We are pleased to announce that the Special Collections Research Center blog has a new home. The University of Chicago Library has launched a News site that includes a dedicated section for Special Collections News. Please visit it for the…
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Following our move during the University’s Spring Break, Special Collections re-opened in our newly renovated spaces on Monday, March 28. The Reading Room, classrooms, and group studies have seen use from the first hour of our re-opening, and we look…
The Special Collections Research Center will be closed on Thursday and Friday, March 24 and 25, 2011, at the end of the University’s Spring Break, in order to move staff and equipment back to our newly renovated spaces. We will…
The deadline for applications for the Robert L. Platzman Memorial Fellowships at the University of Chicago Library has been extended to February 22, 2011, due to an incorrect email address in the initial posting. If you submitted an application and…
On March 28 Special Collections will reopen in its newly renovated spaces on the first floor of Regenstein Library. Below are photographs (taken by Patti Gibbons) of the spaces to show what work was done and preview what users will…
REMINDER The University of Chicago Library Robert L. Platzman Memorial Fellowships Deadline is February 14, 2011 The University of Chicago Library invites applications for short-term research fellowships for use during 2012. Any visiting researcher residing more than 100 miles from…
The Special Collections Research Center has been selected to receive the 2011 Paul Cornell Award presented by the Hyde Park Historical Society. The award is being granted based on Special Collection’s “extraordinary service to the Society” and its archival collections,…
Soaring Flight. . . Edward Chalmers Huffaker E. C. Huffaker was an engineer and aeronautical experimenter. He built gliders or early flying machines based on his observations of bird flight. Huffaker worked at one time under Samuel P. Langley at…
Special Collections has acquired two unique items of great interest for the study of manuscript production and illumination and the transition from handwritten manuscripts to printed books in the first century after the invention of printing. One of the new…
The Margaret Burton Collection The Margaret Burton Collection, recently inventoried by the University of Chicago Library, contains the papers of Margaret Burton, daughter of University president Ernest DeWitt Burton. Ms. Burton, apparently a well-traveled graduate of the University, was a…
At today’s event celebrating the completion of the Uncovering New Chicago Archives Project (UNCAP), a database providing cross-collection, cross-institutional searching of over 100 archival collections in African-American history and literature, modern poetry and the Chicago Jazz Archives will be launched.
Special Collections Closed Monday, December 13, 2010 As previous images on our blog indicate, the renovation work within the Special Collections Research Center continues to progress. Work relating to this construction will affect our reading room and necessitate our being…
The University of Chicago’s Special Collections Research Center has started a program to digitize selected archives and manuscript collections. The digital images are being made available via the online finding aid for each collection. This will recreate for the online…
Horses and equestrian sports are not commonly associated with an urban campus such as the University of Chicago, but as late as 1969 a riding club existed on campus, whose member lists can be found in the Office of Student…
Construction crews at the Mansueto Library continue work on both the ground and basement levels. Here are some photos from November 5 highlighting the latest progress. Just in case there might be any question as to what this will be,…
