News about library resources and services for DePaul University students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends
Faculty are often familiar with information literacy and the skills students need in order to effectively identify, evaluate and use information from a variety of sources. Archivists and special collections librarians use a framework for “artifactual literacy” and focus on specialized sources that don’t often come neatly packaged with the same
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Discover Chicago program, and the John T. Richardson Library has mounted an exhibit highlighting the innovative freshman experiential learning program and the ways in which the Library supports the Chicago Quarter courses each year. The exhibit features books from the Library collection
Faculty–The local version of the ITHAKA Faculty Survey is still available for your completion through Wednesday, May15th. Please take this opportunity to contribute to this national study of faculty perspectives in scholarship, publishing, and the role of libraries. Make an impact on the future of scholarship and teaching in an
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
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
Just last year, we were completing final plans with our partners from across the university to begin the John T. Richardson Library renovations that would allow us to open the Information Commons in Fall 2013. One of our shared goals in this project was to create new approaches to traditional
DePaul’s institutional repository, Via Sapientiae, supports student scholarship as faculty across the university begin to see the opportunities for teaching and professional development offered by this library-administered publishing platform. Built on the Digital Commons online publishing platform and administered by the University Library, Via Sapientiae supports the open access publishing needs
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
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
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