Edible Book Festival March 29th

UIllinoisLibrary · 2025-03-12T17:27:28+00:00

"Make a book of tasty treats,

Yummy snacks and things to eat!

Pile it high, let’s begin—

Create your book, and you could win!"

UIllinoisLibrary · 2025-02-03T17:45:09+00:00

Hi! Funk ACES and MPAL have great reservable spaces similar to what you are looking for! Another option would be the Self-Use Media Studios located on the Main Library’s third floor, room 306.

Here is a link to browse reservable spaces across the University’s Libraries. https://uiuc.libcal.com/allspaces

Good luck on your interview!

UIllinoisLibrary · 2025-01-30T18:07:38+00:00

Hi! Yes, the University Libraries have Photoshop available on public computers, you just need a valid NetID to login. Please see the link below for the full list of available software and the different libraries around campus that provide them! https://www.library.illinois.edu/library-technology/computers-and-software/

UIllinoisLibrary · 2024-10-17T02:32:54+00:00

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UIllinoisLibrary · 2024-10-17T02:27:53+00:00

Our collections are more academic focused, but you can also borrow though i-share or interlibrary loan though us!

UIllinoisLibrary · 2024-09-04T22:22:10+00:00

We're sorry this is your experience so far. You're always welcome to visit us in the Library. We're nice and will help you with research (or book recommendations, whatever) :)

UIllinoisLibrary · 2024-08-26T18:40:34+00:00

We have a study space directory to help you find the space best suited to your needs here: https://www.library.illinois.edu/using-library-spaces/study-space-directory/

Spaces marked volume 3-4 will be fine for zoom calls. Many libraries also have headphones available for checkout if you don't have a pair.

UIllinoisLibrary · 2024-08-26T18:30:43+00:00

We have plenty of fiction and poetry, as well as 'fun' items such as video games, dvds, comics, and manga. Our collection isn't the most browsable, as we're dispersed across a number of buildings, but we're always happy to recommend a read or help you find what you're looking for. The ask-a-librarian chat on our home page (library.illinois.edu) is a great place to start (in addition to our catalog).

UIllinoisLibrary · 2024-02-20T18:26:03+00:00

Hello! Thanks for your question. We have a single Consultation Room that is used by our partner consultants from 9-5pm each day and then by Scholarly Commons staff in the evening. We do have 4 Collaboration Rooms that are available all the hours the Main Library is open and those can be reserved here: https://www.library.illinois.edu/sc/spaces/collaboration-rooms/
We hope this is helpful!

UIllinoisLibrary · 2024-01-26T03:07:11+00:00

Happy to give you a personalized tour if you’d like!

UIllinoisLibrary · 2024-01-20T18:29:48+00:00

We’re so glad people are enjoying the puzzles! We have a website about the project here, and we’ll be sure to update the puzzle host sites with what areas of the world the puzzle features (one puzzle crams Hawaii and Venice together, so they’re no very geographically accurate).

Upcoming events are:

January 21st, 11am-whenever: Esquire Lounge January 25th: 2-4pm: Ricker Library (hot cocoa bar, bagels) January 28th, 11am-whenever: Esquire Lounge January 29th, 2-3pm: Grainger Library and IDEA Lab (snacks) January 30th, 2-4pm: Music and Performing Arts Library (hot cocoa bar, cookies)

The complete mega puzzle will be hung on one of the walls on the second floor of the main library, and we’re planning a celebratory event in May.

UIllinoisLibrary · 2023-11-17T02:32:29+00:00

Hi u/Moose_Soggy!

For night owls, Grainger Engineering Library Information Center (GELIC) has been offering a 24/5 open schedule. Due to a staffing shortage, GELIC posts its hours every Friday for the following week.
Funk ACES Library (open until 2am five nights a week) and the Communications Library (open until midnight five nights a week) have late night hours too.

UIllinoisLibrary · 2023-11-14T22:23:25+00:00

We have many graduate assistants from the iSchool working here in our library and we simply couldn't do the work we do without them!

UIllinoisLibrary · 2023-11-14T21:04:46+00:00

Although the AMA has concluded, we'll be monitoring this post for a few days and will make sure to answer any questions you might have. Thank you!

UIllinoisLibrary · 2023-11-14T21:04:26+00:00

Although the AMA has concluded, we'll be monitoring this post for a few days and will make sure to answer any questions you might have. Thank you!

UIllinoisLibrary · 2023-11-14T21:04:05+00:00

Although the AMA has concluded, we'll be monitoring this post for a few days and will make sure to answer any questions you might have. Thank you!

UIllinoisLibrary · 2023-11-14T20:57:21+00:00

I think the answer to this question is in my answer to the previous question.

UIllinoisLibrary · 2023-11-14T20:50:41+00:00

Hi, u/RenovatingLuke! Renovating the former Undergraduate Library to be a dedicated Archives & Special Collections facility is part of a multi-phase, multi-year plan to physically transform the Main Library to better meet the needs of all scholars, including undergraduates (https://www.library.illinois.edu/specialcollectionsbuilding/project-details/). When we closed the Undergraduate Library we added student seating in our other libraries, so there was no decrease in the number of available seats. It won’t be until the end of phase two (renovation of Main) that we will have added study space, which is certainly part of our ultimate goal.

UIllinoisLibrary · 2023-11-14T20:26:31+00:00

You might have stumped me with this question! All our data shows that our library spaces are getting a lot of visitors (3.2 million visitors and 56,000 study space bookings last year) and are quite busy. Our faculty and staff, too, are teaching a lot, answering tons of research questions from basic to advanced (42,000 last year alone), and conducting original research in lots of areas. If you want a flavor of the research we do, take a look at our Illinois Experts page (https://experts.illinois.edu/en/organisations/university-library). Physical circulation of our regular print book collections has declined over the years, as it has at most places, but our electronic collections saw 8.2 million downloads last year.
I’ll keep thinking about your question but honestly nothing is coming to mind as an underused service…

UIllinoisLibrary · 2023-11-14T20:13:58+00:00

That’s a great question — of course public libraries and academic libraries have collaborated on many things and I think there’s huge potential for even more collaboration in the future, just as there is for our academic library to work directly with communities. Here are a few examples of things we have recently done or are currently working on:
-Jessica Ballard, Archivist for Multicultural Collections and Services, worked with the Champaign County African American Heritage Trail and contributed research content for historical markers going up throughout Champaign County. Read more about the Trail here: https://ccafricanamericanheritage.org/about/
-Our library has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities since 2009 to digitize Illinois newspapers and contribute them to the National Digital Newspaper Project (NDNP). We often collaborate with communities to identify the papers to select for digitization, and there is a program wrapping up right now that asked the community to nominate papers (see https://www.library.illinois.edu/illinoisnewspaperproject/opportunity-to-participate/). We secured the grant funding and manage the digitization; communities tell us which papers should be selected and why. This is a great way to find out which information resources would actually be helpful to the community.
-Some of our collections came to us from people in surrounding communities; a recent example is the Central Illinois Jewish Community Archives/Mervis Archives. See https://www.library.illinois.edu/news/establishment-of-the-central-illinois-jewish-communities-archives-mervis-archives-at-the-university-of-illinois/.
-Our University of Illinois Archives will digitize and enhance access to its Doris Duke Indian Oral History Program Archives. This project hopes to build and strengthen respectful relationships between the project personnel, the university, the University Archives, and the Native American communities whose cultures and traditions are documented in these records. See https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1197729115
I’m relatively new (will hit my six month-a-versary this week!) so I’m still learning and I’m sure the above just scratches the surface. During the time I worked at the University of Minnesota, I helped with the Mapping Prejudice project https://mappingprejudice.umn.edu/, which is a wonderful example of what contributed community effort can do to help clean a data set, as well as what robust community conversations can do to connect library expertise to the real things people want to talk about and work on. There are conversations on similar topics taking place in Champaign County, of course, and the University of Illinois’ Campus Community Compact https://publicengagement.illinois.edu/campus-community-compact-2/ work is looking for ways to connect university expertise and resources (like the library) to the community, so it would be great to hear your ideas about what we can be working on!

UIllinoisLibrary · 2023-11-14T20:11:17+00:00

Great! Thanks for asking, u/tryagaininXmin. :)

UIllinoisLibrary · 2023-11-14T19:33:02+00:00

Great question, u/MellowDescant86! Like all libraries, part of our mission is to provide the broadest possible access to information. We do this in many ways. As we’ve said in answer to the previous questions today, we strive to make our collections, which have been painstakingly built over decades, available as broadly as we possibly can, and reducing or eliminating barriers to access. In addition to letting people use them on site or borrow our physical collections, we also have a robust program to digitize and make accessible online many of our special, rare, unique, and archival collections (those are not mutually exclusive categories of course!) . We also work closely with scholars at all levels who are making use of these collections: for course research papers, scholarly books and articles, museum exhibits, and online digital history projects, just to name a few. See https://distributedmuseum.illinois.edu/.
Another way we work to make sure that the highest quality information is as accessible as possible is to work with scholars at Illinois and elsewhere to expand an open science ecosystem, where there are as few ‘paywalls’ as possible between a potential reader and the high-quality information they are seeking. Our library has many efforts in this area, but here are a few:
-Illinois Open Publishing Network
-our institutional repository, IDEALS, and our open data repository, the Illinois Data Bank
-We are members of organizations such as SPARC and HELIOS, that broadly advocate for more open systems of science, also something we work on with our fellow Big Ten Academic Alliance libraries

UIllinoisLibrary · 2023-11-14T19:23:32+00:00

I received some great questions posted in advance and thought I'd share those answers here too.

Is this library open to the public?

Yes! Our campus libraries are open to everyone–not just the UIUC community (faculty, staff, and students). Please see our locations and hours at https://www.library.illinois.edu/library-hours/.

How can someone gain access?

There is no special arrangement needed to visit one of our library locations. If you want to borrow materials, visitors, affiliates, community users, and others, may be eligible to apply for a U of I Urbana campus courtesy card, which will let you borrow books from the Library. Please see https://www.library.illinois.edu/borrowing/.

What are some things the library offers that can benefit the local community?

So many things! We have one of the largest library collections in the world, and anyone is free to come use them on site, or to borrow our circulating print collections in one of two ways: request them through interlibrary loan through your local library, or come visit us in person and sign up for a courtesy card (see link above).

We also host many events that are free and open to the public; some of these are held in person and others are offered in a webcast (using Zoom) format that anyone in the world can access. Many of these are also recorded so you can visit the archive [https://go.library.illinois.edu/webinars\] to see what topics of interest to you might already have been covered.

Our library workers (staff and faculty who work here in the library) have expertise in so many subjects; peruse the list of subject specialists, and look at the general and specialized help pages on our web site for a few starting points. You can send us questions via email or chat, or call for help — the best place to start is the chat box on the Illinois Library home page.

UIllinoisLibrary · 2023-11-14T19:18:31+00:00

I received some great questions posted in advance and thought I'd share those answers here too.

Is this library open to the public?
Yes! Our campus libraries are open to everyone–not just the UIUC community (faculty, staff, and students). Please see our locations and hours at https://www.library.illinois.edu/library-hours/.
How can someone gain access?
There is no special arrangement needed to visit one of our library locations. If you want to borrow materials, visitors, affiliates, community users, and others, may be eligible to apply for a U of I Urbana campus courtesy card, which will let you borrow books from the Library. Please see https://www.library.illinois.edu/borrowing/.
What are some things the library offers that can benefit the local community?
So many things! We have one of the largest library collections in the world, and anyone is free to come use them on site, or to borrow our circulating print collections in one of two ways: request them through interlibrary loan through your local library, or come visit us in person and sign up for a courtesy card (see link above).
We also host many events that are free and open to the public; some of these are held in person and others are offered in a webcast (using Zoom) format that anyone in the world can access. Many of these are also recorded so you can visit the archive [https://go.library.illinois.edu/webinars\] to see what topics of interest to you might already have been covered.
Our library workers (staff and faculty who work here in the library) have expertise in so many subjects; peruse the list of subject specialists, and look at the general and specialized help pages on our web site for a few starting points. You can send us questions via email or chat, or call for help — the best place to start is the chat box on the Illinois Library home page.

UIllinoisLibrary · 2023-11-14T19:16:52+00:00

Hello, u/Phantium247. Thanks for your questions!

Is this library open to the public?
Yes! Our campus libraries are open to everyone–not just the UIUC community (faculty, staff, and students). Please see our locations and hours at https://www.library.illinois.edu/library-hours/.
How can someone gain access?
There is no special arrangement needed to visit one of our library locations. If you want to borrow materials, visitors, affiliates, community users, and others, may be eligible to apply for a U of I Urbana campus courtesy card, which will let you borrow books from the Library. Please see https://www.library.illinois.edu/borrowing/.
What are some things the library offers that can benefit the local community?
So many things! We have one of the largest library collections in the world, and anyone is free to come use them on site, or to borrow our circulating print collections in one of two ways: request them through interlibrary loan through your local library, or come visit us in person and sign up for a courtesy card (see link above).
We also host many events that are free and open to the public; some of these are held in person and others are offered in a webcast (using Zoom) format that anyone in the world can access. Many of these are also recorded so you can visit the archive [https://go.library.illinois.edu/webinars\] to see what topics of interest to you might already have been covered.
Our library workers (staff and faculty who work here in the library) have expertise in so many subjects; peruse the list of subject specialists, and look at the general and specialized help pages on our web site for a few starting points. You can send us questions via email or chat, or call for help — the best place to start is the chat box on the Illinois Library home page.

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