Chicago Public Library -- Archives
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Chicago Public Library Archives. Harold Washington Library Center, Design Build Competition Records
Collection
Identifier: spe-l00120
Abstract
The Harold Washington Library Center Design Build Records document the process by which the design for Chicago Public Library’s new Central Library was chosen. On July 29, 1987, Mayor Washington and the City Council authorized a design/build competition and approved a bond issue to finance the project. Under the competition rules, architects and builders teamed up to design the new Central Library within the set price of $144 million. Norman Ross, Chairman of the Citizen Jury, announced the...
Dates:
1986 - 1991
Leland B. Elder, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: harsh-2016-02
Abstract
Leland B. Elder Jr. worked as part of the Chicago Public Library’s Public Information Office (PIO) for over thirty years (1984-2016). His responsibilities included editing and writing for the various incarnations of the library’s newsletters, marketing, press releases and promoting library programs and services. His papers detail the growth and development of the PIO and the Marketing Department of the Chicago Public Library showing the evolution of the ethnic heritage committees and the...
Dates:
1945 - 2016
One Book, Many Interpretations Collection
Collection
Identifier: spe-l00191
Abstract
This collection consists of 21 artist books and fine bindings that were displayed at two juried bookbinding exhibits—One Book, Many Interpretations in 2006 and One Book, Many Interpretations: Second Edition in 2011—coinciding with the fifth and tenth anniversaries of Chicago Public Library’s One Book, One Chicago program. The books, each drawing inspiration from a previous One Book, One...
Dates:
2006, 2011