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Emblemata Hic Sunt Dracones cover

A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Thoughts

Artist used Emblematica Online to inform his work

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1924 cornerstone of Main Library building

Time's Up

Century-old capsule opened; replacement planned

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Conceptual drawing of an aerial view of the Archives and Special Collections building

Building Project Gets Official Nod

Construction begins on special collections facility

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Gifts at Work

John and Bonnie Dauer

Paying It Forward

Dauer gift responds to gift match challenge

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I was in grade school the first time I was taken into the Library, by a family friend. I remember that we discovered the first issue of 'Life' magazine, which seemed to me of incalculable antiquitiy. For many months in the mid-60s, I returned to the archives for a University Centennial project, paging through a century of back issues of the 'Daily Illini' to compile 'An Illini Century,' a centennial memory of undergraduate life. It was an exciting time; I had the feeling that I might find most anything in those pages, and I did —from Lorado Taft's farewell to Urbana to Red Grange selling his car in the classified ads.”
—Roger Ebert
BS, 1964