News about library resources and services for DePaul University students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends
As we near the end of the school year and make plans for fall, it’s a good time to review the opportunities available to campus through the Wikipedian in Residence. Cassandra DellaCorte, based in Special Collections and Archives in the Richardson Library, is available to work with faculty individually or
Archival institutions exist to preserve and make accessible the raw, original sources that document the lives and times of individuals, groups of people, organizations, and regions. Collecting policies may differ but archives try to be as comprehensive as possible for their areas of focus, and to work with other archival
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
DePaul University Special Collections and Archives is happy to participate again this year in the Chicago Area Archivists Chicago Open Archives events. Over thirty archives, research centers, and cultural institutions in the Chicago area are participating, inviting the community to explore local resources through tours, talks, and exhibits. The three-day
When archivists from across the Midwest converge in Milwaukee this week, four of DePaul’s Special Collections and Archives staff will be among the crowd at the Midwest Archives Conference Annual Meeting. Each of DePaul’s staff attending the conference have compelling reasons to be there. First, the Midwest Archives Conference (MAC)
When most of us think of lucky breaks, a stage probably comes more readily to mind than non-descript grey archival boxes in closed stacks in a library. But for DePaul Theatre School student Brennan Jones, the materials found in the Sr. Helen Prejean papers “might have been the luckiest break
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
The Summer 2015 issue of DePaul Magazine features an article on the breadth and depth of the “hidden treasures” in Special Collections and Archives as well as highlights our teaching and learning mission. The article flows from the heading Enhancing the Student Experience and shows the important connections among
In 1982, Sr. Helen Prejean, a member of the Congregation of St. Joseph, began corresponding with a death row inmate, Patrick Sonnier, at Angola (the Louisiana State Penitentiary). She became his spiritual adviser and accompanied him to his execution, later writing a non-fiction account of her experience with Pat Sonnier, and