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Update on Casa Italia Chicago Library/Archives--LISTEN TO Oral histories while you read the transcipts

Update on Casa Italia Chicago Library/Archives--LISTEN TO Oral histories while you read the transcipts

Dominic Candeloro (May 23, 2012)
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A collage of some of the 6500 publications on file in the Casa Italia Library. The volumes are cataloged online a Library Thing at http://www.librarything.com/catalog/ItalCulturalCenter.

We have made good progress in putting materials from the Casa Italia library online and we are continuing to add to the site. Give us a visit.
https://sites.google.com/site/chicagoitalianarchives/home

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 We have made good progress in putting materials from the Casa Italia (Chicago) Library online and we are continuing to add to the site.  Give us a visit at


https://sites.google.com/site/chicagoitalianarchives/home
Go to http://www.librarything.com/catalog/ItalCulturalCenter  To locate a book on the shelf, click on the open book symbol (detail page) to the left of  the green + plus sign in each entry.  
Visit the Italians in Chicago Historic Exhibit of Casa Italia at http://picasaweb.google.com/Dominic.Candeloro/ItaliansInChicagoPhotoExhibit#


See the Art Treasures of Casa italia at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loqXCg-CVH8

This is a somewhat random list of the archival materials that we have so far uploaded:
-1933 Telephone Directory of Italians in Chicago (produced by the Provenzano brothers)
-Santa Maria Addolorata 1953 Souvenir Book
-Link to audio file of 1979 interview with Egidio Clemente, editor of La Parola del Popolo
-Celebrating 60 Years of Service Above Self---Amerital Unico in Chicago---the sponsors of the Lakefront Feste Italiane 1970s-1990s.

-Fra Noi Columnists' Archives
-Anthony Sorrentino Compilation of "Comentary" columns 1980-1984 Rena Trevor Food and Culture columns
-Maurice Marchello "Chicago Paesani" columns 1960's
-Mario Avignone - "Petals from Roseland" columns 1969-1973 1974-1980 1981-1984 1985-1991 1992-1996 1997-2000 2001-2008 2008-2011 (C J Martello)

YouTube Videos 

Mar 31 2012 - Genealogy Update - Dan Niemiec and Tony Maro
Mar 24 2012 - Easter Baking Italian Style - Teresa D'Allesandro Helfand, Mirella Alfano, Enza Freschini and Antonietta Girardi Coming Soon
Mar 23 2012 - Three Paesani Poets Part I Part II - Judith Valente, Albert DeGenova and Donna Pucciani 
Jan 6 2012 - Anti-Italianism Lecture - Part I Part II Part III Part IV
Nov 18 2011 - Authors' Night - Paul Giaimo "Appreciating Don Delillo" & Frank Cicero "Relative Strangers"
Anthony Scariano
Oct 8 2011 - Reconstructing Italians in Chicago - Presented by Fred Gardaphe' 
Jul 16 2011 - Children's Summer Camp - Summer camp children sing the Italian National Anthem
Immersion Weekend Casa Italia Immersion Weekend explained by Anna Clara Ionta
Trigiani

Communes Of Italy - Issue List
Communes Of Italy is Italian Genealogy, culture and all things Italian. It was published bi-monthly between 1998 and 2010. Each issue includes detailed information about a featured province and once each year an Annual Surname List is included. All 76 issues are available and some may be purchased. A great resource for beginning and advanced genealogists as well as those interested in an in-depth look at a particular province or area.

Italians In Chicago Oral History Project
The Italians in Chicago Project was a two-year program based at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, History Department, and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The project's purpose was to document the Italian American experience in Chicago. Oral history interviews with 113 Italian Americans living in the Chicago area were one component of the project. Men and women from three generations were interviewed regarding such topics as work, leisure, neighborhoods, family life, religion, interethnic events, and other special events. People from the following neighborhoods were interviewed: Belmont-Cragin, Bridgeport, Chicago Heights, Grand Avenue, Highwood, Kensington-Pullman-Roseland, Melrose Park, Near North, 24th & Oakley Avenue, and the Near West Side.

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