Day: October 17, 2013

More than Just a “Gateway”: DePaul Faculty on the Library Role in Teaching, Learning, and Research

During the Spring Quarter, DePaul University was one of a dozen institutions across the country (and the only one in Illinois other than the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) to participate in the pilot of the local version of the Ithaka Faculty Survey, a national survey of faculty perspectives on

Information Commons opens in the JTR

Although students had been gathering at and using it since the beginning of the quarter, the John T. Richardson Library’s Information Commons celebrated its grand opening on September 24, 2013. Over 300 visitors, including Provost Don Pope-Davis, were treated to tours of the new facility, Banned Books Week button-making, and

Early English Books Online Now Available At DePaul

This powerful resource contains over 125,000 titles, allowing users to view and search digital facsimiles of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. It includes the first book printed in English by William Caxton; early quarto

New Roles for Library Staff

Over the summer, a number of staff members moved into new and/or expanded roles as the DePaul University Library continues to focus on enhancing existing services while also focusing new attention on areas identified in its newly-adopted strategic plan. Among the staff members with new administrative portfolios in the library