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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...