New online portal unites region's many archival collections, empowering scholars and students with greater access to Chicago history.

October 22, 2015

Chicago Collections Consortium (CCC) launched its flagship initiative, Explore Chicago Collections, a free, centralized, web-based search engine and record-finding tool that allows researchers, teachers, students, and the general public to locate or access over 100,000 maps, photos, letters, and other archival materials held at its 21 member institutions. Users can browse an enormous wealth of digital material (as well as guides for locating physical objects related to Chicago history) by topic, neighborhood, city, and more. Additional resources available through the site include library guides, a virtual reference service, educational material, and more recently, digital exhibits. A program to celebrate the launch of the portal was held on November 5 at Chicago Public Library with keynote speaker, Donald J. Waters, Senior Program Officer for Scholarly Communications at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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