The Rare Book and Manuscript
Library is looking for
seamstresses to custom make covers for the Library's book cradles. Patterns
and fabric will be provided by the Library. You provide the sewing machine, thread, and
sewing talent. The covers will protect rare and fragile books during the process of their
being used for research purposes. Call (217) 333-3777 or email
vhotchki@illinois.edu
for more information.
$300 for the Modern Languages and Linguistics Library for the Dictionnaire Culturel en Langue Française . In this dictionary, detailed entries are followed by varying uses of the words across the Francophone world, as well as many citations and references to other cultures,in order to uncover the complex cultural and historical networks which hide within each word.
$350 for the Education and Social Science Library to purchase the Encyclopedia of Gender and Society . This encyclopedia includes articles by experts in the field and covers the major theories, research, people, and issues in contemporary gender studies. It is distinguished by across-national/cross-cultural perspective that provides comparative analyses of the life experiences of men and women around the world.
$410 for the Modern Languages and Linguistics Library to purchase Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies . This new edition covers the core concepts of the discipline as well as the history of translation in major linguistic communities. This encyclopedia will serve the students of the newly established Center for Translation Studies and anyone interested in this rapidly growing discipline.
$410 for the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art to purchase Creating the Pantheon: design, materials and construction . This is an important scholarly work devoted to Roman design and construction of one of the most well known and preserved architectural monuments in the world. This 429-page monograph reviews standard design procedures, concrete construction, general sources of design, and the main architectural components of drum and dome.
$435 for the Map and Geography Library to purchase a set of topographic maps of Turkey. The set includes 69 map sheets with a scale of 1:250,000 ( 1 inch equals approximately 4 miles). The maps will be used by students and faculty studying the geology, politics, and culture of this important eastern European country.
$540 for the Map and Geography Library to preorder volume 5 of the Atlas of the United Dutch East Indies Company . Volume 5 covers the territories in Africa. This single edition comprises one volume of a set of seven to eventually be issued covering all of the settlements and territories under the Charter of the Dutch United East India Company (1602-1799). Each edition will have a maximum of 1,600 copies, individually numbered, with complete text in Dutch and English. Two additional gifts in the same amount will help preorder volumes 6 and 7 for India and East Africa to be issued in 2010. Volumes 1-4 are already out of print.
$650 for the Reference Library to purchase the six-volume set of the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World . Beginning coverage in the sixth century and extending it to the present day, the Encyclopedia covers Muslims in the Arab heartland as well as South and Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
$800 for the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art to purchase Ephesos: Architecture, Monuments and Sculpture by Friedrich Krinzinger. Ephesos, located on the Aegean coast of Turkey, is the site of one of the most important Classical cities in the region. The scholars of the Austrian Archaeological Institute under the leadership of director, Friedrich Krinzinger, have written the texts based on their excavations and restorations at the site. The volume contains 143 sumptuous color plates consisting of panoramic views of the ancient city as well as images of monuments and sculpture.
$800 for the Education and Social Science Library to purchase a literature rack to hold the multitude of handouts created to assist patrons in using the special collections housed in that area of the Library. Just a few of the topics involved are the Arms Control Collection, Children's/Young Adult Literature, Curriculum Collection, Human Relations Area Files, Mandeville Collection, and the Test Collection.
$895 for the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art to purchase the two-volume work, The “Scuola Grande” of San Rocco in Venice . Scuola Grande of San Rocco is one of the most important Venetian religious confraternities formed in the 15th century devoted to the plague saint, St. Roch. The bulk of its fabulous decoration is owed to Tintoretto who was responsible for much of its decorative program in the 16th century. These volumes contain 402 color plates and form part of the celebrated series Mirabilia Italiae of which Ricker Library holds the previous 14 volumes. Acquisition of these volumes would bring the holdings up to date in Ricker Library. The hundreds of detailed color photographs are accompanied by critical essays from leading scholars in the field of Italian art and architectural history.
$900 for the Modern Languages and Linguistics Library to purchase the three-volume set of La Fabrique des Rougon-Macquart . These three volumes contain a complete facsimile and transcription of the documentation, observations, and manuscript drafts which Émile Zola, one of the most prominent French novelists of the 19th-century, compiled in preparation for his monumental twenty-novel cycle "Les Rougon-Macquart", which includes such novels as "Nana", "Germinal", and "Ladies' paradise".
$1,020 for the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art to purchase the three volumes of Franz Marc: the Complete Works by Annegret Hoberg. This is a key work on the German Expressionist painter and member of the group, Der Blaue Reiter. The catalogue covers all mediums in the career of this short-lived artist who died in World War I.
$1,500 for the Illinois Natural History Survey Library to purchase one of the 300 limited-edition 300 copies of Linnaeus Apostles Global Science & Adventure . Swedish Naturalist Carl Linnaeus inspired 17 of his scholars to travel abroad to document local nature and culture. They came to be known as the Linnaeus Apostles. This eight-volume set of 5,000 pages contains the accounts, illustrations, maps, and biographies of the Apostles. The limited edition includes the eight volumes, two genuine Tapa cloth samples from Tonga, gilded edged, and a unique number.
$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 Modern Languages and Linguistics Library to purchase La Gran Obra de los Caminos de Santiago , an eight-volume set that provides a global vision of the Pilgrims’ Way to Santiago de Compostela in word and images. Faculty and students in medieval and religious studies will use this beautifully illustrated encyclopedia to study the history of the travels through northern Spain via a well-traveled path that is now considered one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites.
$3,775 for the Library and Information Science Library to obtain perpetual online access to the second edition of The Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology. The encyclopedia covers such topics as data mining, distance learning technologies, electronic government, the human side of information systems, mobile technologies, and virtual communities.
$7,000 for Digital Content Creation to digitize a collection of
the original comic strip art boards of Nina Paley, an Urbana-born cartoonist and
animated filmmaker, whose award-winning animated film
Sita Sings the Blues was reviewed by Roger Ebert as "astonishingly original" and selected
by him for screening at Ebertfest 2009 in Champaign.
Her cartoon series include
Nina's Adventures (self-syndicated) and
Fluff (distributed internationally by Universal Press Syndicate).
Nina's Adventures was a semi-autobiographical, often experimental, alternative weekly
comic strip that delivered incisive commentary on consumerism, overpopulation, and other social
issues. Ms. Paley is interested in making her artwork openly and freely available for
distribution and reuse.
$7,800 for the Ricker Library of Art and Architecture to purchase the facsimile of The Bible Moralisée , a fifteenth century illumination by the Limbourg brothers, who were employed by Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. The volume will be utilized by art history faculty and students and will add to the Library’s extensive collection of biblical publications.
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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