Academic Achievements
Illinois college and university libraries offer combined holdings of more than 47 million volumes, or 16.5 percent of the total volumes in the nation's academic libraries. In a typical week, 180 academic libraries in Illinois serve more than 780,000 students, faculty, and others. 
These collections range in size from a small college collection of less than 5,000 volumes to the libraries at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with collections totaling over 10,015,321 volumes. According to the Association of Research Libraries, two of the top U.S. libraries in terms of collection size are here in Illinois - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign if number three and the University of Chicago ranks twelth.
From Illinois Libraries Today, Illinois Library Association, August 2004.
Caption: Printers Marks Panel, one of the U. of I. Main Library's twenty-seven stained glass panels reproducing the emblem of a prominent Renaissance printer: Froben's trademark was a caduceus, held by two hands extending from clouds, with a crowned bird and crowned serpents' heads.
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Emerging Issues in Academic Library Cataloging & Technical Services
This report presents nine highly detailed case studies of leading university cataloging and technical service departments. It provide insights into how they are handling ten major changes facing them, including: the encouragement of cataloging productivity; impact of new technologies and enhancement of online catalogs; transition to metadata standards; cataloging of websites and digital and other special collections; library catalog and metadata training; database maintenance, holdings, and physical processing; relationship with Acquisitions; staff education; and other important issues. Survey participants represent academic libraries of varying sizes and classifications, with many different viewpoints. Universities surveyed are: Brigham Young; Curry College; Haverford College; Illinois, Louisiana and Pennsylvania State Universities; University of North Dakota; University of Washington; and Yale.
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