News about library resources and services for DePaul University students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends
One of the DePaul Library’s missions is to build collections in support of DePaul’s curriculum. Specifically, we are focused on helping DePaul achieve its Vision 2012 goal of enriching academic quality and “creating nationally recognized, rigorous programs of study.” To this end we are building collections that speak to the
DePaul’s institutional repository, Via Sapientiae, saw astonishing growth this quarter. During the three months starting in August, Via had a whopping 80,000 document downloads. The most downloaded document, Integrating Ethics Across Disciplines: The McDonald’s Case and Poverty Alleviation, authored by Dr. Laura Hartman, Dr. Regina Wolfe and Dr. Patricia Werhane,
DePaul University Libraries’ Special Collections & Archives recently partnered with the Center for Latino Research (CLR) in the acquisition of two collections that are instrumental to telling the Puerto Rican experience. Both collections include valuable materials and interviews that were donated to CLR and have been deposited into Special Collections
Credo Reference is a full-text online collection of reference books including dictionaries, encyclopedias, quotation books and biographies. DePaul’s subscription to Credo Reference has been recently upgraded from 100 e-reference books to approximately 500 titles in an effort to increase online access to basic reference information. To find Credo Reference, search
Megan Bernal is the Library’s Associate Director for Library Information and Discovery Systems, an area of responsibility covering the Library’s many information systems such as the catalog and integrated library management system Voyager, the institutional repository Via powered by Bepress, and digital library platform ContentDM. She also strategizes innovative ways
Knowing what library users need and want, how they work, and how they expect the libraries to work is key to keeping resources and services current. Getting your feedback empowers us to make positive change, with initiatives such as: • Library renovation planning • Recreational reading collection • Graphic novel
Selected Works® allows faculty to create and manage their own publication pages, so more peers can find and cite your work. Online access to Selected Works® benefits faculty and school/departments who wish to showcase their research to a wider audience. Laura Hartman, Professor of Management in the College of Commerce,
Faculty going up for tenure and promotion need compelling evidence of the importance of journals in which they publish. The Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports® analyze citation data for objective critical evaluation of the research influence and impact of journals and categories of journals. This powerful tool carries a proportionate
The Library is working with Aaron Cohen Associates (ACA) to plan a redesign and reconfiguration of the John T. Richardson Library to better meet the needs of today’s students and faculty. Richardson Library opened nearly 20 years ago as a traditional, visually distinctive academic library with ample space for quiet
Dear Colleagues, I am happy to introduce this new quarterly library newsletter for Faculty. The DePaul University Library has made great advances over the last several years in enhancing our support of faculty and students as we together engage in the university’s academic enterprise. Our mission has, of course, been transformed