From any campus machine or proxy server, University researchers have access to all of the more than 100,000 dissertations that UMI has put online since 1997, not just the 2,400 or so originating at Chicago. When users decide to download a dissertation, within minutes it's sent to their e-mail address, waiting to be read or printed. In 5,864 ProQuest sessions last year, Chicago users conducted 27,316 searches and downloaded 4,532 dissertations. ProQuest now accepts dissertations in PDF format, which could be described as just one step away from a word-processing file. Don't even think about glue sticks.
Rubber cement is verboten too.
Sed tempus fugit. By the time this article reached print, the deadlines had advanced as well. If the tables or figures are placed at the end, they must be gathered in an appendix, e.g., Appendix A, Tables, or Appendix B, Figures. They must not simply appear at the end of a chapter of bibliography. Herman Howe Fussler, AM'41, PhD'48, the University Library's director from 1948 until 1971, came to Chicago in 1936 to start a department of photographic reproduction.