News about library resources and services for DePaul University students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends
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
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
Over the past few months, a Strategic Planning Task Force has led a planning process across the DePaul University Libraries to identify strategic goals aligned with the university’s Vision 2018 (V2018) strategic plan. While the V2018 plan for the library is not yet complete, we are able to share a
Is the book dead? Are Americans reading less than they once did? Has the ubiquity of the Facebook status update and the 140-character tweet doomed our ability to appreciate the long argument? In 2007, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) issued To Read or Not to Read: A Question
The Library continues planning for the second phase of the John T. Richardson Library Renovation (scheduled for Summer 2013) with campus partners, including Faculty Information Technology Services (FITS), the Writing Center, the Digital Humanities Interest Group, the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Information Services, and the Office of
Colleagues – the release of this quarter’s newsletter provides me with the opportunity to introduce myself and to say how much I look forward to working with you and your students in the coming months and years. With the University’s new strategic plan taking shape, I find that I have
Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ (Congregation of St. Joseph), has been an outspoken voice against the death penalty since the early 1980s when she was spiritual advisor to death row inmate Elmo Patrick “Pat” Sonnier. Her advocacy against the death penalty resulted in two books, The Death of Innocents, and Dead