News about library resources and services for DePaul University students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends
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
The DePaul University Library often receives good input from faculty through our Librarian Liaison program. Two of the services we have received the most requests for over the past few years are expanded borrowing privileges at other research libraries in the region, including the University of Chicago and Northwestern, and
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
In Fall Quarter 2012, the DePaul Library joined the OCLC Reciprocal Faculty Borrowing Program, a cooperative borrowing program that facilitates faculty use of research libraries across North America. Through this program full-time DePaul faculty members in good standing can gain borrowing privileges and on-site access to the collections of the
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