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Caption: Book - Research on Campus (1949)
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Some Products of Research Are Books Photographs on coven- and pages 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11 (top and lower right), 13, 14 (top), 10 (top)," 17 (bottom), 19, 20 (top), 23, 24, 25 (bottom), 2(i, 27, 28 (top and right), 29, 30 (top), 31 (top), 35 (bottom), 12, and 13 by John F. Garfield; page 16 (lower right) by Fran Byrne; page 22 (right) by Wide World Photos; page 40 (bottom) by Illinois State Museum; others by University Photographic Service, University Illustration Studio, and staff members. BOOKS ARE laboratories for history, languages, and literature. T h e University of Illinois library, with two and one-half million books, is the seventh largest in the world, third largest among universities, largest among publically supported universities. From this great laboratory come each year a series of notable scholarly books. T h e volumes at the top of the page (all published by the University of Illinois Press) are some of these. They include two monuments of recent literary scholarship: Professor Harris Fletcher's facsimile edition of Milton, and Professor T. W. Baldwin's series of studies of Shakespeare's education and literary development. Among the hundreds of research projects now under way in this area of the humanities are subjects as different as a monumental study of the Aesopic tradition and a series of studies in the history of Illinois and the Middle West; the first grammar of the Afghan language and a biography of Marcel Proust; a new American edition of Goethe and a linguistic atlas of Illinois. in a common everyday way by farmers, businessmen, homemakers, laborers, professional men, teachers, school children — anyone to whom the gathering research knowledge of the University can be helpful. More than a million of these booklets are printed every year and distributed to the citizens of Illinois by way of sharing what the University discovers with the people whom the University represents. SOMETIMES T H E end product of research is not a book at all. Sometimes it is a fact about matter or energy which does not seem to be of practical importance until it appears in such a tangible form as atomic energy. Sometimes it is a new understanding of the life process, or a chemical or drug or vaccine which saves h u m a n life. Sometimes it is an engineering development which makes life safer (like stronger metals and bridges), or more enjoyable (like sound motion pictures, which were developed at Illinois in 1922). Sometimes it is a new or improved crop (like the soybeans and hybrid corn now growing in Illinois). Sometimes it is a way to help a deaf child live like other children. But very often research results go into booklets like those shown below. These are written so as to be usable Page 48
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