News about library resources and services for DePaul University students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends
The DePaul Humanities Center presents the second event in its 2016-2017 “Transformations” series on Thursday February 16, when it welcomes Royal Ballet Principal Edward Watson to discuss art and transformation in the context of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. The evening begins with a screening of Watson dancing the title role
If movie awards season has your attention, grab some popcorn and one of these new additions to the DePaul University Library collection. You don’t even have to dress up. In Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page, DePaul faculty author Blair Davis (Assistant Professor of Media and Cinema Studies) examines
The DePaul Humanities Center launches its 2016-17 series “The Humanities in Spaaaace!” on Monday, October 17 with an exploration of our neighbor Mars. The DHC’s “yearlong investigation into the relations among the humanities, arts, and space-sciences” will bring together experts from such varying fields as music, geography, political science, environmental
From Saturday, August 20 at 10:00 p.m. through Sunday, August 21 at 6:00 a.m., ProQuest will be undergoing maintenance. The following products will be temporarily unavailable: Research databases • ProQuest platform (search.proquest.com) • ProQuest Congressional (congressional.proquest.com) • ProQuest Dialog (dialog.proquest.com) • Chadwyck-Healey US databases • CultureGrams • eLibrary (all editions)
The ProQuest platform (search.proquest.com) will be taking a two-hour maintenance window on Saturday, July 9th from 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM Central Time. During this time access to ProQuest platform databases will not be available and users will be re-directed to a webpage explaining the scheduled maintenance. For questions or
The DePaul Humanities Center continues its Making the Novel Novel series on Monday, April 11 with a celebration of Moby-Dick, Herman Melville’s 1851 epic tale of Captain Ahab’s obsessive quest for the great white whale who devoured his leg on an earlier voyage. The evening will begin with a screening of
As part of the overall modernization and consolidation of ProQuest ebook platforms, the ProQuest EBL and Ebook Central platforms will be unavailable on Thursday April 7, 2016 from 4:00 pm up to 6:00 pm for scheduled maintenance. If you have any questions, please contact a DePaul University librarian.
Textbook prices got you down? DePaul University’s Student Government Association and the John T. Richardson Library are excited to announce the first ever Textbook Exchange. We will be starting this initiative in Lincoln Park with the hope that it will grow in future years to serve all schools across the
Spring may not have officially sprung yet, but the weather has warmed (at least temporarily) and the birds are singing a little louder. As the earth begins to thaw, let’s look at three new books in the DePaul University Library collection about our relationship to the great outdoors. A.A. Milne’s
