News about library resources and services for DePaul University students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends
Welcome back to This Week in Reference! The library has been warming up all week with students studying for midterms and beginning research for final papers and projects! We’ve been helping students find books, articles, navigate I-Share, find course reserves, and much much more. Some of the topics we’ve encountered this week: Christopher Marlowe
Though it’s cold outside, it’s warm in the Learning Commons, where peer tutors are available to help you with a variety of academic subjects this winter quarter. Whether you’re studying atomic structure, kinetics, or organic reactions, The Science and Math Learning Center and Supplemental Instruction can help out with
A team of DePaul University faculty and librarians has been invited to participate in an upcoming “Information Fluency in the Disciplines” workshop being sponsored this Spring by the Council of Independent Colleges. Sponsored, in part, by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Information Fluency in the Disciplines workshops provide support
Journal de Monsieur le Cardinal Duc de Richelieu, Qu’il a Fait Durant le Grand Orage de la Cour, és Années 1630, & 1631, by Armand-Jean du Plessis, Cardinal-Duke of Richelieu. Paris, 1652. Call Number: SpC. 944.032 R528j1652 View a digitized copy of this book here. After his assassination, Henry
At first glance, this month’s selection of books from the DePaul Library collection don’t appear to be thematically related: two are about cities, and the third explores a little-known history of gun ownership in the United States. On closer reading, the common thread in all three books are the contributions of African
The DePaul Humanities Center continues its Making the Novel Novel series this Wednesday, January 20 with a discussion of Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial 1955 novel. Just what is the controversy? The book’s narrator, Humbert Humbert, is a literature professor in his late thirties who has a sexual obsession with his
Between January 15 – 23, 2016, librarians around the world will recognize the 15th anniversary of the launch of Wikipedia by contributing to the #1Lib1Ref campaign – a call for “every librarian in the world to add one reference to a Wikipedia article.” With over 35 million articles in 280
On January 16, 2016, ProQuest will be upgrading its systems infrastructure to improve performance, security, and overall reliability. The window is scheduled to begin at 9:00 PM Central Standard Time and will last for 8 hours. During this time, access to the ProQuest products listed below will not be available,
Rick Cluchey, playwright, actor, and friend of Samuel Beckett, died December 28, 2015, near his home in Culver City, California. Cluchey’s legacy could have been more limited, like “Rick Cluchey, convicted felon,” were it not for Samuel Beckett’s indirect intervention in the form of a 1957 performance of Waiting for
Special Collections and Archives collaborates with faculty in providing instruction for a variety of disciplines and course levels. In the 2014-2015 school year, we hosted 67 instruction sessions with nearly 1,000 students, including courses from Anthropology, Catholic Studies, College of Computing and Digital Media, English, History, Latin American and Latino