Posted December 2, 2024
By Georgia Kerrigan ’27 After 5 years of storage in University Archives, a plaque memorializing 19th-century student Edward Spencer now hangs on the north...
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...
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...
Posted April 18, 2024
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 A recent donation to Northwestern’s Transportation Library just made it the only institution in the United States with...
Posted February 5, 2024
Sure, librarian Ted Quiballo was pleased to find out he had been named one of 10 winners of an annual recognition from the American...
Posted January 31, 2024
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...
Posted December 11, 2023
Imagine an undergraduate trying to brainstorm a fruitful theme for a term paper. One midnight, she is struck by inspiration, and opens the Libraries’...
Posted December 1, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 This summer, the Libraries sent more than 40 rare items and 14 facsimiles to the Museo Nacional Centro...
Posted November 21, 2023
The road to real research can begin in the most popcorny corners of pop culture — even a blockbuster comic-book movie, said Gene Kannenberg,...