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DePaul Librarians Jessica Alverson and Jennifer Schwartz’ s new article in College and Research Libraries News describes how DePaul’s research and instruction librarians engage with faculty and colleagues to improve student learning In the fall of 2014, our team of instruction librarians began the long process of revising our teaching
Anna Kendrick is best known as an actress and singer, star of Pitch Perfect and Pitch Perfect 2. She also appeared in Up In The Air, a performance for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Late last year, Ms. Kendrick also published her memoir, Scrappy
Best known as a musician and the lead guitarist and songwriter for “The Band,” Robbie Robertson has just published Testimony, his new memoir. In Testimony, you’ll find a treasure-trove of memories and headline news from Robertson, detailing his childhood in Canada, growing up on the Six Nations Indian Reserve and in
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
What is Sage Research Methods (SRM)? SRM, one of the newest resources available at DePaul, is a database of information and instructional materials in research methods for health and social sciences. It contains over 120,000 pages of text from books, journals, and reference sources detailing quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research
One of the most fascinating new books about brain science and how our minds work is this recent addition to our Unwind the Mind collection: The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J. Levitin. Levitin is James McGill Professor of psychology and behavioral neuroscience at McGill
This month’s featured author from our Unwind the Mind: Popular Reading Collection is Bill Bryson, author most recently of The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain. Bryson is known for humorous travel accounts like The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America and A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on
This month’s featured author from our Unwind the Mind: Popular Reading Collection is David McCullough, author most recently of The Wright Brothers. McCullough is a prolific author, lecturer, and historian. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his book John Adams and also for Truman, both of which were adapted for TV by HBO. He
Winter storm warning? 60 mile per hour winds? That won’t keep us away from research! This past week, the library was crowded with students and faculty working hard and asking fascinating questions. Some topics making their way to our desk and inboxes this week: Japanese food culture Karel Husa Merit
This month’s featured writer is Lucia Berlin. Her collection of short stories, A Manual For Cleaning Women, made several “Best of 2015” lists, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Publisher’s Weekly. This posthumously published volume (Berlin herself passed away in 2004) highlights some of her most intriguing and vibrant