Mandolins, composers, and hair, oh my! (When 9 different research topics become 1 cohesive exhibit)
Posted January 11, 2019
By Carlynne Robinson, Registrar and Collections Coordinator How do you manage an exhibition with 10 different curators? You make a lot lists, schedule a...
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New library resources (and how to keep up with them)
Posted November 30, 2018
The Libraries are always acquiring new resources to further the research of students and faculty. Below we call out some of our most notable...
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Campus group takes the sting out of costly textbooks
Posted November 30, 2018
In response to the growing concern about escalating textbook costs from faculty and students, a network of faculty and staff has banded together to...
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Survival of a folk revival: Digitizing a vast music archive
Posted November 20, 2018
In the wood-paneled grandeur of the Joseph Spear Beck Angling Room, graduate student worker Joyy Norris ’18 MFA removed a slightly wrinkled piece of...
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Designing support for engineering DTC students
Posted November 19, 2018
By Becca Greenstein, STEM librarian Northwestern engineering students are solving real-world problems through ingenuity, imagination, and iteration— and now we are stepping up the...
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Dedicating a comics collection with the original True Believer
Posted November 12, 2018
By Benn Joseph, head of Archival Processing At the news of the passing of legendary comics creator Stan Lee, we looked back at the...
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Celebrate National Archives Month with us
Posted October 5, 2018
by Charla Wilson and Dana Lamparello, archivists October is National Archives Month, and what better way to celebrate it than with a word from...
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Hearing silences: A reflection on my year archiving the Black experience
Posted August 17, 2018
By Charla Wilson Just one year ago, I joined Northwestern University Libraries as the first Archivist for the Black Experience. This position was created...
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When Northwestern was a bastion of baton twirling
Posted July 24, 2018
This week, America’s best baton twirlers assemble in South Bend, Indiana, for the self-proclaimed “World Series of Twirling,” the America’s Youth on Parade competition....
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