Digitized Book of the Week

We have now digitized and made available all volumes in two major series published by UIUC's Graduate School of Library and Information Science--The Proceedings of the Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing and The Allerton Park Institute Proceedings. Sarah Shreeves, IDEALS Coordinator, and Tim Donohue, IDEALS research programmer, are now working to pull these digitized texts into IDEALS (Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship), UIUC's institutional repository that disseminates, preserves, and provides persistent and reliable access to the research and scholarship of faculty, staff, and students on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus. Below you'll find links to the IDEALS copies, which provides article level information and access. If you haven't been to the IDEALS website yet, check it out!

Literary texts in an electronic age : scholarly implications and library services (1994)
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Managers and missionaries : library services to children and young adults in the information age (c1989)
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http://www.archive.org/details/historicalencyclv2bate
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We have digitized over 60 early Illinois county histories so far at the Open Content Alliance scanning center at Oak Street. Newton Bateman's Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and Champaign County is one of a series he wrote where the first volume is a general encyclopedia of Illinois and the second volume is devoted to the history of a specific Illinois county. Bateman, a historian, was the superintendent of public instruction for the state of Illinois from 1859-1862 and president of Knox College, Galesburg, from 1875-1893. His description below of summers and winters in Champaign County capture "the mud, snow, and dreariness of winter, and the balmy loveliness of summer" so familiar to us all. A great source of photos and biographies of all the early Champaign and Urbana personages after whom so many local landmarks and streets are named (see below).

http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:prisonershidden00pack
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One hundred and forty-seven years ago today, on June 18, 1860, Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard was committed to the Jacksonville (Illinois) Insane Asylum by her husband Theophilus Packard, a strict Calvinist minister, because she had begun to express liberal religious beliefs that differed from his own. The Packards, who lived in Manteno, Illinois, in Kankakee County, had been married for 21 years and had six children. In 1860, Illinois state law permitted a husband to commit his wife to insane asylum without any court hearing or psychiatric examination. Mrs. Packard spent three years in the Jacksonville hospital. After her release, she separated from her husband and began to campaign for the rights of women and the mentally ill. She founded the Anti-Insane Asylum Society, published numerous books, including this one, and was instrumental in the 1867 passage of an Illinois law "Bill for the Protection of Personal Liberty," which guaranteed the right to a public hearing to anyone, including wives, who were accused of insanity.

See also related work Marital power exemplified in Mrs. Packard's trial, and self-defence from the charge of insanity, or, Three years' imprisonment for religious belief, by the arbitrary will of a husband : with an appeal to the government to so change the laws as to afford legal protection to married women (1870) from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

http://www.archive.org/details/practicalcorncul00ains
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