News about library resources and services for DePaul University students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends
The DePaul University Library locations currently housed on the Suburban Campuses will close permanently at the end of their regularly-scheduled service hours on June 13, 2014. Faculty and students will continue to have access to library resources and services through services such as Ask-a-Librarian, online research guides and tutorials, and
The DePaul University Library will be migrating our Web site to the SharePoint platform this summer, with an expected launch in August after the end of the summer session. Most major library systems will continue to operate unchanged as will the structure of our site during this migration, so if
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
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
The DePaul University Library will be migrating our website to SharePoint this summer, with an expected August 25th launch, between the end of the Summer Session and the beginning of Fall Quarter. While this project will require some updates to your bookmarks and links in course materials, many things will
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
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
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
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
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