Please note that the University Archives and Special Collections at Illinois Tech will be closed the following days during the summer:

Wednesday June 26, 2019 - CLOSED

Thursday July 04, 2019 - CLOSED

Friday July 05, 2019 - CLOSED

Tuesday July 15, 2019 - CLOSED

The UASC Reading Room will be open for a rare morning on Friday April 5 from 9am-11:45am. We will be closed during our usual open hours 1:00pm-5:00pm for professional development. See you bright and early Friday morning!

University Archives and Special Collections is conscious of its responsibility to collect IIT’s history back to its earliest roots, including its relations with its neighborhood. In the fall of 2018, the unit discovered a scrapbook on eBay that had been assembled by an Armour Institute student in around 1910. The posting’s sample photographs demonstrated that the scrapbook not only documented aspects of on-campus student life, but also people and institutions of the surrounding neighborhood. On the strength of that evaluation, UASC and Galvin Library decided to purchase the scrapbook.

The Kemper Room in Galvin Library is hosting an exhibit of work by Benjamin de Brie Taylor, artist and educator, through the end of November. Brie Taylor is a former Director of the Institute of Design, and Professor Emeritus. His book, "Design Lessons From Nature" explores the significance of the natural world in an artist's development, and is based on an intro-level art class he taught at the Pratt Institute in 1968.