The Past is Present!

Early in 2008, the Sterling Morton Library joined Digital Past.

• Digital Past, based at the North Suburban Library System, offers a treasure trove of photographs, postcards, diaries, oral histories, documents, movies, interpretive exhibits, and other historical materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural venues throughout Illinois.

Our participation in this effort has provided us with a venue to digitally present a host of our resources to a greater audience. Over the next months, we’ll be continually adding a wide range of resources from our collections to this site. Whew!

Curious about earlier Arboretum publications? The complete run of Plant Information Bulletin has been scanned and is now available for viewing. Questions about searching Digital Past? Please email me at rhassert@mortonarb.org

Be sure to bookmark this site and watch as we add additional resources!

Articles of note in the Sterling Morton Library : August/September’s offerings

These are some recent articles that can be found within the journal collection of the Sterling Morton Library. Please visit the Library to discover the incredible botanical and horticultural resources that await you! If you are unable to visit the Library and interested in reviewing one of these articles, I would be delighted to help you at rhassert@mortonarb.org.

Arvidson, Adam Regn. Jens Jensen in 2008: how is the master’s legacy holding on in a vastly changed Chicago? Landscape Architecture, v. 98, no. 8, p. 68-76.
This article features the work of Jens Jensen in the Chicagoland community including Columbus Park, Garfield Park and the Becker Estate. Interested in a further exploration of Jensen’s legacy? The Sterling Morton Library has a rich collection of photographs, landscape plans, letters and other items related to this significant landscape architect.

Beahrs, Andrew. The “prairie hens” of Illinois. Living Bird, v. 27, no. 3, p. 22-30.

Dietze, Michael C. and J.S. Clark. Changing the gap dynamics paradigm: vegetative regeneration control on forest response to disturbance. Eclogical Monographs, v. 78, no. 3, p. 331-347.

Isbell, Forest I., David A. Losure, Kathryn A. Yurkonis and Brian J. Wilsey. Diversity–productivity relationships in two ecologically realistic rarity–extinction scenarios. Oikos, v. 117, p. 996-1005.

Lancaster, Roy. China, mother of gardens. Gardens Illustrated, no. 140, p. 68-71.

Lasseigne, F. Todd. Sciadopitys – the other living fossil. Conifer Quarterly, v. 25, no. 3, p. 6-10.

Reich, Peter B., et al. Scaling of respiration to nitrogen in leaves, stems and roots of higher land plants. Ecology Letters, v. 11, no. 8, p. 793-801.