News about library resources and services for DePaul University students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends
If you’ve visited the John T. Richardson Library this summer you probably noticed construction workers in the building and perhaps even heard a bit of occasional noise as they went about their work. The initial phase of the Library’s previously announced renovation is reaching its completion as summer winds down
Dear Colleagues, At its meeting yesterday, the Board of Trustees approved the first phase of a four year, ten million dollar renovation of the John T. Richardson Library. The first phase of the renovation is scheduled to begin this summer, with subsequent phases taking place each summer through the summer
The last ten years of expansion in the instructional and curricular uses of the primary source materials held in the DePaul University Special Collections and Archives has far outpaced the existing spaces designed in 1988. The plans for the renovation of Richardson include exciting changes for how we work with
DePaul’s Library has never offered a richer collection of resources, nor have our resources ever been easier to access. In response to our patrons’ needs and in support of DePaul’s curriculum, we have built extensive digital collections. Databases and e-journals are our most highly used resources; e-books are becoming more
Linda Morrissett, Director of Libraries, will be retiring after fourteen years at DePaul. Linda came to DePaul in 1997 as the Associate Director for Library Collections and Access Services. For the past nine years Linda has served as the Library Director, a period of time that spans two strategic planning
JSTOR & Project MUSE, two of our most heavily used collections, have both announced that they will be adding e-books from university presses to their platforms for 2012. As two of the leading not-for-profit organizations providing full-text scholarly journal content, their support of university presses heralds an exciting development for
On April 29, 2011, at the seventh annual student history conference, over 40 graduate and undergraduate students had the opportunity to present their research papers to peers and faculty as part of an all day conference. This was both an exciting and nerve-racking experience for students as they learned from
One of the key challenges the DePaul Library faces is re-configuring our traditional library spaces to better serve student and faculty research needs in the face of changing technologies, modalities of information delivery and learning styles. The DePaul Library’s Commons will be a shared social space where diverse groups of
The DPU Libraries is excited about our planned migration of the website this year to SharePoint. We anticipate not only improved workflows for our librarians in terms of keeping our website relevant, but also in delivering improved services to our users. To keep the DPU community up to speed with
“I found it in EBSCO!” EBSCO provides us with access to nearly 50 separate specialty databases–you may already be on a first name basis with Academic Search Premier, but EBSCO also provides access to more specific tools, like EconLit, Environment Complete, PsycInfo and the Military and Government Collection, among others.