PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 26, No. 3, Aug. 3, 2006

brief notes

Illini football
Ticket discount offered to faculty/staff
Sideline tickets for UI football, normally $42 each, will be available to UI faculty and staff members for the Sept. 2 season-opening game for $20. The game, against Eastern Illinois University, begins at 6 p.m. at Memorial Stadium.

To purchase tickets, go to www.uiuc.edu/goto/tickets. Enter the promotional code UIUC in capital letters and click “Go.”

Tickets may also be purchased at the athletic ticket office at Assembly Hall. Those who purchase their tickets at the window must provide their faculty/staff ID card. Tickets are available now and must be purchased no later than 5 p.m. Aug. 31.

The game has been designated Military Day. Members of the U.S. armed forces who have served from the state of Illinois since Sept. 11, 2001, will be honored. Post-game fireworks are scheduled.

UI Library and WILL-AM-FM-TV
Learn to preserve home movies Aug. 12
If getting people to watch your home movies is like herding cats, maybe the problem isn’t the content, but rather, the physical quality of the movies.

If that’s the case, help is on the way during the campus’s first  “Home Movie Day” on Aug. 12. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be from 1 to 5 p.m. in Studio X of Campbell Hall for Public Telecommunication.

The event will emphasize the importance of preserving film, and specifically home movies, as historic documents in the life of the culture and the family, say Annette Morris and Jimi Jones, event coordinators. Morris is brittle books coordinator in the University Library and Jones is a student in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

The University Library and WILL-AM-FM-TV are co-sponsoring the event, which is being held in conjunction with the national event.
During Home Movie Day, library staff members will assess, inspect, clean and project home movies in 8mm and 16mm formats. Specialists also will be on hand to discuss preservation issues and techniques.

Snippets of historic films from the University Archives also will be shown, including scenes from a period film with UI legend Red Grange playing football, appearances by John F. Kennedy when he visited the campus, a short interview with Eleanor Roosevelt when she was at the UI and other events featuring Illinois and its students.

Popcorn and beverages will be served.

The organizers request that participants drop off their films at Campbell Hall a day or two before the event so that experts will have time to inspect and clean films for projection on Saturday.

Morris and Jones can be contacted at morrisa@.uiuc.edu and jjones7@ uiuc.edu.

Home Movie Day began in 2003, the inspiration of the Center for Home Movies, a private not-for-profit corporation dedicated to the preservation, study and promotion of home movies and amateur films.

50th anniversary celebration
Agronomy Day will be Aug. 17
In addition to the usual tours and tent displays highlighting the latest developments in agricultural research, this year’s Agronomy Day will feature ceremonies celebrating the campus event’s 50th anniversary.

Agronomy Day 2006 will be from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 17. The theme for this year’s event is “50 Years of Progress.” Hour-long wagon tours around the research plots will begin at 7 a.m. and repeat every half-hour as groups are available. The last tour will leave at 11:30 a.m. At noon near the main registration tent, a special program will commemorate the progress made at the UI in agricultural research during the last half century.

“Agronomy Day serves as an annual showcase in which faculty have an opportunity to discuss their latest research findings with clientele from Illinois and neighboring states,” said Pat Tranel, professor of molecular weed science in the department of crop sciences and chairperson for Agronomy Day.

This year’s event is a partnership among several academic units in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. The event will be held at the Crop Sciences Research and Education Center, which is located south of the main Urbana-Champaign campus off St. Mary’s Road on Wright Street extended.

Several tour stops will highlight the major progress in agricultural research that has taken place during the past 50 years. The featured speaker at the noon program will be Eldon Gould, administrator of the USDA Risk Management Agency.

For additional information, contact Sharon Conatser at 333-4256. A map and information are available online at www.cropsci.uiuc.edu/agronomyday.

Chicago gallery of the UI
Two new I space exhibitions announced
Two new exhibitions – one highlighting livable residential architecture, the other featuring paintings and sketches of a former Chicago Tribune art director/illustrator – will be on view Aug. 4 through 26 at I space, the Chicago gallery of the UI’s Urbana-Champaign campus.

”Affordable Housing: Designing an American Asset” is a nationally touring exhibition that draws attention to the pressing need for more affordable – yet well-designed – housing stock in the United States. The exhibition showcases design concepts for more than a dozen current projects by some of the nation’s most talented and inspired architects, providing proof that it is possible to build attractive, efficient homes to accommodate families in both urban and rural environments. The designs are presented on 18 free-standing kiosks.

The traveling exhibition and associated tour were organized by the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., and made possible by grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fannie Mae Foundation, and National Association of Realtors.

More information about the exhibition is available online at www.nbm.org/Exhibits/current/affordable_housing.html.

“Cathie Bleck: Open Spaces” is the first Chicago solo exhibition for the Cleveland-based artist and alumna of the UI’s School of Art and Design. The show features work from her limited-edition book, also titled “Open Spaces.” A book-signing will be held simultaneously with the opening reception for both shows, from 3-6 p.m. Aug. 5. Bleck also will present a lecture at the gallery at 7 p.m. Aug. 25 during a closing reception, scheduled from 6-8 p.m.

Bleck began her career as art director and staff illustrator at the Chicago Tribune in the 1980s. Her illustrations appear regularly on the op-ed pages of The New York Times, and she also has received commissions from The Wall Street Journal, Martha Stewart Living and from Jimmy Carter, among others.

More information about the artist and her book is available online at www.cathiebleck.com.

I space is located at 230 W. Superior St., Chicago. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

UI Libraries
Libraries change names, location
The Chemistry Library will move to a new home this summer and several other libraries and units have been renamed to better reflect their collections, services and the departments they serve.

After more than 90 years on the building’s second floor, the Chemistry Library will relocate to a more accessible space on the first floor as part of an extensive renovation of Noyes Laboratory.

“The current library works well for books, but the new library will be much better for people,” said Tina Chrzastowski, chemistry librarian. “It will provide a clean, well-lighted place to read, conduct research, study, ask questions, find library resources, and access electronic materials.”

In its new location, the Chemistry Library will offer more public computer workstations, ample study carrels and tables, two small group-study rooms, wireless access, and an electronic conference room for class instruction, meetings, and seminars. It also will provide casual, comfortable spaces to browse new journals and books.

Other changes:

• The Applied Life Studies Library has been renamed the Applied Health Sciences Library (corresponding to the college’s name change).
• The Illinois Historical Survey Library has been renamed Illinois History and Lincoln Collections (the service point for users is now Room 422 Main Library instead of Room 346).
• The Information Resource and Retrieval Center has been renamed Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery.
  

Illinois Fire Service Institute
Exhibit features significant Illinois fires
 “Significant Fires and Emergencies in Illinois History” is the theme of a new exhibit on display through Aug. 31 at the UI Library. The UI Fire Service Institute library is sponsoring the exhibit.

The exhibit features 16 “Significant Fires” posters that were produced by the institute’s library during the last year. The display also details the history of IFSI, including the annual Fire College and other training efforts.  Featured materials include photographs, books, posters and other materials from the institute since 1925.

The exhibit is located along the central north-south hallway of the main UI library and can be viewed during regular library hours.
The Illinois Fire Service Institute is the statutory fire academy for the state of Illinois. In addition to training provided at the Champaign campus, the institute offers online classes and conducts training throughout the state at regional training centers and local fire stations.

For more information about the display, contact Adam Groves at 265-6107.

University Archives
Survey to assess document scanning
The University Archives is conducting a survey of employees who engage in records and information management and/or document scanning to understand how the university may better support these activities. The results will be used to share best practices and provide cost-effective recommendations. To access the survey, visit https://webtools.uiuc.edu/survey/OrganizationSecure?id=1077903.

For more information, contact Joanne Kaczmarek, archivist for electronic records, at 333-6834 or jkaczmar@illinois.edu.

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