Stjopka Collages Revealed
Posted February 6, 2023
By Laura Berenger The collage artworks by Stjopka (born 1956) present a very detailed world and an imagination that is adventurous, historical, tender, macabre,...Category: Special Collections
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections
Thomas Mann exhibit: What does it take to defend democracy from fascism?
Posted February 1, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 This quarter, the German department is working closely with Northwestern Libraries to bring a new exhibit to campus...
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...
Preparing 17th-Century Texts for the EarlyPrint Digitization Project
Posted May 12, 2022
For the past couple of years, Northwestern University Libraries has been working to digitize a large group of English-language titles printed before the year...
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...
Faces in history: Treating caricatures of the Siege and Commune of Paris
Posted July 9, 2020
By Kimberly Kwan, conservation fellow Before the campus shutdown in the face of COVID-19, the Preservation department in University Library was nearing the end...
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...
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...