News about library resources and services for DePaul University students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends
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
Rev. Edward Udovic, C.M., DePaul University’s Vice President of Teaching & Learning Resources, Senior Executive for University Mission, and Associate Professor of History, won the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Primary Source Award for Teaching this year for his Chicago Quarter class, The Lincoln Park Neighborhood: Then and Now. CRL is
DePaul University Library has been selected as one of 75 institutions to participate in the first year of the “Assessment in Action: Academic Libraries and Student Success” (AiA). As the project leader for DePaul University, Heather Jagman, Coordinator of Library Instruction, will lead DePaul’s team in the development and implementation
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
According to a recent blurb on Glamourmagazine’s website, recent research suggests that gum chewing just might reduce your stress levels. How hard is it to locate the original research study? Who wrote it? Where was it published? Can anyone access the research study for free, or is it only available
The DePaul University Library is working with the Office for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment in its project to align existing program learning outcomes for both academic and co-curricular programs with the university’s new learning goals, which include information literacy. Information literacy looks different in different disciplines, but the newly adopted
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
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
DePaul University Library offers faculty access to digital-image collections for use in instruction, research and scholarship. In addition to DePaul’s Digital Collections, the Instructional Image Collection launched a new web platform (Luna) during Fall Quarter 2011 with more than 60,000 images generated at DePaul and includes access to 30+ additional
Every other year we seek your feedback about library services and resources. Thanks to all of the faculty who took the time to respond to the survey we sent out. The chart below shows results related to the key library goal of enhancing student learning. The biggest increase from the