Month: November 2011

2011-11-29

From the American Library Association (ALA) News & Press Center:

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library has launched a project to digitize the complete back contents of the Association of College and Research Libraries ’ (ACRL) official scholarly research journal College & Research Libraries ( C&RL ). The volunteer initiative will scan the full contents of C&RL through 1996 and make them freely available to the public in the University of Illinois’s IDEALS institutional repository. C&RL contents from 1997 to the present will remain freely available through the publication’s online presence at HighWire Press . More…

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2011-11-17

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dads Association has presented the Undergraduate Library with a check for $2,745.  The funds will go toward purchasing a book in honor of the academic achievements of each of 61 students recognized at the Dads Association Annual Banquet on November 11, 2011.  A book will be purchased for each student and will contain a bookplate with the student’s name.  The Dads Association has annually honored students with a gift to the Library since 1986.

The Dads Association was formed in 1922 for “the purpose of promoting the general welfare of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in cooperation with its faculty, staff, students, and parents.” The Dads Association is a separately incorporated, nonprofit association and was the first parent organization in the U.S.

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