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News about library resources and services for DePaul University students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends

Celebrate National Poetry Month!

This edition of the Full Text is brought to you by members of the DePaul University Library EDGE Team: Danielle Comp, Emily Getner, and Kaitlyn Grady. They have been sharing their perspectives as first-year students and new users of University Library services in a series of career skill-building projects this year. Read on to find… Read More

Celebrating National Student Employment Week

This year, National Student Employment Week coincided with National Library Week from April 9-13. The DePaul University Library employs 50 student workers across all departments where they process new items, reshelve books, create digital content, and connect library users to the information they need. To acknowledge our students’ contributions to the efficient operation of both… Read More

A Tour of Special Collections through Poetry

In honor of National Poetry Month Patricia Chavez and Nora Gabor will take you on a tour of our collections through poetry. You can find poetry in all corners of Special Collections and Archives, both in the expected literature sections and in more surprising places. In our stacks you can find multiple editions of Milton’s… Read More

Library Workshops for Transfer Students

Join other transfer students and a librarian to find out how the DePaul University Library can support you during your academic career. At these Library Workshops for Transfer Students, you’ll learn how to find useful articles and books for your papers and projects. You’ll also find out how to get the most out of our… Read More

Libraries Lead! Celebrate National Library Week 2018

This edition of the Full Text is brought to you by members of the DePaul University Library EDGE Team: Eryn Fleener, PJ Hase, and Nick May. They have been sharing their perspectives as first-year students and new users of University Library services in a series of career skill-building projects this year. Read on to find… Read More

Library News for Faculty

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

Consuming News in a “Post-Truth” Era

Last year, the DePaul University Library joined libraries, museums, scientific organizations, and others in promoting the Day of Facts, “an international social media campaign allowing … trusted public sources of knowledge to share mission-related content … as this relates to the role of these institutions in promoting an educated public and an informed electorate.” Like… Read More

“Opening” Education at DePaul

Following the 2014 Teaching and Learning Conference, the DePaul University Library made a strategic commitment to engaging with colleagues across the university to promote greater use of open education resources, including open access journal and books, freely-available media and learning objects, and open textbooks. What began as a commitment years earlier to increasing access to… Read More

1581 Studios Now Available for Reservation

The third phase of the John T. Richardson Library renovation extended the open-plan computing of the Information Commons to the second floor of the Library to include the CoRE (Collaborative Research Environment), with Mac and Windows workstations powerful enough to handle CPU-intensive applications used in digital mapping, text and data mining, 3D modeling, graphic design,… Read More

Learning from the “Inside”: Prisoner Art and Advocacy in the Archives

DePaul University’s Special Collections and Archives has long been distinguished by the ways in which the university mission is reflected in our collections, services, and programs, with special attention given to DePaul’s commitment to teaching and to social justice. Our current exhibit, INCARCERATION: Art, Activism & Advocacy, showcases the creativity, resilience, dialogue, and agency of incarcerated… Read More

Teaching with Data from ICPSR

Data are everywhere. Data are being streamed both to our phones and from our phones, data are being made available to the public faster than we can possibly consume it, and researchers are increasingly being required to share their data in public repositories. As we move from being consumers of data to being data sources… Read More

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