Powering the Future: Electric and Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Posted January 21, 2026
A new exhibit, Powering the Future: Electric and Alternative Fuel Vehicles, is on display through July 2026 in the Transportation Library’s lobby exhibit space...Category: Collection Highlights
3,000 gifted books reveal treasures of the Jewish Enlightenment
Posted May 29, 2025
A 2023 gift from a downsizing library has led to a surprise-filled trove of Hebrew materials for the Libraries and an ambitious cataloguing project...
Breaking News! Big Bound Newspapers Get Boxed: Housing a Chicago Tribune Collection
Posted May 1, 2024
By Julie Calcagno Taking on a large collection housing project, especially if you’ve never done one before, can be daunting. There are so many...
Playing Tabletop Treasures from the Collections
Posted April 25, 2024
By Rachel Vigil and Gene Kannenberg, Jr. Though board games may not be the first thing that comes to mind when imagining the collections...
Scripts and Performances: Uncharted Medieval Music Manuscripts
Posted March 8, 2024
By Paul Feller-Simmons ’25 PhD and Phoenix Gonzalez ’26 PhD This blog post is adapted from the exhibition Scripts and Performances: Uncharted Medieval Manuscripts at...
“The Enterprizing Lunardi’s Grand Air Balloon”
Posted February 26, 2024
A new acquisition by the Transportation Library documents the first successful balloon flight in England. The 1784 broadside features an illustration of Vincent Lunardi’s...
Madrid museum features Northwestern avant garde materials
Posted December 1, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 This summer, the Libraries sent more than 40 rare items and 14 facsimiles to the Museo Nacional Centro...
Jenny Knauss and the Janes: The fight for abortion rights in ’70s Chicago
Posted November 2, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 The posters, fliers, and ephemera in the Libraries’ Femina Collection overflow with remnants of the fight for gender...
New and Notable Collections, October 2023
Posted October 9, 2023
Select recent additions to our print and digital. To follow new e-resources available at the Libraries, visit the New E-resources Blog and subscribe. Kansas...