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...
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Past lives wander the Libraries – it’s anyone’s guess if they’re spectral
Posted October 28, 2022
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 For an institution that’s been around since 1851, Northwestern is seemingly short on ghost stories. The groaning of...
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Dolphin swims ashore: 50 years (and a little bit more) of student musicals
Posted May 24, 2021
By Kevin Leonard, University Archivist Northwestern’s Dolphin Show is celebrated as the largest student-produced musical in the United States. It has entertained the University...
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Spreading “the living word of poetry” with poet laureate Angela Jackson
Posted April 15, 2021
Illinois poet laureate Angela Jackson has a post-pandemic mission of bringing the ephemeral beauty of poetry into the physical world. Whether it’s in schools,...
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Fair Use Week celebrates copyright flexibility for all
Posted February 21, 2021
By Liz Hamilton, copyright librarian Happy Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week! This international event, observed February 22-26, celebrates fair use (an exception under copyright law...
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On the Same Terms: Documenting the Lives of Northwestern Women
Posted May 29, 2020
“On the Same Terms” is an exhibition and blog series dedicated to this academic year’s commemoration of the 150-year anniversary of the admission of women to...
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On the Same Terms: Housing Northwestern’s Women, 1872-1993
Posted May 22, 2020
“On the Same Terms” is an exhibition and blog series dedicated to this academic year’s commemoration of the 150-year anniversary of the admission of women to...
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On the Same Terms: Women library leaders at Northwestern
Posted May 1, 2020
“On the Same Terms” is an exhibition and blog series dedicated to this academic year’s commemoration of the 150-year anniversary of the admission of women to...
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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...
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