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
The DePaul University Library will be migrating our website to SharePoint this summer, with an expected August 25th launch, between the end of the Summer Session and the beginning of Fall Quarter. While this project will require some updates to your bookmarks and links in course materials, many things will
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
Faculty hoping to incorporate digital humanities tools and methods into their teaching and research may find recent use of the Library’s new Scholar’s Lab for a senior English capstone course of interest. Winner of the 2013 Thomas and Carol Dammrich Faculty Innovation Award and entitled Literature in the Age of Intelligent Machines, this
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
Although students had been gathering at and using it since the beginning of the quarter, the John T. Richardson Library’s Information Commons celebrated its grand opening on September 24, 2013. Over 300 visitors, including Provost Don Pope-Davis, were treated to tours of the new facility, Banned Books Week button-making, and
This powerful resource contains over 125,000 titles, allowing users to view and search digital facsimiles of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. It includes the first book printed in English by William Caxton; early quarto