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Travel grants put scholars in touch with rarest collections 

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

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

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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

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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