Glad Lucia!

Tech Week! Opening night! 1st of 8 performances in the #ParklandCollege Theater.

#tbr stack number 1. But I actually might end up looking at the inside of my eyelids instead!

Alice Hudson, Librarian Who Built a Trove of Historic Maps, Dies at 77 📜📚 www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/n...

Suddenly the last day before Thankgiving has filled up with more choices than time available! On my desk today choice number 4 -- South-Central Africa Shewing the British & German Possessions, June 28, 1890 issue of The Graphic. Processing to add to: go.library.illinois.edu/AfricaMaps

Day before a 4-day holiday weekend.... On my desk, choice 3 -- writing documentation for #NACIS committees

The day before a long holiday weekend.... Choices, choices..... On my desk choice 2 -- to catalog and add to our small but growing collection of fantasy and literary maps, a set of maps for Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series.

The day before a long holiday weekend.... And I can't quite decide what to focus on. On my desk today -- choice 1..... Civil War newspaper maps to catalog and prep for adding to go.library.illinois.edu/CivilWarMaps

On my desk today: Total Eclipse by @kennethfield.bsky.social It made it back to Champaign safely from #NACIS2024 in Tacoma ... but a month later still is a little bit curled from being rolled in my suitcase.

Big University Foundation/donor event last week celebrating the 100th anniversary of the #UIUC Main Library building. Map Library was there with maps published during the 1920s.

Preparing for the annual University Library graduate assistant training session about Special Collections Division collections and services. #UIUC

Not everything fit in last Friday's exhibit for the 100th anniversary celebration of the #UIUC Main Library building -- so we put together a supplemental exhibit in the Map Library.

On my desk today -- to catalog and add to the collection. We collect data-driven maps fairly aggressively from @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com but maps appear rarely in the local paper.

On my desk today -- 3 different editions of the same atlas with no easily identified differences except for the edition statement and no publication date!

Big donor event celebrating the 100th anniversary of the #UIUC University Library building. Including maps that many found exciting!