Collaborative Effort: Conservation Contributions to a Museum Exhibit
Posted November 12, 2024
This fall, Northwestern University Libraries loaned 63 items to The Block Museum of Art to appear in the exhibition Dissident Sisters: Bev Grant and...Blog
Garry Marshall exhibit puts the NU in ‘Nanu Nanu’
Posted November 8, 2024
By Georgia Kerrigan, ’27 Step into University Libraries between now the end of the quarter and you’ll find yourself immersed in decades of entertainment...
Concrete Plans: Reports and Planning Studies from the Projects of Robert Moses
Posted October 28, 2024
The Northwestern University Transportation Library is proud to debut a new exhibit: Concrete Plans: Reports and Planning Studies from the Projects of Robert Moses,...
Devoted donor and alumna Leslie Cameron Devereaux wanted Libraries to be “an extraordinary experience” for students
Posted October 4, 2024
As a lifelong supporter of Northwestern Athletics and Northwestern Libraries, Leslie Cameron Devereaux found the perfect opportunity to combine her interests in 2015, when...
What to know about your libraries
Posted September 17, 2024
Oh, how I’ve missed the tip tap of keyboards in the Information Commons and the sounds of silence emanating from Periodicals. Welcome to the...
A macabre collection worthy of Beetlejuice
Posted September 6, 2024
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano Horror writer Michael McDowell was fascinated by death and the different practices and beliefs around it. As befitting the...
Many Hands Make Light Work: Treating and Housing Over 1,000 Siege and Commune of Paris Posters
Posted August 27, 2024
By Jess Ortegon Over the years, Northwestern conservation staff have worked on a few sections of the Siege and Commune of Paris (ca. 1870-1871)...
Newly Digitized George Hartsough Panama Canal Photographs Offer a Personal Look into a Massive Project
Posted July 1, 2024
The George Hartsough Panama Canal Photographs, held in the collection of the Northwestern University Transportation Library, have been added to the library’s Digital Collections...
Velocipedomania! Cyclists Pave the Way for Road Infrastructure
Posted May 17, 2024
Today, cyclists are widely seen as secondary road users in the United States, with the design of many roads hostile to their very presence....