Check out our new web guide designed for scholars interested in using digital photography for archival research.
Author: Ross Geoffrey
AskHPNL – Instant Message Us!
Introducing our new IM reference service. Between normal business hours (M-F), IM us at AskHPNL on AIM, Yahoo, or MSN.
UPDATE: SERVICE DISCONTINUED
New Latin American Newspaper Database
Announcing Latin American Newsstand, a database featuring recent content from 41 newspaper titles covering Central and South America and beyond.
More details on our featured resources page.
Current Periodicals Guide Enhanced
Use our enhanced guide to browse by subject for print and online periodicals from HPNL, Stacks, and other libraries.
Take Us With You: Using the Library from Anywhere
Courtesy of the Reference Library, this site is designed to assist UIUC affiliates access library content from off-campus and across the globe. Also learn how to configure Google Scholar for off-campus use.
UPDATE: NO LONGER AVAILABLE
Olin Digital Film Archive Launched
HPNL announces the Chuck Olin Digital Film Archive. The archive includes streaming video interviews featuring first-hand accounts from soldiers of the Jewish Brigade.
Mass Observation Online
Mass Observation Online provides integrated access to approx. 115,000 digital images of material from the Mass Observation Project, an extensive social survey conducted in Britain during 1937 to early 1950s. More info (no longer available)
Introducing the Digital Urbana Daily Courier 1916-1925
Published from 1897 through March 1979 under a succession of titles, the Urbana Daily Courier provides rich documentation of the development of commerce and industry, the course of local and regional politics, and the history of cultural and social life in our community, as well as the local experience of global events.
Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO)
MEMSO provides a large and growing resource of essential medieval and early modern sources relating to British and Irish history on-line.
More info about MEMSO.
New Subscription: 19th Century U.S. Newspapers
19th Century U.S. Newspapers, a full-text searchable, facsimile-image database, provides access to approximately 1.7 million pages of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century.
More info about 19th Century U.S. Newspapers.