News about library resources and services for DePaul University students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends
The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced that it will fund “Reading Chicago Reading: Modeling Texts and Readers in a Public Library System” as part of its Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program. This $74,271 grant will allow faculty from DePaul’s College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences and College
On Tuesday, March 29 the opening reception for “Building Bridges of Faith,” an exhibition of photographs documenting papal visits to Israel between 1964–2014 co-sponsored by DePaul University and the Consul General of Israel to the Midwest, will be held on the second floor of the John T. Richardson Library between
This week, the DePaul University Library and the DePaul Student Government Association (SGA) invite you to join colleagues from around the world in celebrating Open Education Week (March 7 – 11, 2016). “Open education” refers to the free and open sharing of educational resources, tools, and practices among student and
This week, the DePaul University Library invites you to join colleagues across the United States and Canada in celebrating Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week (February 22 – 26, 2016). “Fair use,” according to the U.S. Copyright Office, “is a legal doctrine that promotes freedom of expression by permitting the unlicensed use
Nora Epstein, a part-time librarian in the DePaul’s Special Collections and Archives, was recently profiled in Fine Books & Collections as part of its “Bright Young Librarians” series. In her profile, Epstein describes her introduction to special collections librarianship at a number of Chicago institutions, including Northwestern University and the
The DePaul University Library is pleased to support a DePaul Humanities Center collaboration with Theatre Y on their new production of the Glen Berger play, Underneath the Lintel: An Impressive Presentation of Lonely Evidences. Underneath the Lintel tells the story of a Dutch librarian on an obsessive quest to find the identity of a man who returned a library book now 113 years
Heather Jagman, Coordinator of Reference, Instruction, and Academic Engagement for the DePaul University Library, has been named the winner (along with her co-editor, Troy Swanson of the Moraine Valley Community College Library) of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Instruction Section’s Ilene F. Rockman Publication of the Year
A team of DePaul University faculty and librarians has been invited to participate in an upcoming “Information Fluency in the Disciplines” workshop being sponsored this Spring by the Council of Independent Colleges. Sponsored, in part, by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Information Fluency in the Disciplines workshops provide support
Between January 15 – 23, 2016, librarians around the world will recognize the 15th anniversary of the launch of Wikipedia by contributing to the #1Lib1Ref campaign – a call for “every librarian in the world to add one reference to a Wikipedia article.” With over 35 million articles in 280
From new research on teaching and learning, to collaboration with campus partners, to the launch of our government information services program and the Explore Chicago Collections digital portal, 2015 was another exciting year for the DePaul University Library! Here’s a chance to revisit our top stories of the year as