Category: Special Collections and Archives

  If you’re a DePaul student, faculty or staff member, you’re probably familiar with the row of townhouses that line Fullerton and Belden and separate the School of Music from the remainder of the Lincoln Park campus. They are recognizable by their distinct and uniform dark red brick exteriors. Today,

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,

An essay inspired by National Poetry Month by Malik Pitchford, Special Collections and Archives Student Assistant, Political Science and African and Black Diaspora Studies (LAS ‘22). Anthologies are widely used as textbooks and as a central resource for students and teachers alike to gain access to a wide range of

Sister Ardeth Platte, OP, and Sister Carol Gilbert, OP, donated their collection of newspaper clippings, correspondence, and court documents to DePaul University Special Collections and Archives in multiple accessions.  Originally, these materials were integrated into the Collection on Peace Activism.  However, the size of the most recent donation, given in

Black History Month can be traced back to Carter G. Woodson, who founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH; now named the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, or ASALH). Dr. Woodson initiated Negro History Week in 1926, chosen to overlap

Early January is often the time for making healthy resolutions for the New Year, perhaps to atone for gluttony and sedentary leisure over the winter holidays or just to use the first month of the year as a natural starting line for change. In previous years, Special Collections and Archives

Please join the Library in supporting Marillac St. Vincent Family Services with a holiday donation drive. Marillac House in East Garfield Park is seeking new, unwrapped toys to assist families in providing gifts through their Christmas Store. One of the great things about the toy drive is that it gives