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Celebrate Frankenstein and Halloween with Special Collections and Archives!

DePaul Special Collections and Archives (SPCA) will be hosting an open house on October 31st as part of the world-wide celebration of the 200th anniversary of Frankenstein known as Frankenreads. Visitors can compare and interact with different editions of Frankenstein including two illustrated editions and other materials directly related to the novel. In honor of

Frankenstein Takes Over the Richardson Library on Halloween

Looking for a monstrously good time this Halloween? Join the Library and Studio CHI for Frankenweek, October 24-31. This celebration of the 200 year anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein demonstrates the range of work this seminal literary piece has inspired. The Media and Cinema Studies Program will be showing “Hideous Progeny: A Monster of a

“Fake” News, “Fast” News, and More: Project Information Literacy Releases National Study of Student Engagement with the News

Project Information Literacy has released a new report exploring “how U.S. college-age students are accessing, consuming, and engaging with news in the digital age” based on a landmark, mixed-methods study of almost 6,000 students drawn from 6 high schools and 11 colleges and universities across the country, including DePaul. The results of this study will

Can you Read this Handwriting? Come Participate in a Worldwide Transcribathon!

Join in a worldwide effort to transcribe a digitized 17th century manuscript by coming to the Scholars Lab, room 103, in the John T. Richardson Library on Thursday, October 25th from 1:00-5:00pm. The Transcribathon is being put on by the Early Modern Poetry Online Project or EMPOP. DePaul University will be joining the National University

Unwind the Mind with The Feather Thief, Featured Book for October

The Feather Thief tells the strange but true story of how hundreds of rare bird skins and feathers – many collected during the 19th century – were stolen in 2009 from the Tring Museum, a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. The thief, 20 year old Edwin Rist, was an accomplished musician

Library News for Faculty

News about library resources and services supporting teaching and scholarship at DePaul University

Faculty Development at Your Library

With the launch of the newly-named Center for Teaching and Learning, DePaul has taken the next step in designing, delivering, and assessing the impact of a coordinated approach to faculty development across core areas of teaching, learning, scholarship, and engagement. While the library has been a long-time partner in teaching and learning programs across our

Open Access Publishing by College at DePaul University

Open Access (OA) refers to research that is made freely available online. One of the most recent additions to the Library’s repertoire of Research Guides is the Open Access Guide which provides pointers to OA policies and resources and describes the ways in which a publication can be made openly accessible. An interesting feature of

New Learning Outcomes at the Library

Classroom instruction is one important way that librarians engage with DePaul students, as we collaborate with faculty to teach how to find and evaluate information pursued both for course-related research and lifelong learning. This past academic year, the library participated in a university-wide process to revise and update our instruction learning outcomes. We recognize that

New Research Meet & Greet Series

Studio Chi and the DePaul University Library have teamed up to launch Research Meet & Greet, a monthly networking and research sharing forum designed to foster collaboration and innovation across disciplines. The Research Meet and Greet series focuses on spreading the word about the projects and research developed across the University and consists of invited

DePaul Joins the Black Metropolis Research Consortium

The DePaul University Library has joined the Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC), an association of more than a dozen libraries, institutions of higher education, and archival repositories sharing the mission to “connect all who seek to document, share, understand, and preserve Black experiences.” BMRC promotes the discovery, preservation, and use of “materials that document African

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