he following items are needed to enhance collections throughout the University Library System. To help us purchase one or more of these items with your gift, please call (217) 333-5683.
Good sewing skills for The Rare Book & Manuscript Library are needed to help sew cotton covers for rare book cradles. A simple pattern and the fabric will be provided to interested seamstresses (and seamsters). Contact Rachel Cohen at (217) 333-3777 in The Rare Book & Manuscript Library to participate.
$190 for the Music and Performing Arts Library to purchase the Dance On: Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen DVD. In this program, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen outlines her concept of Body-Mind Centering®, which postulates that inner body structures affect body movement. This title was suggested for the collection by the dance faculty to honor the life achievement of Chester Wolenski who has been teaching dance in the local community for the past 35 years.
$200 for the Applied Health Sciences Library to purchase the Older Americans Information Directory (2010/11 Edition), offering up-to-date information on the prevalent social, health and financial issues facing older Americans in the 21st century, as well as recreational and educational opportunities to enrich their lives.
$270 for the History, Philosophy and Newspaper Library to purchase Armenian Question in the Caucasus: Russian Archive Documents and Publications , issued in a three-volume collection as a special topic of study for the first time in world historiography. The topic is presented as a complex based on rare documents and publications which were long stored as secret and top secret in the Russian State Historical Archive (St. Petersburg) and the Russian State Military History Archive (Moscow).
$360 for the Slavic, East European and Eurasian Collections and Services to purchase Bashkortostan : istoriia, kul’tura, etnografiia : atlas (Bashkortostan : history, culture, ethnography : an atlas), an authoritative and comprehensive atlas of the historically-Muslim province of Bashkortostan, also known as Bashkiria, southeast of Moscow.
$375 for the International and Area Studies Library to purchase Kazanskii telegraf : gazeta politicheskaia, obshchestvennaia, literaturnaia i kommercheskaia, a prominent newspaper providing insight on Russian intellectual life and attitudes in one of the leading historically-Muslim cities of the Russian Empire during a time of massive economic and social change. Currently, there are only a few issues from 1900 and 1901 within the United States—at the Library of Congress.
$375 for the Slavic, East European and Eurasian Collections and Services to purchase Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsial’no-politicheskoi istorii : katalog dokumentov o Iaponii, 1904-1954 (The Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History : a catalog of documents on Japan, 1904-1954) compiled by Chiharu Inaba and D. B. Pavlov. The University already holds Inaba’s two other works on archival sources relevant to Russo-Japanese relations, which are based on his work in other major Moscow archives.
$500 for the Applied Health Sciences Library to purchase a selection of materials about animal companions and service animals. The gift will help provide academic support and background information in connection with a student project to train service dogs for a national foundation that assists disabled individuals.
$500 for the International and Area Studies Library to purchase Petrogradskiia viedomosti. For decades, the Library has owned a nearly-complete run of Russia’s first (and arguably most influential) newspaper, Sanktpeterburgskiia viedomosti, which was founded by Peter the Great in 1703. It now has the opportunity to add the tumultuous three years leading up to the Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917 (after St. Petersburg had been renamed Petrograd) to its 210 years of holdings, thanks to contacts with the world-class Slavonic Department of the National Library of Finland.
$500 for the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art to purchase Sienese Painters of the 1600’s. This comprehensive three-volume dictionary by Marco Ciampolini is lavishly illustrated by Baroque painters from Tuscany.
$500/semester or $1,000/year to support the Library's mission in providing instructional services to the Ethnography of the University Initiative (EUI). Each semester the Library works with undergraduate researchers through EUI to support ethnographic research about the University of Illinois. This one-of-a-kind campus program engages students to work with the Library at many levels including using its primary source materials, participating in library instruction sessions, and archiving final projects in its institutional repository, IDEALS. Students attend library instruction to develop effective communication skills for a poster presentation and learn design principles. Gifts will be used to professionally print research posters that will disseminate student work at the bi-annual EUI Student Conference. Click here for examples of student posters exhibited at the Ethnography of the University Initiative (Fall 2009/Spring 2010 Student Conference).
$585 for the International and Area Studies Library to purchase Kypchakskii slovar’ po armianopis’mennym pamiatnikam XVI-XVII vekov, a major new resource for Turkic and comparative linguistics. This dictionary is one of the best sources for reconstructing Kipchak, a Turkic language spoken on the steppes of southern Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan during the Middle Ages, and for understanding its role in the development of languages such as Kazakh and Tatar.
$600 for the Slavic, East European and Eurasian Collections and Services to purchase Izvestiia Kronshtadtskogo soveta rabochikh, matrosskikh i krasnoarmeiskikh deputatov (News of the Kronshtadt Soviet of workers’, sailors’ and Red Army deputies). These four microfilm reels contain the official Bolshevik newspaper of the strategically-located island fortress of Kronshtadt in the years leading up to the great anti-Bolshevik rebellion of 1921, in which the sailors and workers rose up against what they saw as the authoritarian actions of the regime.
$625 for the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art to purchase Portrait Painting in Rome: the Eighteenth Century . This three-volume set is a continuation of Portrait Painting in Rome: the Seventeenth Century which Ricker Library holds. This is the most comprehensive work to date on portrait painting in Rome, and provides extensive documentation with 1,729 illustrations by a leading art historian. It is an essential work providing up-to-date scholarship and a repertory of images for scholars, students, and connoisseurs of beauty.
$625 for the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art to purchase The medieval bestiary: the animal in illuminated manuscripts by Christian Heck and Remy Cordonnier. Written by the former chief curator at the Museum of Unterlinden in Colmar (Heck) and a specialist in animal iconography of the Middle Ages (Cordonnier), this book is a must for Ricker Library. It is richly illustrated with more than 600 reproductions of medieval manuscripts painted between the 4th and 16th centuries. Many of the images have never been published or are little known.
$750 for the History, Philosophy and Newspaper Library to purchase House of Commons, 1820-1832 . These volumes contain biographies of the 1,367 Members of the House of Commons from 1820 to 1832, surveys of elections and politics in the 383 constituencies of Great Britain and Ireland over the same period, and an introduction which analyzes and sets them in context. The result of more than 20 years' work in archives and libraries throughout Britain, Ireland and abroad, they constitute the most comprehensive survey of British and Irish politics during the period.
$800 for the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art to purchase Renoir, catalogue raisonné of paintings, pastels, drawings and watercolors: volume 3, 1895-1902 . This is the third volume of the complete and scholarly catalogue of Auguste Renoir’s important oeuvre. Thanks to generous donors, Ricker Library owns the first two volumes. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white, the 1,030 entries are the major contribution to the Renoir literature of the past two decades. Renoir (1841-1919) was a principal member of the Impressionist circle and one of the most prolific artists of the period.
$800 for the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art to purchase The drawings from the collection of Pierre-Jean Mariette . This is the first of two volumes in a six-volume set devoted to the astounding collection of French collector Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774). By the time of his death at age 80, Mariette had amassed 10,000 drawings of old masters such as Raphael, Michelangelo, and Vélasquez. Mariette’s holdings also included works by his French contemporaries, Boucher, Robert, and Nattoire. The first two volumes are dedicated to the French School. The forthcoming volumes will include Italian, Dutch, Flemish, and German drawings. The volumes are companions to an in-depth exhibition at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, where works from the Mariette collection are on display. As a tour-de-force of scholarship and beauty this work is a must for Ricker Library.
$810 for the International and Area Studies Library to purchase Lifliandskiia gubernskiia viedomosti, one of over 80 official provincial newspapers of the Russian Imperial government. Published three times a week in German and Latvian, it records the activities and initiatives of the provincial, municipal, and local authorities in what are now parts of Latvia and Estonia. This title is not currently available at any other library in North America.
$865 for the Music and Performing Arts Library to purchase the most recent volumes in the Masterclass Media Foundation series. These 20 volumes on DVD feature world-class musicians giving masterclasses and teaching students, or discussing, analyzing, and demonstrating their own approach to the performance of works with which they are associated. Because masterclasses are an invaluable way for students to learn, the opportunity to view these videos would benefit School of Music students greatly.
$900 for the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art to purchase Visible Spirit: The Art of Gian Lorenzo Bernini . This three-volume work is written by Professor Irving Lavin, one of the leading art historians of the Italian Baroque master, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). All of Lavin’s papers on Bernini are brought together and in many cases, have been updated. In addition, a comprehensive index is a welcome addition to his scholarship on Bernini’s architecture, his portraiture, contributions to theater, and the field of caricature.
$920 for the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art to purchase Aphrodisias: City & Sculpture in Roman Asia Architecture, Monuments & Sculpture . Aphrodisias, located in Western Turkey, was best known for its sanctuary of its goddess, Aphrodite, and for its marble sculptures of emperors, philosophers, benefactors, and athletes. This volume, which is profusely illustrated with color plates and plans of the buildings, details the importance of classical art in this Roman province. The volume is hand-bound with beautiful Japanese cloth. This is an important work for students of archaeology, classical art, and classics.
$1,095 for the Applied Health Sciences Library to purchase Physical Education, a collection of foundational and cutting-edge contributions that cover all of the major themes in physical education. This new four-volume reference work will be valuable to specialists in physical education and to scholars working in related areas—as well as to educational policy-makers and professionals—as a vital one-stop research tool.
$1,475 for the History, Philosophy and Newspaper Library to purchase Muslim World, 1100-1700: Early Sources on Middle East History, Geography and Travel . This eight-volume set contains texts translated from contemporary manuscripts and books. The Royal Asiatic Society (RAS), founded in 1823, was the main center in Britain for scholarly work on Asia in the 19th century, and has been a publisher since 1829. This set is the second collection of RAS Classics reissued by global publisher Routledge in association with the Society.
$1,490 for the Slavic, East European and Eurasian Collections and Services to purchase 10 microfilm reels of Shura (Counsel), a biweekly literary and current-affairs Tatar-language journal issued as a supplement to Vagit. Shura provided a platform for great turn-of-the-century Muslim writers of the Russian Empire, such as Gabdulla Tuqay.
$1,500 for the Modern Languages and Linguistics Library to purchase the six most recent volumes of the Œuvres complètes de Montesquieu (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation). This set of the works of one of France’s most prominent authors will significantly enhance the Library’s collection about the French Enlightenment.
$1,800 for the Reference, Research, and Scholarly Services to purchase an Annapolis globe for the Reading Room where reference materials such as atlases, almanacs, bibliographies, dictionaries, concordances, indexes, and research guides are located. The Annapolis, a 20-inch diameter illuminated globe featuring a hand-applied, hand cut map and, more than 4,200 place names, will offer students, faculty, and any world traveler endless discoveries. The globe's dark walnut base will echo the wooden columns found within the Main Library's Reading Room.
$1,975 for the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art to purchase Leonardo Da Vinci’s Leicester Hammer containing the entire range of Leonardo’s inventive thought on astronomy and water. It was purchased by Bill Gates in 1994 for the handsome price of $30 million; however, Ricker Library has the opportunity to obtain a lavishly-illustrated facsimile. This volume faithfully reproduces the original codex and comes with an English translation as well. The Leister Hammer contains 350 original facsimile drawings, as well as 350 pages of text, and is hand-bound in gold-embossed leather.
$2,000 for the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs to help fund a visiting library and information science professional through its Associates Program. Applicants from such countries as Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and Kenya who would like to participate in the four-week Program in May and June of 2012 and have the opportunity to explore and engage with current issues and trends in the field do not have enough funding to support their participation. A $2,000 gift will provide housing and the program fee for one participant from outside the United States.
$2,080 for the Funk Library CPLA Reference & Resource Center to purchase the National Garden Association’s Market Research Survey Package. This package consists of four highly regarded surveys: 1) “2011 National Gardening Survey”, 2) “Hard Times & Lawn & Garden Survey”, 3) “What Gardener’s Think Survey”, and 4) “Environmental Lawn & Garden Survey.” The information supplied by these surveys will give our student and faculty researchers insights that are important to decisions about landscape and garden designs, consumer support, and marketing.
$2,500 for the Digital Illini History Project to digitize one volume of the Illio, the official yearbook at Illinois. Illio volumes between 1895 and 1969 are available (with the exception of 1957). Sponsoring a specific year will make that volume accessible to Illinois alumni and anyone interested in viewing it online through the Illinois Digital Magazine and Yearbook Collection. Sponsors of one or more volumes will be recognized with an electronic bookplate. Note: In order to be cost effective, at least 10 volumes must be digitized at the same time. Gifts will be held in a University of Illinois Foundation account for the Digital Illini History Project until the fund has reached the $25,000 mark.
$2,500 for the Latin American and Caribbean Library to purchase Real Expedición Botánica a Nueva España . This 12-volume set brings together for the first time, deluxe reproduction of over 2,000 drawings of plants and animals made during the 18th century Spanish expedition to New Spain, which today are scattered amongst several collections worldwide. The detailed descriptions accompanying each illustration were written by authorities in the field and provide invaluable information on the flora and fauna of Mexico and surrounding areas. Lengthy essays in this beautifully illustrated and well-researched set give background on the expedition as well as on 18th century botany and zoology.
$2,840 for the Slavic, East European and Eurasian Collections and Services to purchase 19 microfilm reels of Vagit (Time), a Tatar-language newspaper published in the important frontier city of Orenburg (near the present-day border of Russia and Kazakhstan) in the years leading up to the Russian Revolution.
$4,000 for the Conservation Lab to purchase an AGS 2000 ultra sonic mister that allows for very detailed/fine treatments in the lab. Specifically, this mister is used to locally apply organic solvents in a mist form.
$4,000 for the Undergraduate Library to purchase two bike racks for the north and south sides of its plaza. Students are already using two bike racks already installed on the east and west side of the plaza; however, they have become so popular that space is limited. Additional bike racks will deter students from locking their bikes to the plaza’s railing overlooking the Undergraduate Library’s courtyard.
$5,000 for the Communications Library to add back issues of the Archives for the London International Advertising (LIA) Awards to its collections. LIA, in its 27th year, has established itself as a global leader honoring creativity and new ideas in advertising and design media and digital platforms.
$5,365 for the Education and Social Science Library to purchase the International Encyclopedia of Education, 3rd edition . This new eight-volume set totally replaces the 1994 second edition, covering all aspects of education in an international context. This is a critical reference source for students and faculty in the field of education.
Other opportunities include funding display cases in the Main Library or the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music as well as study nooks in the Chemistry Library. Call (217) 333-5682 or email frey@illinois.edu for quotes on these projects.
To fund one of these items or to ask for additional titles in an area of interest, call (217) 333-5682 or email frey@illinois.edu.
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