Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections
Posted September 11, 2025
By Katarina Stiller, Conservation Resident Recently, a treatment was performed on a large and interesting collection in the Northwestern Libraries conservation lab. The project...
Posted September 6, 2024
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano Horror writer Michael McDowell was fascinated by death and the different practices and beliefs around it. As befitting the...
Posted August 27, 2024
By Jess Ortegon Over the years, Northwestern conservation staff have worked on a few sections of the Siege and Commune of Paris (ca. 1870-1871)...
Posted March 8, 2024
By Paul Feller-Simmons ’25 PhD and Phoenix Gonzalez ’26 PhD This blog post is adapted from the exhibition Scripts and Performances: Uncharted Medieval Manuscripts at...
Posted February 21, 2024
By Julie Calcagno What do sci-fi pulp, countercultural newspapers, and 1960s books on marijuana have in common? They’re enjoyable reads, food for thought and...
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...
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 December 1, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 This summer, the Libraries sent more than 40 rare items and 14 facsimiles to the Museo Nacional Centro...
Posted November 2, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 The posters, fliers, and ephemera in the Libraries’ Femina Collection overflow with remnants of the fight for gender...