News about library resources and services for DePaul University students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends
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
Kyle Henke 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. As Digital Archivist, Kyle’s role with the DePaul University Special Collections and Archives will be to
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
When visiting the DePaul University Library, you’ve likely run across students pushing carts, shelving books and checking out material to patrons. Perhaps you’ve received research assistance from one of our Peer-Research Tutors in person or late at night on our instant messaging service. In Autumn Quarter 2013, we had the pleasure
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
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
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
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