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Scripts and Performances: Uncharted Medieval Music Manuscripts

By Paul Feller-Simmons ’25 PhD This blog post is adapted from the exhibition Scripts and Performances: Uncharted Medieval Manuscripts at Northwestern University, on view...
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“The Enterprizing Lunardi’s Grand Air Balloon”

A new acquisition by the Transportation Library documents the first successful balloon flight in England. The 1784 broadside features an illustration of Vincent Lunardi’s...
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What a Trip! The Deacidification of a Far Out Collection

By Julie Calcagno What do sci-fi pulp, countercultural newspapers, and 1960s books on marijuana have in common? They’re enjoyable reads, food for thought and...
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Librarians and faculty partner on digital scholarship  

As Northwestern’s data analysis librarian, Sarah Thorngate knows that her title may not generate an instant understanding of what she does.   “Data analysis, that’s...
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Street Safety for Children: New Acquisition Highlights

Before widespread automobility, the street had been a shared public space – for pedestrians, bicycles, streetcars, horse-drawn vehicles – even a space for children’s...
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Award-winning librarian gets all the love for his community focus

Sure, librarian Ted Quiballo was pleased to find out he had been named one of 10 winners of an annual recognition from the American...
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Digital exhibit recreates the ‘sound world’ of Beethoven’s bassist using library collections

By Elena Hubert ’25 With a name like “Domenico Dragonetti,” you would figure the world’s first virtuoso bassist would be as well-known as Ludwig...
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A Visual Feast : Bob Peak’s TWA Menus

  The Transportation Library is proud to debut a new exhibit: A Visual Feast: Bob Peak’s TWA Menus, now on display in our fifth...
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The race to define what’s next for AI in libraries 

Imagine an undergraduate trying to brainstorm a fruitful theme for a term paper. One midnight, she is struck by inspiration, and opens the Libraries’...
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