News about library resources and services for DePaul University students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends
Founded in 1949, the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a cooperative of research libraries dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to primary sources from around the world. CRLs highly-regarded collections include approximately 5 million newspapers, journals, documents, archives, and other traditional and digital resources. Most of these resources
Stop by our newest exhibit on the first floor of the John T. Richardson Library, The Way of Wisdom: Building DePaul University Libraries opening February 8, 2013. September 2012, marked the twentieth anniversary of DePaul University’s John T. Richardson Library. Opened in 1992, the Richardson Library was built to address
The Library continues planning for the second phase of the John T. Richardson Library Renovation (scheduled for Summer 2013) with campus partners, including Faculty Information Technology Services (FITS), the Writing Center, the Digital Humanities Interest Group, the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Information Services, and the Office of
We are pleased to announce exciting new electronic resources that we hope you will find useful in your teaching and research. Please let us know if you have questions about any of this new content or would like a demonstration for your faculty meeting or class. Paley Center’s iCollection [discontinued
Looking for images of the ruins of Chichn Itz? Post-modern architecture in Berlin? The Gardens at the Palace of Versailles? The DePaul University Library is pleased to present a new digital-image collection for faculty use. Over the summer quarter, the Department of Digitization Services subscribed to Archivision Digital Research Library,
While the events surrounding the feats and follies of Napoleon Bonaparte’s rise to power and remarkable military campaigns are some 200 years in the past, their history continues to live on through continued donations to DePaul’s Special Collections and Archives. A recent transfer of rare book materials from Christian Brothers
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
“New snow as far as I can see/ Wipes clear the slate for poetry.” Entitled “Winter’s Blessing,” this couplet is featured in award-winning author Sally A. Kitt Chappell’s newest edition of poetry SHARDS: Selected Poems (2011). In this poem, we are reminded how inclement winter weather provides opportunities for creative
In the library, we are continually working to expand and adapt our collection to better support student and faculty research. To this end, we recently added the following new resources to our collection: Irish Newspaper Archives Irish Newspaper Archives is a digital archive project dedicated to the complete digitization of
Public intellectual and self-proclaimed gadfly, Jim Block, DePaul University Professor of Political Science, is not bound by disciplinary boundaries. In fact, one of his major contributions to knowledge production is questioning the social production of boundaries entirely. His newest book The Crucible of Consent: American Child Rearing and the Forging