For those of you not familiar with library lingo, shelf reading is the process of checking a collection for improperly shelved materials.
Without patrons, we are now getting a chance in Special Collections to do some collection care. Check card catalog, check shelf, repeat ad nauseam. Shelf reading is never terribly exciting, but we have found some interesting bindings.
It’s also good to iron out the occasional mis-shelving from decades of patron requests... You never know what you have until you’ve had to shift every single book!
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“Shelf-Reading” is an ongoing series where we feature various items in the Read/Write Library’s collection of location-specific, independent, and small press media.
In 1833, the same year two hundred settlers organized the town of Chicago, another nucleus of settlers began gathering about thirty miles south. Their community grew into a miniature, parallel version of its northern neighbor: a Rust Belt boomtown with its own Louis Sullivan architecture and the nickname "Crossroads of America."
Images of America: Chicago Heights tells this story in photographs. Originally it was a farming village in southeastern Cook County called Thorn Grove, and then Bloom. The town took its third and final name in 1892 at the behest of some local real estate magnates, who called themselves the Chicago Heights Land Association. (Trivia: the association president was Chicago businessman Charles Wacker, who lent his surname to the Loop's Wacker Drive.)
Thanks to the association's aggressive development incentives, "the Heights" evolved into a city on the make, an important manufacturing center for two world wars and a choice destination for immigrants. The location was prime, featuring the best railroad shipping facilities in the country and the junction of the intercontinental Lincoln and Dixie Highways (hence "Crossroads of America").
Chicago Heights acquired appropriate ornaments for its prosperity: a columned Andrew Carnegie library; an elegant art deco high-school building that is now a national landmark; a lavish movie palace; and the Louis Sullivan-designed Victoria Hotel, originally built to house overflow crowds from the 1892 Columbian Exposition. Chicago Heights suffered after heavy industry declined, but remains a pillar of the greater South Side.
Area preservationists curated the photos for the 1998 Images of America book. Subjects include railroad depots, old-time butcher shops, diverse and lively neighborhoods, the 1960 visit of Eleanor Roosevelt, horse-drawn fire engines, and...wakes and funerals. (A century ago, it was customary in the local Italian community to take pictures of the deceased and send them to relatives back in Europe.)
The co-authors are Dominic Candeloro and Barbara Paul. Candeloro, a historian who taught at Governors State University in south suburban University Park and worked in the Chicago Heights mayor's office, is now the library curator for Chicago's Casa Italia. Paul was the director of the Chicago Heights Public Library for forty years until her retirement in 2007. She died in 2009.
Chicago Heights is one of several local history books in the Read/Write collection from Arcadia Publishing's Images of America series. According to the back cover, the series "celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the country. Using archival photographs, each title presents the distinctive stories from the past that shape the character of the community today."
--Justin Sengstock
[Justin Sengstock is a Read/Write Library cataloger and blog editor. In his non-RWL life, he is a south suburban writer focusing on social justice and religion. Justin’s writing has appeared in the books Hungering and Thirsting for Justice and An Irrepressible Hope, both published by Chicago-based ACTA in 2012. Justin is a graduate of Loyola University Chicago.]
