CRL's FOCUS on Global Resources: "2016 Award for Access"
Tracy J. Seneca is the recipient of the 2016 CRL Primary Source Award for Access. Documentation on the range of political and cultural experiences in the sprawling metropolis of Chicago is extensive, making a tool that offers centralized access to a heterogeneous group of archival collections an inv… Read More >
American Libraries: "All Together Now: Libraries collaborate to create history"
Local histories are easily explored at most libraries. Government documents and records, newspaper photos and clippings, film and video footage, and assorted ephemera nestled in stacks and special collections can create vivid snapshots of a community’s past. But even the most thorough collection may… Read More >
PRWeb: "The Chicago Architectural Photographing Company Collection Is Now Available in the THS Online Catalog"
The Theatre Historical Society of America, home to the American Theatre Architecture Archives, is working to bring more of its collections online, increasing access by scholars, theatres, professionals and enthusiasts. The Chicago Architectural Photographing Co. (CAPC) was organized in 1885 to serve… Read More >
ILA Reporter: "It Takes a City: Chicago Collections Brings Collaboration to the Next Level"
There are few cities that support their libraries, archives, and museums the way Chicago does. Chicago playwright David Mamet famously referred to the Chicago Public Library as his “alma mater,” and Chicagoans have enjoyed several celebrations of our cultural heritage in recent months, including Chi… Read More >
Inside Higher Ed: "Out of the Stacks"
If you take the books out of a library, is it still a library? That’s the question the Georgia Institute of Technology pondered -- and eventually answered in the affirmative -- when administrators, faculty members and librarians there in 2013 began to define their vision of what the institute’s libr… Read More >
Chicago Tribune: "Maps of the city as varied as its neighborhoods"
Last Tuesday I wrote about visual artist Tim Anderson rediscovering a painting he had made 15 years ago of the city of Chicago containing, to his calculations and research, some 198 different neighborhoods. He found the painting and had it professionally photographed, had copies made and began selli… Read More >