Niche publications round out Transportation Library collections
Posted April 18, 2024
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 A recent donation to Northwestern’s Transportation Library just made it the only institution in the United States with...Category: Collection Highlights
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...
Casey Jones Memorial Flower
Posted August 9, 2023
New Acquisition Highlight: Crocheted Flower, circa 1950, made by Janie Brady Jones, widow of folk hero railroad engineer Casey Jones In the early morning...
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...
Archaeology PhD student rethinks exhibition with virtual and augmented reality
Posted May 16, 2023
By Elena Hubert ’25 European aristocrats looking to heighten their social clout in the 17th century relied on “cabinets of curiosities” as showcases of...
Power in poetry: How Jones made University Press a champion of the verse
Posted April 24, 2023
By Elena Hubert ’25 Parneshia Jones doesn’t consider herself a poet first and foremost. She’s a writer and a “few-and-far-between poet,” alongside being a...
‘Timetable Firsts’ exhibit reveals impactful moments in 20th century transportation history
Posted March 10, 2023
Printed timetables were, by definition, ephemeral. Airline and railroad schedules were regularly updated, and with the release of a new timetable, the previous edition...
The Aggregate: Environmental Data
Posted April 21, 2020
Northwestern celebrates Earth Month virtually throughout April by engaging the Northwestern community in issues around sustainability. In honor of Earth Day tomorrow, Anne Zald,...
Addition of McCormick papers makes Libraries a journalism history hub
Posted March 6, 2020
Before the addition of the Robert R. McCormick’s personal and business papers, Northwestern Libraries already had a substantial collection of journalism archives deposited by...