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  • Building History Logs (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates of Building History Logs include budgets, enrollment information, capital request information by building, a tree planting program, and statistics relating to employees, buildings, parking, and housing data. Volumes also include information about University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus and Chicago Circle campus by individual building including gross and net square footage, year completed, architect, contractor. Additional info for buildings includes appropriation of funds, information on construction, and statements on use of spaces.
  • Bulletin - Office of Research. College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
    Scholarship
  • Burma Projects Files (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digitized materials from the Association of College and Research Libraries' Burma Projects File including correspondence, memoranda, addresses, financial statements, reports, receipts, and summaries pertaining to the establishment (under ALA supervision, with Ford Foundation sponsorship) of a Social Science Library at the University of Rangoon and a University Library at the University of Mandalay, Burma. The Rangoon project was supervised (on location) by Paul Bixler (1958-60) and Joseph H. Reason (1961-62); the Mandalay project was supervised by Jay Daily (1952-62). Other correspondents include Richard B. Harwell, David H. Clift, Robert B. Downs, Raynard Swank, Mark M. Gormley, J.A. Quinn, and Helen Hlaing Hlaing Cho, U Maung Kyaw, U Kaung Nyunt, Daw Khin Khin Ohn, U Maung Maung, Myint Myint Khyn, U Myo Lwin, and U Ohn Pe who studied at American library schools.
  • CAC & ERG Documents Manuscript File (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Manuscripts of the Center for Advanced Computation and the Energy Research Group written on energy conservation, energy policy, fuel economics, economic impacts, pollution. (CAC Technical Memoranda changed to ERG Technical Memoranda and CAC Documents changes to ERG Documents (ca. Aug. 1978).
  • Campus, Community, and State Maps (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Campus, Community, and State Maps (Digital Surrogates), 1874-2009, includes materials digitized from the University of records series 0/1/807. Digitized materials include the Map of University Property; campus maps with north, south or whole campus views; campus plans and master plans (1986, 1989, 1990, 1996, 1999, 2001 and 2007); maps of campus farms, College of Agriculture buildings, and swine/sheep farms; general campus maps from Engineering, Utility Services, and the Operation and Maintenance Division; campus parking maps with parking regulations; amplified maps of campus sectors; and traffic sign surveys. An access copy is available in online and nearline files. Online files: Includes downsampled maps and plans, as well as computer aided desgin files. Materials are arranged in separate folders and are available at the URL listed above. Nearline files: Original/full resolution copies of all files are available. Please contact the University of Illinois Archives to request access.
  • Campus Folksong Club Oral Histories Project (Born Digital Records)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Campus Folksong Club Oral Histories Project (Born Digital Records), 2006-2007, includes interviews of Doyle Moore, Archie Green, Judy McCulloh, Fritz Plous, Viktor Lukas, Jarvis Rich, Glenn Ohrlin, Jonathan Allen, Neil Rosenberg, and Lyle Mayfield, who are former students, faculty and associates, and performers with ties to the University Folksong Club. Interviews concern these individuals' academic and professional backgrounds; their valuable perspective on the Campus Folksong Club; the Club's role in the folksong movement of the 1960s and the role it played in their lives. Materials also include consent forms, and working notes taken by project director Tracie Wilson. For more information about the Campus Folksong Club, see the CFC Oral History Summary in the Reference Materials folder. Audio recordings are available in the Club's website through the link provided above, and interview transcripts are available upon request.
  • Campus Folksong Club Records (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Campus Folksong Club Records (Digital Surrogates), 1961-1970, contains digitized copies of the newsletter Autoharp, the Organ of the Campus Folksong Club. Digitized material involves Folksong Club description and constitution statement; news and announcements; folksong music sheets and lyrics; varied articles; events postings and programs.
  • Carl H. Milam Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates of the papers of Carl H. Milam, including manuscripts of Milam's planned book on library careers.
  • Carl H. Milam's American Library in Paris Correspondence (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Correspondence files of ALA Executive Secretary Carl H. Milam concerning the American Library in Paris. The correspondence covers the period from two years after ALP's incorporation in 1920 through World War II and concerns plans, goals, projects and activities of ALP, financial status and budgets, selection and evaluation of ALP staff and trustees, the monthly literary review Ex Libris (inaugurated in 1923), the Reference Service on International Affairs, the Paris Library School and the Service to Soliders during World War II. Principal correspondents are ALP directors W. Dawson Johnston (1922-25), Burton Stevenson (1926-30), Robert Davis (1931- 34), Helen Latrap (1935) and Dorothy M. Reeder (1936-41); chairmen of the American Committee for the ALP Henry N. MacCracken (1923-24) and Earle B. Babcock (1924); president of the trustees Edward A. Sumner (1939-45) and other members of the Board of Trustees.
  • Carl Sandburg Collection
    Rare Book & Manuscript Library  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    The more than 2,700 photographs in this collection are scanned from the Carl Sandburg Collection housed in The Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Spanning the years 1893-1987, these images are part of a collection that includes typescripts and galley proofs of many of Sandburg's works, his correspondence with literary and public figures, recordings and transcriptions of Sandburg's radio broadcasts, and a supporting book collection of approximately 5,000 volumes.
  • Carl Stephens Manuscript, History of the University of Illinois (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Carl Stephens Manuscript, History of the University of Illinois (Digital Surrogates), 1946-1947, contains a digitized manuscript by Carl Stephens that recounts the history of the University of Illinois and its students from its founding in 1867 to 1947. Digitized material contains penciled marginal notations and a handwritten revision note.
  • Carl Woese Papers (Born Digital Records and Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Electronic records from the Carl Woese Papers (1960, 1988-2012), include digital surrogates and born-digital drafts of manuscripts, correspondence, biographical sketches, laboratory notes and notebooks, and genomic research data concerning Carl R. Woese's career as Professor of Microbiology, his research on evolution, microbiology, genetic code, and ribosomal RNA sequencing, winning the Craaford Prize in Biosciences in 2003, and the legacy of Archaea. Also includes digital surrogates of Professor Woese's laboratory notebook from General Electric (1960).
  • Caroline M. Hibbard
    Scholarship
  • Caroline Webster Papers, 1917-1921 (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates of the Papers of Caroline Webster as assistant to the director of the Library War Service head of the Hospital Library Service, and member of the Committee on an Enlarged Program for American Library Service containing correspondence with the American Red Cross (1918-1921); with Gertrude Rider of the committee on Work with the Blind, the New York Association for the Blind, and the Perkins Institute for the Blind (1919-1920); with dispatch offices (1919- 1920); concerning the establishment of public libraries in the Virgin Islands (1917, 1919-1920); with the Hospital Library Service personnel (1919-1921); postwar library service correspondence with national organizations (1919-1921); postwar library service records (1919-20).
  • Carrie E. Ober Letter (Digitized Content)
    Illinois History and Lincoln Collections  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    The digitized content of the Carrie E. Ober Letter consists of one letter from Carrie Ober to her cousin, Isa. Carrie E. Ober and her husband, Albert Ober, moved from Beverly, Massachusetts, to Three Oaks, Michigan, around 1870. The recipient of her letter, Carrie’s cousin Ida, lived in Massachusetts. Three Oaks is a village in Southwest Michigan that had a stop on a high-traffic route of the Michigan Central Railroad. The digitized content contains one letter dated October 14, 1871, from Carrie Ober to her cousin, Isa. The letter describes the outbreak of fires in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Illinois, including the Great Chicago Fire, and recounts details such as causalities and acres of land burned. The Illinois History and Lincoln Collections unit at the University of Illinois Library manages the physical items of the Carrie E. Ober Letter (MS 1059). The collection was completely digitized in 2020. For more information, contact an archivist at ihlc@library.illinois.edu.
  • La Casa Cultural Latina Publications (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Publications of La Casa Cultural Latina including: La Carta Informativa newsletter (1979-85, 1991-1993, 1998), La Carta newsletter (1986-1990, 1994-1996 2000, 2002-2004, 2006), El Boletin (1992-1993, 1995-97), The Literary Magazine (1982-91, 2004), Nuestra Carta (1994), Llamado de Alerta (1998), newsclippings, and other publications.
  • La Casa Cultural Latina Records (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates of the La Casa Cultural Latina Records includes digitized interviews from the Latino Input with Roberto Hernandez, Dan Perrino, and Dr. Henry Trebaj, 1974-75
  • CAS/MillerComm Lecture Recordings (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates of CAS/MillerComm Lecture Recordings includes digitized audiocassette recordings of lectures given at the University of Illinois part of the CAS/MillerComm series.
  • Cataloging and Metadata Management Section Committee Files (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates of files of Cataloging and Metadata Management Section committees and subcommittees, contains correspondence, reports and related material on projects and activities, committees include the Board on Personnel Administration and committees on Cataloging and Classification, Descriptive Cataloging, Dewey Decimal Classification, Committee on Cooperation with Lake Placid Foundation (1929-1948), Editorial Policy, Filing Rules, Policy and Research (1982-1992), Regional Groups, Relations with ALA and the Journal of Cataloging and Classification, Subject Analysis and Organization of Library Materials (1970-98), the Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA) (1979-94), and the Joint Steering Committee on AACR2 (1988-94), includes Gordon & Breach vs. Barschall litigation (1989-90).
  • Cavagna Sangiuliani Collection
    Rare Book & Manuscript Library  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani (1843-1913) was a public official, book collector, and recognized authority on the history of the Lombardy and Piedmont regions in northern Italy. His library contained tens of thousands of books on history, genealogy, biography, and law, including city statutes and organizational bylaws. The manuscripts in the collection especially reflect the study of local history and include charters, chronicles, investitures, leases, and other legal instruments relating to Italian cities, organizations, and families. All aspects of Italian history, from the Middle Ages to the first years of the twentieth century, are prominently represented in the Cavagna Sangiuliani Collection. Other topics which are heavily represented include art and architecture, church history and hagiography, engineering and fortification, military and religious orders, monasticism and religious life, Roman history and antiquities, and Italian academies and universities. Primarily in Italian, the collection also contains works in Latin, French, and German. Among the books in the collection are incunables, rare and early printed books, pamphlets, and ephemera. Many of the historical documents are unique and found in no other library worldwide. In addition, the Cavagna Sangiuliani Collection also contains several thousand maps, both printed and manuscript.
  • CEMREL Aesthetic Education Program Audio Recordings (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    CEMREL Aesthetic Education Program Audio Recordings include reel-to-reel and cassette tapes used by aesthetic educational programs and projects in the research and development of curriculum packages and final production copies of audio recordings that formed part of published curricular packages. Digtized audio recordings include "Critical Audience" interviews with Chicago Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert (in New York City on October 1, 1974), Cecil Smith, and Charles Champlin (1974).
  • Center for Advanced Study Audiovisual Materials (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Center for Advanced Study Audioviual Material includes digitized tapes of music regarding the Tiananamen Square Protests.
  • Center for Global Studies
    Scholarship
  • Center for Global Studies Newsletter
    Scholarship
  • Center for Global Studies Occasional Papers
    Scholarship
  • Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society (Born Digital Records)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society (Born Digital Records), 2002-2011, includes grant submissions, newsletters, brochures, budgets, minutes, reports, presentations, publications, and photographs concerning racial diversity on campus, student voting, hate crimes, civic diversity, health disparities, and racial discrimination. The files include a copy of the CDMS production website and office files organized into the following folders: Access-for-Students; Current-GRANTS; EWI; files; and web. A snapshot version of the CDMS website is available at the URL listed below. A .zip file containing files that cannot be placed online due to copyright or other reasons is available from the University Archives upon request. The files in the zip packet include a copy of the CDMS production website and office files organized into the following folders: Access-for-Students; Current-GRANTS; EWI; files; and website.
  • Champaign County Greenways and Trails Committee Plan and Maps (Born Digital Records)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Champaign County Greenways and Trails Committee Plan and Maps (Born Digital Records), 2004, contains the Champaign County Greenways and Trails Plan, prepared by the Champaign County Regional Planning Commission. The plan includes Champaign- Urbana - Savoy greenways and trails system maps in relation to recreation-based places of interest, the transportation system and frequent traffic generators.
  • Champaign-Urbana Historic Built Environment
    Champaign County Historical Archives (Urbana Free Library)  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    The Illinois Built Environment collection provides to the public a first-hand view of select original documents used to shape the Campus. Among others, items include hand sketches of campus plans, original trace and linen drawings of many of the Central Quadrangle buildings, four separate proposed sketches for the original Library, now known as Altgeld Hall, and watercolor renderings for the display of the Alma Mater and many buildings. This collection will grow over time as more original drawings, sketches and renderings are released for public use. Collection size: approximately 270 items. Digitization of this collection was conducted by The Urbana Free Library, with funding provided by a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant awarded by the Illinois State Library, an Office of the Secretary of State, with funds provided by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act. Access the full collection here: http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/search/collection/ufl
  • Chancellor's Issuances (Digital Surrogates and Born Digital Records)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates and Born Digital Records of the Chancellor's Issuances includes Strategic Plans of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a message from Chancellor Richard Herman.
  • Chancellor's Office Subject File
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Chancellor's Office Subject File, 1967-86, includes reports, memoranda, policy statements, minutes, publications, programs and correspondence received from or sent to the President, Trustees, administrators, deans, faculty, students and the public regarding admissions and enrollment, Allerton Park, the Assembly Hall, Athletic Association, business affairs, and University's Centennial (1967-68), Clabaugh Act, commencement, copyrights and patent's, Daily Illini, data processing, the George A. Miller Lecture Committee, fees and tuition, relations with the federal , state and local governments (Chicago & Urbana-Champaign), financial aid, foreign students, fund drives, grants, housing, health service, human rights and equal opportunity, international programs, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Illini Union, student demonstrations and moratoria, rumor control center, sabbatical leaves, the Urbana-Champaign senate, SEOP Project "500", traffic and parking, travel policy visitation, the academic departments and educational organizations including AAUP, AAUW, ACE, Council of Ten, MUCIA, National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, and Illinois Board of Higher Education. 1972-74 files include material dealing with academic credit for religious foundation courses; planning, construction, and dedication of the Levis Faculty Center; the revised Code on Student Affairs; Department of Accountancy Administrative problems, Graduate College and women's athletics. 1975-76 files include material dealing with the Council on Program Evaluation (COPE) and copies of Directives to Deans, Directors, and Department Heads from the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellors (1967-79). 1982-83 files include material on the Liberty Bowl; restrictions imposed on writers at the Daily Illini; Third Annual Black Women's Conference at Levi Faculty Center, creation of radio station WMBL. The 1983-84 file includes material relating to the Athletic Association and David Wilson; Chicago Campus consolidation and reorganization of the medical campus, Ad-Hoc Committee on the Future of International Programs; and COPE reports for Colleges of Agriculture, Education, LAS, and Law, and the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations.
  • Channing-Murray Foundation Records (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates of the Channing-Murray Foundation Records includes A History of Channing-Murray Foundation by Jane Anderson.
  • Charles Chiniquy Collection (Digitized Content)
    Illinois History and Lincoln Collections  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    The digitized content of the Charles Chiniquy Collection (1878-1909) consists of correspondence from Charles Chiniquy, John Carroll Power, and others to Edwin A. Sherman; one from Sherman; and a small collection of leaflets and broadsides. Subjects include the Roman Catholic Church, Abraham Lincoln, and the activities of the Lincoln Grand Guard of Honor, an organization founded to protect the tomb of Abraham Lincoln. Charles Chiniquy (1809-1899) was a Canadian Catholic priest who left the Catholic Church in 1858 and became strongly anti-Catholic. In 1885 he wrote a book entitled Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, in which he charged that the Vatican was behind the Confederate cause and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Edwin A. Sherman was an American soldier, miner, and resident of the Western states, notable for serving as the Commander in Chief of the Lincoln Grand Guard of Honor and for being vigorously anti-Catholic. His book, The Engineers of Hell: or, Rome’s Sappers and Miners (1883), purported to uncover and tell the story of the secret code of the Jesuits and their plans for world domination. The digitized content contains letters, primarily from Charles Chiniquy, but also from others, addressed to Edwin A. Sherman. It also contains a few letters from Sherman to members of the Lincoln Grand Guard of Honor. Also included are a few broadsides, leaflets, and circulars related to the books published by Sherman and Chiniquy. The Illinois History and Lincoln Collections unit at the University of Illinois Library manages the physical items of the Charles Chiniquy Collection (MS 134). The collection was completely digitized in 2023. For more information, contact an archivist at ihlc@library.illinois.edu.
  • Charles C. Stewart Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates from the Charles C. Stewart Papers contain digitized manuscripts in Arabic, pertaining to the Mauritanian Manuscripts Collection. This material is part of Professor Stewart's research material and was digitized by the University Archives. An access copy of the digitized manuscripts is available upon request.
  • Charles E. Mudie Papers, 1816-1897
    Rare Book & Manuscript Library  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    The Charles E. Mudie Digital Collection is comprised of correspondence, visual materials, and documents. This gathering of materials shed light on the management of Mudie’s Select Library, an innovative library that pioneered the concept of a circulating system operated by membership, as well as Mudie’s wide network of subscribers. The correspondence between Mudie, his family, and prominent 19th century literary English figures provides an ample view of the literary and publishing milieu during the Victorian era.
  • Charles E. Osgood Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates of the Charles E. Osgood Papers includes correspondence with Wilbur Schramm.
  • Charles Meyerson Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Consists of Charles Meyerson's photographs of campus life, WPGU, the Urbana City Council, the dance marathon, U of I bands, and Unit One/Allen Hall in 1975. Also includes a paper written by Meyerson for LAS 210, "The Sense of the Unit," (1974) an analysis on the Unit One experiment, which serves as a companion to this radio documentary: https://archive.org/details/UnitOneWPGUInDepth
  • Charles M. Thompson Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates of the Charles M. Thompason papers includes The Lincoln Way, 1913.
  • Charles R. Green Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digitized copies of the Charles R. Green Papers, relating to Green's service as Assistant Librarian at the Camp Library, Camp Johnston, Florida, contains photographs of the library and its interior floor plans, a map of the camp showing proposed sites for the library with comments written on the map describing the functions of the buildings and the areas, official camp orders, camp handbook, and correspondence with the ALA Library War Service Headquarters.
  • Charles Robertson Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates from the papers of Charles Robertson (1858-1935) including two bound volumes containing all of his publications and his specimen collection log books. The log books document insect specimens collected by Charles Robertson. Recorded information includes specimen number, scientific name of specimen, sex of specimen, date of collection, locality, insect order, host plant scientific name, and notes.
  • Charles Zeleny Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    University of Illinois Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital Surrogates of the Charles Zeleny Papers include correspondence and publicesions related to zoological research.