Category: Scholarship & Publication

Faculty Use New Digital Image Collections for Class Presentations and Research

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

Presenting Luna: DePaul’s Instructional Images Collection

The Department of Digitization Services is happy to announce Luna, the new web platform for DePaul University Library’s Instructional Image Collection.  Luna replaces Mimsy, offering access to over 60,000 images in the DePaul Instructional Image Collection as well as access to more than 30 digital image collections via Luna Commons.  Luna

Linda Morrissett, Director of Library to Retire

Linda Morrissett, Director of Libraries, will be retiring after fourteen years at DePaul.  Linda came to DePaul in 1997 as the Associate Director for Library Collections and Access Services.  For the past nine years Linda has served as the Library Director, a period of time that spans two strategic planning

Library Celebrates Faculty Scholarship: Carson Cunningham

Former Academic All-American basketball player at Purdue, Dr. Carson Cunningham has been teaching history at DePaul since 2004. Having earned his PhD from Purdue University in 2006, Cunningham authored American Hoops: U.S. Men’s Olympic Basketball from Berlin to Beijing, which the University of Nebraska Press published in December 2009. University

Copyright and Online Learning Training for Faculty

Faculty members are invited to attend a training about copyright law in higher education and how to stay in compliance when posting copyrighted material online. The session will take place on Wednesday, May 11, from 2:003:30 pm in LPC Student Center, Room 380, and will include: An overview of copyright

New Electronic Submissions Process Highlights Student Scholarship

On April 29, 2011, at the seventh annual student history conference, over 40 graduate and undergraduate students had the opportunity to present their research papers to peers and faculty as part of an all day conference. This was both an exciting and nerve-racking experience for students as they learned from

Celebrating Faculty Scholarship: DePaul Professor James H. Murphy Publishes 11th Book

On February 17, James H. Murphy, a professor in the Department of English, will read from his newest book, Irish Novelists and the Victorian Age (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). The reading and reception, will take place at the John T. Richardson Library, Room 300, from 5:30-6:30 PM.Professor Murphy has

Celebrating Faculty Scholarship: DePaul Professor James H. Murphy Publishes 11th Book

On February 17, James H. Murphy, a professor in the Department of English, will read from his newest book, Irish Novelists and the Victorian Age (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). The reading and reception, will take place at the John T. Richardson Library, Room 300, from 5:30-6:30 PM.Professor Murphy has

Faculty Publications 80,000 Downloads and Counting

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,

New in the Library’s Administration

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