University of Illinois Press is pleased to announce that we are joining Publisher Collections on JSTOR, expanding opportunities for libraries worldwide to access our scholarly ebooks. Through the forthcoming University […]
Meet CARLI The Consortium of Academic Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) is a membership organization celebrating its 20th year of providing products, services, and programs for Illinois academic and research […]
University Press Week has been around since 1978. This week we’re joining other AAUP members to scholarly publishing concurrent with the first annual Academic Book Week (Nov. 9-16, 2015), a program […]
For Ray Bradbury, censorship was serious business. In Bradbury’s classic Fahrenheit 451, book banning was not only a matter of the obliteration of the printed page, but a literal case of […]
Ethelene Whitmire has received the 2015 Wheatley Book Award for First Nonfiction for her book Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian. The Wheatly Awards are presented by QBR: The Black Book Review and the Harlem […]
Ethelene Whitmire is an associate professor of library and information studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She answered some questions about her book Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian. Q: Who was […]
The media geniuses at 360Cities have produced a 40 gigapixel image of the Strahov Monastery Library in the Czech Republic. Link to the 360Cities image. Via Boing Boing. […]
My favorite story of the last couple of weeks is about Watson, the I.B.M. supercomputer who’s been working out on pro-grade Jeopardy players in real-time test matches. The idea is […]
A blogger at The Urbana Free Library compares the fate of the wondrous library in ancient Alexandria with the squeeze being put on today’s public libraries in the wake of the global […]
In today’s Dream Job category, we have the University Library at California Santa Cruz seeking to fill the Grateful Dead Archivist position. So: perfect opportunity to sport your Jerry tie, […]