News about library resources and services for DePaul University students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends
What makes a scholarly article scholarly? Who is an authority? Students new to the research process don’t necessarily understand that authority is constructed and contextual, or that the article they found using one of the Library’s EBSCO databases might have originally been published and distributed to an audience of researchers
This fall, faculty involved in the Chicago Quarter program, and those with an interest in the greater Chicago area, will have new resources available in the forms of a physical exhibit at the Chicago Public Library’s Harold Washington Library Center and an online resource that will streamline Chicago-related research queries. These developments are thanks to the Chicago
The DePaul University Library is committed to supporting community engagement as a strategic priority and recently welcomed the opportunity to affect interests and issues that impact young girls and women in Chicago. Beginning winter quarter 2015, the library extended its resources and staff expertise to 16 high school student interns
The Library provides a suite of digital services to faculty to improve their teaching and research (see our previous article on successful partnerships with faculty). In order to improve those services, we reached out to faculty last Fall with a Digital Services survey to identify your priorities and understand what
“Honestly, I was scared to go into the library because I felt like such a freshman. I had no idea of how it worked.” This comment from a DePaul University first-year student resonates with the results of a number of recent studies of information literacy among undergraduate students. Research by Brinkman,
Faculty are often familiar with information literacy and the skills students need in order to effectively identify, evaluate and use information from a variety of sources. Archivists and special collections librarians use a framework for “artifactual literacy” and focus on specialized sources that don’t often come neatly packaged with the same
The DePaul University Library contributes to the strategic goals identified in the university’s Vision 2018 strategic plan in a number of ways, but perhaps one of our “quieter” contributions has been to the goal of “[infusing] international and comparative perspectives throughout the teaching, research and service missions of the university.” In
The library has added 3 lynda.com kiosk stations to the John T. Richardson and Loop Library that are available to current DePaul students, faculty and staff. These kiosk stations provide access to the full catalog of lynda.com tutorials, an online subscription library that teaches the latest software, creative and business