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Chicago’s ethnically diverse neighborhoods are among the many characteristics that make the city so well-known. However, the current demographics of Chicago neighborhoods are often considered to be a consequence of decades of gentrification. While the city has a history of racial tension, businesses and politicians have undertaken many community development
From a quiet place of research to a film set, the Special Collections Reading Room was transformed earlier this summer. To honor the 50th Anniversary of the La Leche League’s foundation in New Zealand, Lisa Manning, LLLNZ Board Member and Administer of Publications, made a special trip to Chicago to
Included among the 31 ways that the Stolen Sharpie Revolution‘s website names for celebrating International Zine month is visiting a zine library. Did you know that you can do this right here at the DePaul University Library? Special Collections and Archives currently serves as the repository for fifteen different collections
Last week, the Getty Research Institute added more than 77,000 high-resolution images to its Open Content Program. The Open Content Program was begun by the Getty to provide to the public all digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain. The high-resolution
Have you ever strolled through a neighborhood past rows of stately greystones only to come across an incongruous structure or parking lot and wondered what might have been there before? Using a combination of historic images and advertisements taken from postcards, photographs, and publications held in the Special Collections and
In celebration of National Poetry Month, DePaul University’s John T. Richardson Library and the Department of English present a showcase of DePaul undergraduate poets Isabelle Johnson, Alison Ogunmokun, M. Quinn Stifler, and China Thomas. The DePaul University Library is proud to host our sixth student poetry reading so please come
Interested in learning how to become more financially fit? DePaul University Librarians are committed to help students access reliable sources of information that will help them make informed decisions about money matters. To that end, during Money Smart Week at DePaul, April 7-10, DPU Librarians encourage you to meet with
A number of you have attended the undergraduate poetry readings held at the John T. Richardson Library during National Poetry Month (April) each year. This year the DePaul English Department and the John T. Richardson Library are adding fiction and nonfiction readings to the schedule, allowing us to have the
Imagine dressing like a man in the mid-19th century in order to find sustainable employment only to be drafted into the Union Army during the American Civil War. Or imagine that after a lifetime of avoiding publication for the sake of female decency that it would be the political insights
Special Collections and Archives recently posted updated Finding Aids for the Berrigan-McAlister Collection and the Jerome C. Berrigan Papers, and a new finding aid for the Daniel Berrigan Papers on our website. December 2013 marked the end of a fourteen month reprocessing project for these collections. The prominence of Catholic