News about library resources and services for DePaul University students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends
Following feedback from students, Facility Operations has completed the first phase of a two-phase operation to improve access to power for Loop Library users bringing their own devices into the library. Additional access to outlets has been provided to 64 study carrels in the Loop Library and an upcoming project
With support from the Office of the Provost, the John T. Richardson Library will be open extended hours for midterms, beginning Tuesday, October 3. Please remember that, as is the case during extended hours during finals, access to the library is limited after 11:00 pm to those with a valid,
The DePaul University Library will be closed on Wednesday, August 23rd, for a staff retreat. Library users will continue to have access to digital content, including full-text articles in over 60,000 electronic journals, 275,000 full-text e-books and 115,000 digital media titles including streaming audio and video. Research assistance will also
Beginning Fall Quarter 2017, the DePaul University Library will reduce its service hours at both the John T. Richardson Library (Lincoln Park Campus) and the Loop Library (Loop Campus). The regular schedule at the John T. Richardson Library will be: Monday through Thursday 7:30 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. Friday 7:30 a.m.
The Reading Chicago Reading project has been awarded an Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) Program grant by the HathiTrust Research Center. The ACS Program supports a small number of research projects each year that promote “collaboration between external scholars and HTRC staff to solve challenging problems related to computational analysis.” Support
On July 12, 2017, the DePaul University Library will join the American Library Association, the American Civil Liberties Union, and leading members of the internet and technology communities to defend regulations under review by the Federal Communications Commission that protect “net neutrality.” “Net neutrality” is the umbrella term for the
Kristin Lansdown, Student Circulation Supervisor in the DePaul University Library’s Access Services Department, has been named a Spectrum Scholar for 2017-18 by the American Library Association. Established in 1997, the Spectrum Scholarship Program was created to promote diversity among graduate-level library school students and provides each awardee with a $5,000
The Chronicle of Higher Education has published a new story on the ways academic libraries are changing to better support student success and to make greater contributions to the strategic goals of the university, and we are proud to see the DePaul University Library take center stage. In “What the
On June 2, students participating in this year’s DePaul University Library EDGE team presented posters documenting their major projects throughout the year, and what they had learned about the library, its role on campus, and the information skills that will be helpful to them (and to their classmates) throughout their
Heather Jagman’s study of information literacy instruction in first-year courses at DePaul University (co-authored with former DePaul librarian Paula Dempsey, now at the University of Illinois Chicago) has been selected as one of the “Top 20 Articles for 2016″ by the American Library Association’s Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT). In