The Illinois & Michigan Canal was once an important transport artery between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, but by the 1930s, the canal was in ill repair, and any significant commercial use was a distant memory. When the Civilian Conservation Corps was formed in 1933, work commenced on restoration of the I&M canal and the development of recreational amenities, eventually leading to the designation of the I&M Canal as a National Heritage Corridor in 1984. Lewis University’s CCC I&M Canal Photographs collection depicts the camp life and work of eight CCC camps, and the resulting fruits of their labor.
CARLI News
January 31, 2014
CARLI is beginning the first phase of the lengthy formal process of selecting and implementing the system that will ultimately replace Voyager as the software platform for I-Share. We do not plan to rename I-Share, but for clarity while we are still running Voyager and planning for its replacement, we will be using the phrase “I-Share Next” to refer to our future system.
January 30, 2014
School Days in the Fifties; a true story with some untrue names of persons and places. (1906)
School Days in the Fifties is an account of the author's childhood in school in the 1850s, as well as his thoughts on the effectiveness of his teachers' methods and behaviors.
January 29, 2014
Registration is now open for each webinar in a series of four presentations on digital preservation issues.
January 24, 2014
As of 10:00 pm on Tuesday, January 21, the SSL Certificate has been renewed and users should no longer see an "expired certificate" warning when accessing online catalogs.
January 21, 2014
I’m not a big fan of winter, but I feel like if I’m going to be cold and miserable, there might as well be snow.
January 3, 2014
Changes to CARLI Membership Criteria and Benefits
This fall, as part of CARLI's ongoing efforts to gather information about member libraries, the CARLI Board and staff visited twelve CARLI Governing and Affiliate member libraries. Informed by these visits and previous Board discussions, the Board of Directors approved several changes to CARLI membership criteria and benefits at their December meeting. Beginning July 1, 2014, CARLI Governing member institutions must be Not-for-Profit, and the institution must be incorporated in Illinois.
December 19, 2013
The engraved frontispiece to the 1724 edition of William Cowper’s anatomical treatise illustrates more than muscles.
December 19, 2013
This is a guide map for the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 (AKA the World’s Columbian Exposition). I decided to search across the CARLI digital collections and see what I could find on it. A sampling follows.
December 10, 2013
Here is a selection of videos designed to teach library staff or users how to care for materials. While many of the pointers are the same, the ways in which the information is presented varies widely.
Written by David Bell, Eastern Illinois University, CARLI Preservation Committee member
December 5, 2013
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