Chicago Collections + Curious City Partnership Launches
“All abo-o-oard! New York-Chicago Air Route, Twenty-first Century Limited! Get your tickets ready! Airship sails in twenty minutes! All abo-o-oard!” Curious City and Chicago Collections are teaming up to help answer questions from the public. Check out our first story here and learn about the fascin… Read More >
Explore Chicago Collections Nominated for a DLF Comm/Cap Award
Chicago Collections is excited to be among the nominees for the 2016 Digital Library Federation’s Community/Capacity Award (DLF Comm/Caps, for short) for the creation of Explore Chicago Collections (EXPLORE) and Metadata Hopper, integrating access to Chicago’s Archives. Read More >
Seneca Wins Award for Explore Chicago Collections
Chicago Collections is proud to announce that our very own, Tracy Seneca, has been selected as the recipient of the 2016 Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Primary Source Award for Access for her outstanding leadership of the Explore Chicago Collections (EXPLORE) initiative. Read More >
New Season, New Members, New Findings
While winter continues to hang on here in the Midwest, Chicago Collections has entered a new season. This past month, we welcomed three new members, officially doubling our member base from twelve founding organizations at our inception, to today’s twenty-four member institutions. Read More >
Chicago Collections Awarded $25,000 Grant
The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation has awarded Chicago Collections a $25,000 grant to support general operations. Read More >
Announcing the Release of Explore Chicago Collections
Chicago Collections is proud to announce the launch of its flagship initiative, Explore Chicago Collections— a free, centralized, web-based search engine and record-finding tool that will allow researchers, teachers, students, and the general public to locate or access over 100,000 maps, photos, let… Read More >