Rare book room university of illinois

History, ma university library is the departments main research facility. The art history common room is available for use as a meeting room to all art history graduate students. University of illinois alumna to head rare book and. The university library, the largest public university library in the u. The library is one of the largest special collections repositories in the united states. Thomas ischool 99 is the head of the rbml, which is the largest publiclyaccessible university rare book and manuscript collection in the nation.

Downs actively sought to enlarge the librarys holdings in its areas of strength and to develop new areas of. What that means is anyone can request any item from the collection for viewingas long as they follow the rules set forth by the rbml to ensure the items safety. A catalog of correspondence, arranged alphabetically by correspondent, from and to wells is published in volume 11 of the catalog of the rare book room, university library, university of illinois g. This website may display better in firefox than in internet explorer. Like many people, you may believe that a rare book is an old book. Now broken into three constellations, puppis the stern, carina the keel, and vela the sails, the great ship argo carried jason on his search for the golden fleece.

Black and white photograph of henri stegemeier in the rare book room. Also included are selected books, reprints, and journals dealing with the history of medicine at the university and in the state of iowa. Swiss settlers in sw illinois southern illinois university. University library, university of illinois at urbanachampaign. Clark xray facility and 3m materials laboratory, university of illinois at urbanachampaign. History, phd university library is the departments main research facility.

Rare book and manuscript library university of illinois library. Our rare books collection totals over 10,300 volumes, in all subject areas, and is particularly strong in 18th and 19th century english and american literature and history, as well as religion and the history of the book. The curator of rare books crb will play a leadership role in developing and interpreting the librarys rare book collections, and will actively engage a broad audience of scholars, students, collectors, and donors. The rare book and manuscript library is open to anyone wishing to use the collection. Its collections, consisting of over half a million volumes and three kilometers of manuscript material, encompass the broad areas of literature, history, art. Items are placed in the rare books collection for many reasons, including age, scarcity, condition, or source of acquisition. The collectionsover 600,000 volumes and just over two linear miles of manuscript materialencompass the broad areas of literature, history, art.

University library, university of illinois at urbanachampaign staff login. View profile view profile badges get a job like jennifers. The nearly 6,500 volumes in the john martin rare book room are original works representing classic contributions to the history of the health sciences from the 15th through 21st centuries. In addition to the general rare book collection, the university library acquires. The history department proudly supports over nine dozen graduate students engaged in critical historical inquiries. Joseph jefferson as bob acres in university of illinois at.

Graphic design intern at special collections and rare book room. Downs 19581974, the university library began identifying rare titles throughout the general stacks and subject libraries, bringing them together in a new, larger space designated the rare book room. Daley library or in library of the health scienceschicago. One of the items displayed at the writers and their tools exhibit is a typewriter that belonged to a u of i student named hugh hefner. Welcome to rare books and special collections northern illinois.

The eastern illinois section of the american chemical society provided support for the construction of this website. Jennie latzer kaeser rare book room, lovejoy library, southern illinois university edwardsville this unique series of five books descriptive of the swiss in southwestern illinois came into being primarily through the enthusiasm, shared interests, and sustained efforts of three remarkable individuals. For example, the ui library has a book called hummingbirds by crawford greenewalt. The university librarys rare book room was organized in 1937, its first major collections the great shakespeare and milton collections, built, respectively. We have scarce and rare books in all subjects, including especially western. The rare book and manuscript library at the university of illinois in. Main library university of illinois at urbanachampaign. To search our collections, please use the above search bar to connect to the librarys vufind catalog.

The rare book collection at the college of law contains more than 10,000 volumes dating from the sixteenth through the twentieth century in a range of areas from the angloamerican tradition to renaissance europe to precommunist china. The main collection was acquired in two parts, labelled wells1 and wells2. Rare books uic library university of illinois at chicago. Bodoni, giambattista author manuale tipografico 1818 parma bridwell library, southern methodist university. Massachusetts institute of technology digital collections. Subject guides to rare book and manuscript collections. Reporting to the director of special collections, the curator of rare books crb enhances and promotes the rare book collections. Jennifer estill graphic design intern special collections. Thomas, who earned her masters degree in library and information sciences at the university of illinois, has been selected as the new head of the u. The rare book collection consists of approximately 340,000 volumes ranging in date from the fifteenth century to the twentyfirst.

A book may even be considered rare without being old at all. These books cannot be checked out and must be read in chicago in the special collections and university archives reading rooms in richard j. Nearly all of the librarys pre1800 titles are located in special collections, as are many books from the early decades of the nineteenth century. A new exhibit at the university of illinois rare book and manuscript library features the tools that writers have used throughout history to record their words. Henri stegemeier was the professor of germanic languages and literature. University of illinois special collections request system. Second floor, room 225 755 library road university of rochester rochester, ny 146270055 phone. An older, but more sophisticated search interface called classic search is also available. By the end of downss career, the rare book room had moved from its fourthfloor location to the librarys west wing, where the rbml remains. The books in these named collections and all other rare books can be found in the library catalog.

This website grew out of an exhibit held at the university of illinois at urbanachampaign rare book room in april 2000. On either side of a monument with oil lamp, a craftsman with hammer and anvil, and a man reading a book. Search collections rare book and manuscript library u of i. Significant, documented mold blooms affected the central stacks collection in 1993 and the rare book. Rare books collection university of illinois college of law. Joseph jefferson as bob acres in the rivals date 1889. The rare book and manuscript library at the university of. Special collections and university archives houses rare books and printed materials, manuscript collections, and. Our rare book room, attached to the largest independent bookstore in new mexico, was started by dwight myers of the new mexico book league, and expanded by riley and betty parker after closing their store, parker books of the west, in santa fe. It is also used by faculty on occasion for meetings. The rare book room site has been constructed as an educational site intended to allow the visitor to examine and read some of the great books of the world. Over the last decade, a company called octavo digitally photographed some of the world s great books from some of the greatest libraries. Rare book and manuscript collection university of illinois library. Specific strengths for research are to be found in the lincoln room, the university archives, the illinois historical survey library, and the rare book room.