An American’s Africa: Digital exhibit examines cross-cultural tourism
Posted June 9, 2025
By Georgia Kerrigan ’27 It’s no surprise that the library houses everything from books and documents to manuscripts and diaries. But a real leopard...Category: Herskovits Library of African Studies
At 70, Herskovits Library still guards against erasure of African history
Posted January 21, 2025
By Georgia Kerrigan ’27 This academic year, Northwestern’s Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies celebrates its 70th anniversary. The library was founded in...
Preserving Panafrica: Ephemera in Art and Culture
Posted January 16, 2025
By Susan Russick Magazines. Brochures. Books. You expect to see these materials in a library setting, but not on exhibit in an art museum—and...
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...
Looking a Little Deeper: Conservation and Multispectral Imaging
Posted December 7, 2023
By Jess Ortegon During our work to care for the physical aspects of Northwestern University Libraries’ collections, we sometimes find that objects require a...
The Afrofuturist superhero prowling library stacks
Posted November 21, 2023
The road to real research can begin in the most popcorny corners of pop culture — even a blockbuster comic-book movie, said Gene Kannenberg,...
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...
Travel grants put scholars in touch with rarest collections
Posted January 25, 2023
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...
World Cup exhibit pulls artifacts from 2010 event, but speaks to 2022
Posted December 12, 2022
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 Though the World Cup is half a world away, one graduate student at Northwestern is bringing the international...