News about library resources and services for DePaul University students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends
E-Commerce, Ancient Dance, and the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 As the temperature outside begins to drop, library research is heating up! We’ve been getting a wide variety of interesting research questions at the library this month. Some of the topics that our Research Librarians and Peer Research Tutors helped
Why does the library’s website look so different? DePaul’s Digital Experience and Analysis department has spent the year upgrading the university’s websites to a more current version of Sharepoint–the content management system we use. The most obvious change is that the color scheme has been updated. We’ve also simplified the
Celebrate Banned Books Week at the DePaul University Library September 22–28th, 2019. Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read, bringing together the entire book community — librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types — in shared support of the freedom to seek
On May 3rd, DePaul University Library staff Ana Lucic, Digital Scholarship Librarian, and Christopher Parker, Science Librarian, will hold an EndNote workshop. Interested graduate students are invited to attend. EndNote is the electronic reference manager available to all students, staff, and faculty at DePaul. EndNote is a product of Clarivate Analytics, formerly
Each year, we look back on some of the most important projects we’ve pursued at the DePaul University Library, and some of the most significant contributions we’ve made to the strategic goals of the university and the day-to-day concerns of our community. As we look back on the completion of
Project Information Literacy has released a new report exploring “how U.S. college-age students are accessing, consuming, and engaging with news in the digital age” based on a landmark, mixed-methods study of almost 6,000 students drawn from 6 high schools and 11 colleges and universities across the country, including DePaul. The
In 2016, the DePaul University Library recruited its first “Wikipedian-in-Residence” (WiR), Cassandra DellaCorte, to promote the presence of our special collections on one of the most-visited sites on the World Wide Web, to improve and enhance the content of Wikipedia articles with a connection to DePaul collections and academic programs,
School Library Journal has included the DePaul University Library in its discussion of Chicago Collections and engagement by member libraries, museums, and archives, with K-12 students and teachers in Chicago. In addition to working with Chicago Collections colleagues on programs designed to promote student use of primary source materials for
The John T. Richardson Library will close early on Friday, 5/25, at 6:00pm due to FEST. Regular hours will resume for Saturday, 5/26 and Sunday, 5/27. On Memorial Day, Monday, 5/28, the John T. Richardson Library will be open with reduced hours from 12:00-6:00pm. The Loop Library will be closed
Earlier this year, the DePaul University Library and the Student Government Association co-sponsored a panel on “open textbooks” as part of our celebration of Open Education Week and as part of our ongoing collaboration with faculty to promote the use of open educational resources (OERs) at DePaul. All participants at