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“New snow as far as I can see/ Wipes clear the slate for poetry.” Entitled “Winter’s Blessing,” this couplet is featured in award-winning author Sally A. Kitt Chappell’s newest edition of poetry SHARDS: Selected Poems (2011). In this poem, we are reminded how inclement winter weather provides opportunities for creative
Public intellectual and self-proclaimed gadfly, Jim Block, DePaul University Professor of Political Science, is not bound by disciplinary boundaries. In fact, one of his major contributions to knowledge production is questioning the social production of boundaries entirely. His newest book The Crucible of Consent: American Child Rearing and the Forging
On July 1, 2011 the Libraries began a four-year renovation of the John T. Richardson Library. The first phase was successfully completed in September 2011. Classes are being taught in our new library instruction room and the Library has hosted several events in our state-of-the-art program room, including an inaugural
DePaul University Library offers faculty access to digital-image collections for use in instruction, research and scholarship. In addition to DePaul’s Digital Collections, the Instructional Image Collection launched a new web platform (Luna) during Fall Quarter 2011 with more than 60,000 images generated at DePaul and includes access to 30+ additional
The “Cumulative Index of Nursing & Allied Health Literature,” as it was previously known, has its origins in the 1940s, when two women heroically took on the task of ‘indexing’ every single article appearing in a total of thirteen different nursing journals over a period of five years. In the
Every other year we seek your feedback about library services and resources. Thanks to all of the faculty who took the time to respond to the survey we sent out. The chart below shows results related to the key library goal of enhancing student learning. The biggest increase from the
The Department of Digitization Services is happy to announce Luna, the new web platform for DePaul University Library’s Instructional Image Collection. Luna replaces Mimsy, offering access to over 60,000 images in the DePaul Instructional Image Collection as well as access to more than 30 digital image collections via Luna Commons. Luna
As phase one of the John T. Richardson Library renovation wraps up in September, the noise of the construction will fade, but preparations for the second and third phases will only just be beginning. During the second phase, the Library’s first floor will be transformed into an information commons with
New faculty are tangled in many threads at a new institution. For professors who have not studied or taught in a 10-week quarter system, the pace can seem overwhelming. The DePaul Libraries are well aware of the complications and are here to help. Many faculty are concerned first and foremost
Whether teaching an occasional course at DePaul while working full time in another profession, carrying a full load of nine courses per academic year, or spreading the course load among several Chicago area universities, adjunct faculty face a unique set of challenges in using the libraries at DePaul. In addition