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...Category: Herskovits Library of African Studies
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...
Archive of Pier Larson, prominent historian of Africa, gifted to Herskovits Library
Posted November 1, 2021
The Northwestern Libraries are pleased to announce the receipt of the archive of historian Pier Larson (1961-2020), a renowned scholar of African history. The...
Fair Use Week celebrates copyright flexibility for all
Posted February 21, 2021
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...
Special Treatment: the care of African language books
Posted December 14, 2020
For decades, the Herskovits Library of African Studies has been collecting specific genres of books that are in African languages. Some are in widely...