What's New Archive 2007

• The University has joined in a collective agreement to allow scanning of selected works in the Library's collections as part of the Google Book Project.
• Power to the people! The electrical work at Crerar is finished and additional outlets have been installed on the first, second, and third floors.
• Read about the Chicago Jazz Archive's treasures in the also in the Chicago Maroon.
• Read about a recent crossword puzzle competition held in the Special Collections Research Center to promote the exhibit The Meaning of Dictionaries.
  
• Congratulations to Eric Chan and Bihui Li, the winners of the 2007 John Crerar Foundation Science Writing Prize. Eric received the first prize for his paper "Climate Change and Coral Bleaching". Bihui received second prize for "Colliding Interests: The Future of Particle Physics".
  
• Read about the University Library-Faculty Partnerships in Uncovering Hidden Collections.
• The University of Chicago edition of the LibX plugin for Firefox is now available. It provides direct access to the Library Catalog and e-journals from the web browser. More Information.
  
• Read an Interview with Beth Bidlack, the Bibliographer for Religion and Philosophy.
  
• You can now export records from the Library Catalog directly into RefWorks. Learn more.
  
• Read about the Library Student Resource Group.
• Some of the Library's Sheet maps from Chicago and Asia have recently been digitized.
• You can now send double-sided prints from any of the library computers in Regenstein to the 1st floor network print station.
• The Library has recently acquired the entire Criterion Collection of classic and contemporary films on DVD.
  
• You can now print from your laptop to the vended network printers in the libraries after installing free software.
  
• Read about the Regenstein Library Addition Project: "Under One Roof," from the University's 2006 Annual Report.
  
• Marooned on a Desert Island: University faculty describe the one book they would take with them if stranded on a desert island.
  
• Read about creating the modern law library in "Renovating D'Angelo".
  
• Read about the Library Student Resource Group now being formed.
  
• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has funded UNCAP (Uncovering New Chicago Archives Project), a Library-faculty-student collaboration to expose hidden archival collections and to create an extensible technical infrastructure for seamless discovery of collections across a wide range of formats and institutions.  UNCAP expands the work of Mapping the Stacks, under the direction of Prof. Jacqueline Goldsby, and includes processing the Chicago Jazz Archive and contemporary poetry collections with guidance from Profs. Travis Jackson and Bob von Hallberg.
• The Library is pleased to announce that members of the University of Chicago community now have access to the Chicago Manual of Style.
• Read about the University Library, "Still Central After All These Years", in the October University of Chicago Magazine.
• The Regenstein circulating video and DVD film collection is now located on the 4th floor.
• Folios between fAC-fAZ and fHB-fHG are now on the A-level. These folios have been moved from the B-level to free up space for growing collections. Here is a listing of call number locations within Regenstein Library.
• The University has acquired the remaining professional papers from the the estate of the late Saul Bellow. Read more about it.
• New pages: "Chicago in the 1890's" and "Social Scientists Map Chicago" make available scans of selected maps held in the Library's Map Collection.

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