Garry Marshall exhibit puts the NU in ‘Nanu Nanu’
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...Category: University Archives
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Devoted donor and alumna Leslie Cameron Devereaux wanted Libraries to be “an extraordinary experience” for students
Posted October 4, 2024
As a lifelong supporter of Northwestern Athletics and Northwestern Libraries, Leslie Cameron Devereaux found the perfect opportunity to combine her interests in 2015, when...
Digital exhibit recreates the ‘sound world’ of Beethoven’s bassist using library collections
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...
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...
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...
Papers of gay rights pioneer to be archived at Libraries
Posted June 6, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 Steve Pieters ’74 has stood under many spotlights in his lifetime—on stage, at the altar, on TV—and has...
“That’s Grandma!”: Finding family in the archives
Posted May 26, 2023
Archivists preserve information for the future for many reasons—some of them personal. This story appeared originally in the print edition of Footnotes, Fall 2010....
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...
Travel grants put scholars in touch with rarest collections
Posted January 25, 2023
A pilot project issuing travel grants to far-flung scholars for visiting Northwestern Libraries collections in person was such a success for the 2022-2023 academic...