Remembering Don Roberts, Music Library curator
Posted April 21, 2022
When Don Roberts became the second-ever head librarian for Northwestern’s Music Library in 1969, the library had a nuts-and-bolt mission: Provide whatever scores, records, and...Category: Footnotes
Black history exhibit built by students with library boost
Posted February 16, 2022
An extended collaboration between Northwestern faculty, students, and librarians resulted in this month’s debut of a new digital exhibit highlighting an under-researched segment of Black history...
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,...
In demand more than ever, librarians working diligently to serve campus
Posted May 15, 2020
By Sarah M. Pritchard, Dean of Libraries and Charles Deering McCormick University Librarian Libraries are essential services to a campus in the best of...
Copyright during COVID-19: A Q&A with copyright librarian Liz Hamilton
Posted May 14, 2020
Liz Hamilton is the copyright librarian for Northwestern Libraries and University Press. She responds to all kinds of copyright questions, from information on copyright law...
Teaching with primary sources during a pandemic: A digital cabinet of curiosities
Posted May 13, 2020
By Jason Nargis, Special Collections Librarian for Instruction & Curriculum One of my favorite times of the academic year is toward the end of...
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...
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...
Tribute to the Tribune: The broad impact of Robert McCormick’s archive
Posted April 16, 2020
One by one, three white trucks pulled up to the University Library loading dock in January, laden with the contents of the largest archive...