News about library resources and services for DePaul University students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends
The DePaul University Library often receives good input from faculty through our Librarian Liaison program. Two of the services we have received the most requests for over the past few years are expanded borrowing privileges at other research libraries in the region, including the University of Chicago and Northwestern, and
In the coming months, the Library will be moving to a new system for managing course reserves called Ares. Ares allows us to automate and simplify the reserves process, making it faster and easier for you to put resources of any type on reserve for students to use as well
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
In Fall Quarter 2012, the DePaul Library joined the OCLC Reciprocal Faculty Borrowing Program, a cooperative borrowing program that facilitates faculty use of research libraries across North America. Through this program full-time DePaul faculty members in good standing can gain borrowing privileges and on-site access to the collections of the
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
Founded in 1949, the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a cooperative of research libraries dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to primary sources from around the world. CRLs highly-regarded collections include approximately 5 million newspapers, journals, documents, archives, and other traditional and digital resources. Most of these resources
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
We are pleased to announce exciting new electronic resources that we hope you will find useful in your teaching and research. Please let us know if you have questions about any of this new content or would like a demonstration for your faculty meeting or class. Paley Center’s iCollection [discontinued
Looking for images of the ruins of Chichn Itz? Post-modern architecture in Berlin? The Gardens at the Palace of Versailles? The DePaul University Library is pleased to present a new digital-image collection for faculty use. Over the summer quarter, the Department of Digitization Services subscribed to Archivision Digital Research Library,
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