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...Profile Cory Slowik
Birdwatchers rejoice; library kits foster campus wildlife curiosity
Posted May 7, 2024
By Liz Cassidy The other day on my way into University Library, a ruby-crowned kinglet fluttered past me. This paired with the cacophony of...
Scripts and Performances: Uncharted Medieval Music Manuscripts
Posted March 8, 2024
By Paul Feller-Simmons ’25 PhD and Phoenix Gonzalez ’26 PhD This blog post is adapted from the exhibition Scripts and Performances: Uncharted Medieval Manuscripts at...
Librarians and faculty partner on digital scholarship
Posted February 20, 2024
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...
New and Notable Collections, October 2023
Posted October 9, 2023
Select recent additions to our print and digital. To follow new e-resources available at the Libraries, visit the New E-resources Blog and subscribe. Kansas...
Beast of Burden: Digitizing Rolling Stones Summer Tour Archives
Posted September 21, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 In 1972, the Rolling Stones spent two months playing 48 shows across the United States after a three-year-long...
Here for you – welcome to your library!
Posted September 19, 2023
The Northwestern University Libraries welcomes students back to campus for the first day of fall quarter classes! Whether you are just getting to know...
New digital modules make library skills training easier to access
Posted August 3, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 Northwestern’s librarians are as knowledgeable as the books that line their workplace. They enjoy helping students locate information...
One year after debut, Applied Transgender Studies journal continues to build bridges
Posted July 18, 2023
“Whither Trans Studies?” asks editor TJ Billard in the first issue of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies published in June 2022. This foundational...