Year: 2014

DePaul University Library Welcomes New Staff

Kyle Henke, Digital Archivist, comes to DePaul University from Columbia College where he established an institutional repository and managed the digital collections of the College Archives while integrating material into the classroom and the College community. Kyles role with Special Collections and Archives will be to acquire and preserve content

Open Educational Resources Expand Faculty and Student Options

Over the past decade, faculty across the country have worked to address concerns about the cost of educational materials for students as well as to explore the opportunities for new approaches to teaching through the use of open educational resources (OERs). Jos Antonio Bowen, author of Teaching Naked, and keynote

DePaul University Library Welcomes Digital Archivist, Kyle Henke

Kyle Henke comes to DePaul University from Columbia College where he established an institutional repository and managed the digital collections of the College Archives while integrating material into the classroom and the College community. As Digital Archivist, Kyle’s role with the DePaul University Special Collections and Archives will be to

Promoting Student Scholarship on Via Sapientiae

DePaul’s institutional repository, Via Sapientiae, supports student scholarship as faculty across the university begin to see the opportunities for teaching and professional development offered by this library-administered publishing platform. Built on the Digital Commons online publishing platform and administered by the University Library, Via Sapientiae supports the open access publishing needs

Digital Humanities Support in the Scholar’s Lab: The English Capstone Experience

Faculty hoping to incorporate digital humanities tools and methods into their teaching and research may find recent use of the Library’s new Scholar’s Lab for a senior English capstone course of interest.  Winner of the 2013 Thomas and Carol Dammrich Faculty Innovation Award and entitled Literature in the Age of Intelligent Machines, this

Practicum Student Provides Subject Expertise

When visiting the DePaul University Library, you’ve likely run across students pushing carts, shelving books and checking out material to patrons.  Perhaps you’ve received research assistance from one of our Peer-Research Tutors in person or late at night on our instant messaging service.  In Autumn Quarter 2013, we had the pleasure