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Announcing our Spring 2025 Health Sciences Webinar Series

Join us for our Enhancing Research and Evidence-Based Practice webinar series designed to help researchers, clinicians and information professionals improve their ability to find, evaluate and apply evidence.

Barack Obama, Democratic candidate in primary for 1st District representative in Congress, awaits election results at the Ramada Inn surrounded by his family and supporters on March 21, 2000. Photo by Wes Pope.

What was life in Chicago like in 2000?

This year, the UIC Library is marking the 25th anniversary of the CITY 2000 project with a new digital exhibit, and a massive online catalog of digitized images and audio and video recordings from the project, available through Special Collections.

Left: The cover of the 35-page “Restore” zine created by UIC students in summer 2024 through a workshop for women at the Cook County Department of Corrections. Right: Doctoral candidate (criminology, law and justice) and workshop facilitator Jenna Pasanen (left) looks at a print copy with intern Lauren Hanna, while intern Misbah Ali discusses the design with Digital Scholarship Hub student employee Folake Oluewu (computer science).

Transformative connections

What do you get when you bring together UIC faculty and students and incarcerated women at the Cook County Department of Corrections? A unique workshop that engaged facilitators and participants as they explored complex topics while creating a zine.

Portraits of Jung Mi Scoulas and Sandra De Groote on grey backgrounds. Jung Mi Scoulas, pictured left, is wearing a black jacket, earrings and a necklace. Sandra De Groote, pictured right, is wearing a navy and white polka dotted shirt.

UIC Library receives second grant to support student success

The University of Illinois Chicago Library has received a second National Leadership Grant for more than $245,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to train librarians across the U.S. for a student-success assessment project.

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