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University Library Timeline

Timeline: From "All In Good Time" – Friendscript Spring/Summer 2024

Check out this timeline which chronicles the history of the University of Illinois Library since the 1860s!

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Webinars for Library Friends

These presentations are part of a virtual series hosted by the Friends of the Library and initiated by the Library Board of Advocates to share the wonders of the University Library at Illinois.

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Modugno Joins Library Communications

Modugno creates and designs digital and print materials that advance the Library’s mission, working with everything from emails to blog posts to brochures, social media, and web content.

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Gifts at Work

To Dream, and Run

Window dedication honors short but full life

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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