Archive of Berkeley Folk Music Festival fully available online
Posted October 8, 2020
Fifty years ago today, the famed Berkeley Folk Music Festival opened its annual concert series for the 15th and final time, presaging the sunset...Profile Drew Scott
Faces in history: Treating caricatures of the Siege and Commune of Paris
Posted July 9, 2020
By Kimberly Kwan, conservation fellow Before the campus shutdown in the face of COVID-19, the Preservation department in University Library was nearing the end...
In demand more than ever, librarians working diligently to serve campus
Posted May 15, 2020
By Sarah M. Pritchard, Dean of Libraries and Charles Deering McCormick University Librarian Libraries are essential services to a campus in the best of...
Copyright during COVID-19: A Q&A with copyright librarian Liz Hamilton
Posted May 14, 2020
Liz Hamilton is the copyright librarian for Northwestern Libraries and University Press. She responds to all kinds of copyright questions, from information on copyright law...
Teaching with primary sources during a pandemic: A digital cabinet of curiosities
Posted May 13, 2020
By Jason Nargis, Special Collections Librarian for Instruction & Curriculum One of my favorite times of the academic year is toward the end of...
New year, new reading room for combined Special Collections, University Archives
Posted April 24, 2020
Last fall, two of the Libraries’ rare-material collections and the archival processing unit combined under a new name: the Charles Deering McCormick Library of...
Tribute to the Tribune: The broad impact of Robert McCormick’s archive
Posted April 16, 2020
One by one, three white trucks pulled up to the University Library loading dock in January, laden with the contents of the largest archive...
Fifty years ago, Northwestern set the Earth Day standard
Posted April 1, 2020
Even before national activists could stage the first Earth Day in April 1970, Northwestern students and faculty led the way in pushing environmentalism into...
Library Course Reserve Service Updates to Faculty
Posted March 25, 2020
We live in extraordinary times. And the Libraries have already taken extraordinary steps to respond to COVID-19. As we continue looking for creative ways...