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Dancing on Maxwell Street

January 30, 2013
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Close-up photograph of Prairie Blazing Star plant on Southern Illinois University Edwardsville campus
Prairie Blazing Star, from Plants of SIUE (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) in CARLI Digital Collections

January 23, 2013
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From Sculpture Collection (Lewis & Clark Community College) in CARLI Digital Collections

January 16, 2013
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Most damage to library materials is a result of normal use and abuse including torn pages, broken spines and annotations applied by thoughtless patrons. Occasionally, however, library conservators and preservation specialists encounter surprising, amusing, or outrageous kinds of damage. Below are just a few examples of usual damages encountered recently by preservation staff at CARLI member libraries.

January 14, 2013
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Sheet music cover of The Goddess of Liberty, composer Joseph E. Howard, 1909, illustration by Starmer

January 9, 2013
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Volpone [costume sketch - Canina]

January 2, 2013
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December 20, 2012
By: Elizabeth Clarage

First page of letter from Benjamin Wiley to Edwin Stanton

December 12, 2012
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1943-04-24

December 5, 2012
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Front cover of Halcyon quarterly periodical, March 1971
Halcyon, March 1971, Front Cover, from Halcyon Magazine Collection (William Rainey Harper College) in CARLI Digital Collections

If a book can be judged by its cover, then the photograph on the front of the student-published Halcyon (vol. 2, no. 3, March 1971) tells part of the story. Credited to underground press organizations Chicago Seed and Liberation News Service, the image documents—in black and white, overlaid with patriotic red and blue—the civil unrest, student protests, and racial tension of the era.

November 28, 2012
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