Announcements), a newsletter written for the faculty and University community, is now available online. LIBRA is also published in print form. University community members who would like to be added to the hard copy mailing list, or who have questions or comments about an issue of LIBRA, please contact libra@lib.uchicago.edu.
- Faculty and all currently registered students are eligible for borrowing privileges from the JKM Library at 1100 E. 55th Street. The JKM Library supports the missions and programs of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and the McCormick Theological Seminary.
- Starting Spring Quarter, the Ask a Librarian Service Desk at Regenstein Library will be open on Saturdays from Noon-5:00 p.m.
- The Special Collections Research Center now opens at 10:30 a.m. on the 3rd Tuesday of each month. Accordingly, during Spring Quarter, the Center will open at 10:30 a.m. on April 19th and May 17th. For more information, view Library hours.
- In order to allow you to discover, access and use library resources efficiently, Microsoft Word was added to all of the Library's public access workstations as a pilot project for Spring and Summer Quarters. Please send your comments about this pilot project to Jeffry Archer, Head, Reference and Business Information Center at jdarcher@uchicago.edu.
- The University Library has begun a pilot project with NSIT’s Learning Technology to provide direct links to course reserve materials within Chalk, the University's course management tool.
- Catalog users can now locate the Library's Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) language materials by selecting keyword searches and inputting search terms in CJK characters. Click here for instructions.
- The East Asian Collection, recognized as one of the most comprehensive and distinctive East Asian collections in North America, recently redesigned its web site.
- Steps for the Future, a series of 25 videos on AIDS in Southern Africa, was recently added to the library's collection.
- 2/1/05: Black Short Fiction contains approximately 760 stories and folktales by 19 African, African American, and Caribbean authors. When complete this collection should have approximately 8000 works of short fiction.
- 2/1/05: North American Women's Drama contains 715 plays by 152 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. When complete, the collection will include more than 1,500 plays, of which some 20% have never been published before. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
- 1/27/05: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founded at the University in 1945, is now available online to the University community from the first issue up to the current issue. The digital archive allows you to search, browse, and download articles or entire issues in PDF format and view them exactly as they appeared in print.
- 1/17/05: AnthroSource is now available to the University community. This resource is a complete electronic archive of all the journals published by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) through 2003. It also contains current issues for 11 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications.
- 1/17/05: Faculty, students and staff are now eligible for borrowing privileges from the Chicago Theological Seminary's Hammond Library located at 58th and University Avenue. For details, click here.
- 1/17/05: Mintel Marketing Intelligence provides market research reports on consumer markets in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. These detailed analyses of consumer markets include statistics on market size and segmentation, key players and demographics of market segments and product users. Mintel's analysis of markets usually includes information on supply structure and brand level sales information that is otherwise difficult to find. A personal profile must be created in order to conduct searches in the database.
- 1/17/05: Learn (more) about EndNote, a bibliographic management database, Thursday, January 27 in the Crerar Library Board. A basic class will be held from 9 a.m. to noon; a class on connection files and filters from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m; and a class on styles from 2:45 p.m. to 4 p.m. For additional information, click here. To R.S.V.P., please contact Barbara Kern by January 26.
- 1/11/05: New search limits for Language, Location and Format have
been added to the Library catalog. Limits can be applied at the beginning
of any keyword search (click the Advanced subtab from the Main Catalog page)
or to summary search results. Users can now:
- find works in Bosnian or Croatian;
- limit a search to titles only in Regenstein, Stacks;
- restrict results to titles that are considered books or textual material.
- 1/7/05: The Library joins the University's commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. on January 10-17th with several book displays highlighting materials in our collection on African American culture and history. For a list of displays in Crerar and Regenstein, visit: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/using/instruct/mlk.html. For more information on the University's week-long celebration, "M.L.K: Living the Legecy", visit http://mlk.uchicago.edu.