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John Crerar Library @CrerarLibrary

Crerar Library is the Science and Medicine Library at the University of Chicago

Joined March 2009
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John Crerar Library@CrerarLibrary
30 Aug 2018
For current updates about Crerar Library, follow us at @UChicagoLibrary, our new unified University of Chicago Library Twitter account.
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The University of Chicago@UChicago
17 Aug 2018
When you open up a browser window in “privacy mode,” do you know who’s watching? According to research from #UChicago, most users carry misconceptions about what these features do and don’t do: ms.spr.ly/6013rfUpf #Incognito #OnlinePrivacy
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7 black and white photos of #librarylife. No humans, no explanations. Day 7/7
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7 black and white photos of #librarylife. No humans, no explanations. Day 6/7
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7 black and white photos of library life. No humans no explanation. 5/7
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7 black and white photos of #librarylife. No humans, no explanations. Day 4/7
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7 black and white photos of #librarylife. No humans, no explanations. Day 3/7
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UChicago Library@UChicagoLibrary
9 Aug 2018
🧡📚 Definitely 📚🧡
UChicago Magazine@UChicagoMag
9 Aug 2018
It's National Book Lovers Day and we are fine with it. (We suspect many of you are too.)
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UChicago Special Collections Research Center@UChicagoSCRC
8 Aug 2018
All aboard today's #ArchivesHashtagParty party bus! Er, cable car. Party cable car. This 1882 photo of a cable grip car and trailers, 55th Street, Jackson Park can be found in our UChicago Photographic Archive: photoarchive.lib.uchicago.ed… #Archives80s @USNatArchives
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7 black and white photos of #librarylife. No humans, no explanations. Day 2/7
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Challenged by @UChicagoReg 7 black and white photos of #librarylife. No humans, no explanations. Day 1/7
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The University of Chicago@UChicago
8 Aug 2018
The #UChicago community mourns the loss of Ted Petry, who was the last known living person to witness the first-ever controlled, self-sustaining nuclear reaction in 1942 on campus. ms.spr.ly/6017rfV0v
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UChicago Library@UChicagoLibrary
7 Aug 2018
Lighthouse at Little Sable Point, Michigan. Photo part of the University of Chicago Department of Botany Records. #NationalLighthouseDay @UChicagoSCRC photoarchive.lib.uchicago.ed…
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UChicago Library@UChicagoLibrary
3 Aug 2018
Meet our new GIS and Maps Librarian, Cecilia Smith: news.lib.uchicago.edu/blog/2…
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We are saddened by the loss of our colleague June Pachuta Farris, Bibliographer for Slavic and East European Studies, 1947-2018: news.lib.uchicago.edu/blog/2…
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UChicago Special Collections Research Center@UChicagoSCRC
24 Jul 2018
#HappyBirthday #WilliamRaineyHarper first president of @uchicago! Born #otd in 1856. Here is with parents #SamuelHarper, #EllenElizabethRaineyHarper, and brothers Robert Francis, and Samuel. WR is on the left. #uchicagohistory #uchicagobirthdays
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It's #NationalHotDogDay! While you're celebrating check out our Crerar exhibit about the history of hot dogs and sausages in Chicago: lib.uchicago.edu/collex/exhi… …
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UChicago Library@UChicagoLibrary
17 Jul 2018
Who picked a Library temporary tattoo during Orientation Week? #NationalTattooDay
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The University of Chicago@UChicago
9 Jul 2018
50 feet underneath #UChicago’s Mansueto Library, the Automated Storage and Retrieval System is hard at work — organizing up to 20,000 books in a single day. (📸: rjsheehan5/Instagram)
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It's #NationalMojitoDay! Luckily Crerar has some books about it including recipes and some history: pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat… ; pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat…
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