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Category: Special Collections

Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections

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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Preparing 17th-Century Texts for the EarlyPrint Digitization Project

For the past couple of years, Northwestern University Libraries has been working to digitize a large group of English-language titles printed before the year...
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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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Faces in history: Treating caricatures of the Siege and Commune of Paris

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...
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Teaching with primary sources during a pandemic: A digital cabinet of curiosities

By Jason Nargis, Special Collections Librarian for Instruction & Curriculum One of my favorite times of the academic year is toward the end of...
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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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Tribute to the Tribune: The broad impact of Robert McCormick’s archive

One by one, three white trucks pulled up to the University Library loading dock in January, laden with the contents of the largest archive...
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Handmaid’s re-telling: Library holdings explore ‘One Book’ novel

A pair of classes from fall 2018 used the Libraries’ holdings to go deeper into themes of The Handmaid’s Tale, this year’s One Book...
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The legacy of Dr. King in our Distinctive Collections

Every well-stocked library has a shelf—perhaps many shelves—dedicated to the life and works of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. From biographies to the man’s...
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