News about library resources and services for DePaul University students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends
Last month, the Pew Research Center released its most recent report on the place of the public library in American society. Libraries at the Crossroads documents a critical moment in the history of an enduring social institution, as public libraries continue to support traditional services such as literacy programs for
Via Sapientiae is DePaul’s Institutional Repository where faculty and students are publishing their scholarly papers, journals, conferences and other works online for the world to see. Much has changed over the five years since the repository launched so administrators of Via Sapientiae decided to meet at their first Via User
Looking for new publishing opportunities? We are pleased to announce that as of May 21st, Cabell’s directories of publishing opportunities launched a new, improved interface. Cabell’s is making it easier to search for most appropriate publications for your research topics and manuscripts. In addition to a much improved look and feel,
What makes a scholarly article scholarly? Who is an authority? Students new to the research process don’t necessarily understand that authority is constructed and contextual, or that the article they found using one of the Library’s EBSCO databases might have originally been published and distributed to an audience of researchers
The DePaul University Library is committed to supporting community engagement as a strategic priority and recently welcomed the opportunity to affect interests and issues that impact young girls and women in Chicago. Beginning winter quarter 2015, the library extended its resources and staff expertise to 16 high school student interns
The Library provides a suite of digital services to faculty to improve their teaching and research (see our previous article on successful partnerships with faculty). In order to improve those services, we reached out to faculty last Fall with a Digital Services survey to identify your priorities and understand what
“Honestly, I was scared to go into the library because I felt like such a freshman. I had no idea of how it worked.” This comment from a DePaul University first-year student resonates with the results of a number of recent studies of information literacy among undergraduate students. Research by Brinkman,
The DePaul University Library contributes to the strategic goals identified in the university’s Vision 2018 strategic plan in a number of ways, but perhaps one of our “quieter” contributions has been to the goal of “[infusing] international and comparative perspectives throughout the teaching, research and service missions of the university.” In
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
Kyle Henke, Digital Archivist, comes to DePaul University from Columbia College where he established an institutional repository and managed the digital collections of the College Archives while integrating material into the classroom and the College community. Kyles role with Special Collections and Archives will be to acquire and preserve content