News about library resources and services for DePaul University students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends
The Library will be closed December 21 through January 1. We wish you a happy holiday season and New Year! Library users will continue to have access to digital content, including full-text articles, e-books and digital media titles including streaming audio and video. Research assistance will also remain available through
The holiday season is upon us and A Christmas Carol is hard to miss whether it be on TV, put on as a play, or read. Charles Dickens began writing A Christmas Carol, originally titled A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, as a way to
The Loop and John T. Richardson Library will be closed all day Friday December 6 for a staff retreat. We look forward to seeing you again Saturday during regular hours. Library users will continue to have access to digital content, including full-text articles, e-books and digital media titles including streaming
Ode a la Reyne sur la naissance de Monseigneur le Dauphin. Presentée a sa Majesté par Mr. Le Grand. A Paris, Chez Jean Brnet, ruë neusve Sainct Louys, à la Crosse, & au Canon Royal, M. DC. XXXVIII. SpC. 841.4 O23b1638 In a postscript to a letter he wrote on January
Finals are here and it’s time to study all night at the library! The John T. Richardson Library is open overnight starting now until midnight Tuesday November 26. Please remember to bring your DePaul i.d. to stay in the library after 11:00pm. Snacks will be for sale in the hallway
Reading Richard Powers’s The Overstory, I was reminded of George Herbert, the 17th-century metaphysical poet and priest, a “devotional lyricist” known for writing “pattern poems,” in which the lines are so arranged that they become visual, “concrete” representations of the subject of the poem. Powers’s novel offers a grand reworking
Need a break from studying? During Brain Fuel Week (November 11-15), several departments at DePaul will offer events to de-stress, unwind, and stay healthy. The Library will be participating in the following Brain Fuel Week Events: Stress Re-DUCK-tion Lincoln Park and Loop Campus Libraries All Week Find a rubber duckie
DePaul’s connection to the Irish and Irish-American community in Chicago runs deep, from our earliest university presidents to today’s collaborations between the Irish Studies Program and the Irish Consulate in Chicago. One clear example of this connection is the Irish Collection of rare books in the DePaul University Library’s Special
E-Commerce, Ancient Dance, and the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 As the temperature outside begins to drop, library research is heating up! We’ve been getting a wide variety of interesting research questions at the library this month. Some of the topics that our Research Librarians and Peer Research Tutors helped
Traicte des Droicts Honorifiques des Seigneurs és Eglises, Seconde Edition, reveuë, & augmentée de plusieurs notables Arrests, & curieuses remarques. A Mademoiselle de Montpensier. A Paris, Chez Nicolas Buon, ruë S. Jacques, àl’enseigne de S. Claude, & de l’Homme Sauvage. MDXVI Avec Privilege du Roy, & Approbation Mathias Mareschal SpC.