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 closed to the public on Monday, December…
The University of Chicago Library recently completed an inventory of the Popular Literature Collection, a large collection of approximately 2,000 paperback novels and science fiction magazines. The collection represents many of the major paperback publishers of the 20th century, including…
The University of Chicago Library has completed full cataloging of the Lincke’sche Leihbibliothek, sometimes referred to as the Lincke Collection. In 1930, the Library purchased from Otto Harrassowitz a collection of 6,990 titles in 14,110 volumes that had been part…