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Each year, I spend countless hours perusing catalogs, websites, and meeting with booksellers to find new unique, rare, and antiquarian materials to add to our rare books collections in DePaul Special Collections and Archives. One of the areas that we are quickly growing and collecting actively in is artists’ books,
In honor of Black History Month, Special Collections and Archives are highlighting Black artists and their creations from our book arts collection. The books and prints range from autobiographical stories to exploring Black history and identity as well as racism and anti-Black racism, police discrimination and brutality, and violence motivated
Donation from Rev. Stafford Poole, C.M. Adds Important Titles about the History of Religion, Mexico, and Our Lady of Guadalupe to SPCA Special Collections and Archives (SPCA) had just finished processing a large donation of books from Rev. Stafford Poole, C.M. to the DePaul University Library when the campus transitioned
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
Last year, Patricia Chavez and Nora Gabor took you on a tour of poetry through our rare book collections. This year we will focus on what you can find in our DePaul University Archives. In 2018, we celebrated National Poetry month by exploring the poetry that can be found in
DePaul Special Collections and Archives (SPCA) will be hosting an open house on October 31st as part of the world-wide celebration of the 200th anniversary of Frankenstein known as Frankenreads. Visitors can compare and interact with different editions of Frankenstein including two illustrated editions and other materials directly related to
Join in a worldwide effort to transcribe a digitized 17th century manuscript by coming to the Scholars Lab, room 103, in the John T. Richardson Library on Thursday, October 25th from 1:00-5:00pm. The Transcribathon is being put on by the Early Modern Poetry Online Project or EMPOP. DePaul University will
In honor of National Poetry Month Patricia Chavez and Nora Gabor will take you on a tour of our collections through poetry. You can find poetry in all corners of Special Collections and Archives, both in the expected literature sections and in more surprising places. In our stacks you can
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, DePaul Special Collections and Archives would like to highlight a recent donation from alumni Kevin and Maureen Smith Cogan of four Irish and English books dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, acquired in Dublin while traveling. The donation includes Cyprianus Anglicus: or the
DePaul Special Collections and Archives is pleased to announce a new exhibit on the first floor of the John T. Richardson Library. The exhibit Cheap Thrills or, Selections from DePaul’s Pulps Collection explores the formats and themes of two different types of early popular fiction. Dime novels were self-contained pieces