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While 2015 saw us help to launch Chicago Collections and 2017 brings us the promise of another library renovation, no-one at the DePaul University Library lacked for opportunities to contribute to teaching, learning, and research at the university during 2016. Here’s a chance to revisit our top stories of the year as
For the past few years, Special Collections and Archives has selected images from our collections to be used on Christmas cards sent by the University Library to friends, donors, faculty, and community members. This year’s card features St. Vincent de Paul in a winter scene with orphans and angels overhead in
On November 16th, the DePaul University Library hosted the inaugural open house for Studio Chi, a new center for faculty development at DePaul that “will foster and support research at the interface between humanities and computing.” Building on the teaching, learning, and research collaborations that have been explored in the John
Women’s organizations used charity cookbooks as fundraising resources beginning in the Civil War era. By the turn of the twentieth century, suffragettes increasingly used this format to reinforce their connection to traditional American values while promoting their political cause. The Washington Women’s Cook Book is an example of the variety
While individual physicians and moralists published recipe guides that supported their diet and health theories, women’s groups began authoring cookbooks sold as fundraising efforts in the nineteenth century. These community or charity cookbooks gathered recipes from a region or sponsoring organization to raise funds for local causes. American charity cookbooks
Herman Koch is a Dutch author and actor who has written both short stories and novels. His latest, Dear Mr. M, is one of our recent acquisitions for the Unwind the Mind: Popular Reading Collection – a collection of popular fiction and non-fiction best-sellers available at both the Lincoln Park and
Good luck with finals!!! The library hours at the John T. Richardson Library have been extended: November 13-22 (final exams) Open 24 hours November 13 – November 18 at 11:00pm November 19 10:00am – 11:00pm Open 24 hours November 20 10:00am – November 22 Midnight
Tuesday’s Special Collections Cooking entry introduced specialized diets that healthcare advocates developed in late nineteenth century America. John Harvey Kellogg promoted low-spice, low-acidity diets that focused on fermentation and yogurts to aid digestion. His advice in his 1893 Ladies’ Guide in Health and Disease stressed moderation in diet and modesty
November 7-11 is National Distance Learning Week. In celebration of our online and distance learners, we thought we would share some information about how the library supports this growing body of students. DePaul University Library has been supporting our online and distance learners for almost ten years. In addition, the
The Special Collections Cooking Series uses recipes and resources from DePaul’s Special Collections and Archives to engage with issues of economics, class, gender, and social changes through American food. In our first week, we cooked Maria Eliza Rundell’s 1823 gooseberry fool recipe and investigated what the increasing mix of cheap