Jenny Knauss and the Janes: The fight for abortion rights in ’70s Chicago
Posted November 2, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 The posters, fliers, and ephemera in the Libraries’ Femina Collection overflow with remnants of the fight for gender...
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Newly donated scrapbook documents life of 1930s running back
Posted October 20, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 Clarence Hinton ’38 was among the earliest students of color to play football for Northwestern. So, imagine his...
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The Libraries Mourn the Passing of Barry Olivier
Posted October 16, 2023
Barry Olivier, musician, guitar teacher and founder and producer of the Berkeley Folk Music Festival from 1958 to 1970, passed away on September 23....
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Practicum project revisits “Project Survival” climate activism event
Posted June 7, 2023
By Elena Hubert ’25 From dusk to dawn, 10,000 people crowded the halls, classrooms and auditoriums of the Technological Institute with the world on...
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Librarians as educators: Developing the annual faculty practicum
Posted May 11, 2023
In spring 2020, as the debate about delivering college courses got Zoomed into the national consciousness, a cross-campus partnership of Northwestern entities, including the...
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Kathleen Bethel, esteemed African American studies librarian for 41 years, retires
Posted May 8, 2023
On Kathleen Bethel’s first day as a student at Elmhurst College in suburban Chicago, someone in a passing car shouted a racial epithet at...
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Art and AI rendezvous in surrealist exhibit
Posted March 29, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 Famous surrealists of the 20th century often engaged in an activity dubbed “exquisite corpse;” dividing a paper into...
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Thomas Mann exhibit: What does it take to defend democracy from fascism?
Posted February 1, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 This quarter, the German department is working closely with Northwestern Libraries to bring a new exhibit to campus...
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Privacy Research Shows Hesitancy Sharing Data
Posted January 27, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 January 28 marks Data Privacy Day, which commemorates the 1981 signing of Convention 108, the first legally binding...
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