025/04. Galvin Library

Description of the Collection

Materials produced by Vincent Golden on a hand press as examples of the hand printing process. Created by Golden during his tenure as Illinois Institute of Technology's Special Collections Librarian.

Content Description

Galvin Gazette is a newsletter published by the staff at Illinois Tech's Paul V. Galvin Library.

Content Description

Materials produced by award-winning fine art photographer Jane Olin, including prints and exhibition catalogs. Materials include images, lists, documentation, and promotional materials for Olin's "In the Company of Trees" exhibition, which was housed in Illinois Tech's Kemper Room (Paul V. Galvin Library) from September 2023 to March 2024.

Description of the Collection

Materials related to the Galvin Library: 1) materials related to the installation of the Innovacq Library System including budgets and training 2) Informational brochure about the Galvin Library, c.1993 3) Flyer for IIT Archives Lecture Series, 2008 4) Clerical Manual, ca. 1982 5) Clerical Manual, 1986 6) Agenda for IIT Libraries Working Group, 2008

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Two bound notebooks with hand written entries logging the "Description of Problem/Event" handled by Galvin Library computer technicians. Books are titled Larry and Harris, presumably the names of the computers/servers being serviced. Book Larry has 29 pages of entries (1983-1992). Book Harris has only four entries (8 lines total) dated 1992-1995.

Description of the Collection Research material gathered and created by Galvin Library staff members Jan Figa, Vince Golden, and Alison Atkins Denton in support of Galvin Library's "Voices of the Holocaust" website, which features information on (as well as audio links to, and transcriptions of) the interviews conducted by Illinois Institute of Technology professor David P. Boder in displaced persons camps in Europe in 1946. Materials include photocopies from Dr. Boder's papers at the UCLA Special Collections (including...

Description of the Collection Set of 180 DAT tapes, labeled as "Set 2", which are the digital surrogates made by Versation Corp. of the wire recordings made by David Boder of Holocaust survivors in 1937. Surrogates were made by Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division for Galvin Library for posting on the Voices of the Holocaust website. The original set of tapes is assumed to be held by Library of Congress. Also included are 22 CD-ROMs which contain the same audio content in...

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Office Files of and records created by Christopher Stewart, Dean of Libraries. Some of them materials were created by prior library directors, David Dowell and Sohair ElBaz Wastawy.

Description of the Collection

Four cork coasters, 3.75" square with IIT logo (triangle) incised on it. Reads "Paul V. Galvin Library/Illinois Institute of Technology." Back has felt covering. Artifact. Three labyrinth ribbons (one red and gold, one black and silver, one Blue and gold) designed by Laura Foster Nicholson and Ben Nicholson (design copyright Laura Foster Nicholson, 2002).

Description of the Collection

Materials gathered or created by University Archivist Catherine Bruck (Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago).