Free Resources in Response to COVID-19: What Faculty Need to Know
Posted April 7, 2020
By Liz Hamilton, Copyright Librarian Many vendors have been expanding user access to their digital resources in light of library closures due to COVID-19....Blog
Fifty years ago, Northwestern set the Earth Day standard
Posted April 1, 2020
Even before national activists could stage the first Earth Day in April 1970, Northwestern students and faculty led the way in pushing environmentalism into...
Library Course Reserve Service Updates to Faculty
Posted March 25, 2020
We live in extraordinary times. And the Libraries have already taken extraordinary steps to respond to COVID-19. As we continue looking for creative ways...
Addition of McCormick papers makes Libraries a journalism history hub
Posted March 6, 2020
Before the addition of the Robert R. McCormick’s personal and business papers, Northwestern Libraries already had a substantial collection of journalism archives deposited by...
Busted: The Top 5 myths about OER
Posted March 2, 2020
By Lauren McKeen, Librarian and Web Manager If you’re an educator, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve heard of OER, but you may be...
The Aggregate: China Statistical Yearbook
Posted February 4, 2020
Anne Zald serves as Northwestern’s Social Science Data Librarian (and also our Government Information Librarian). She supports faculty and students in their social science...
“On the Same Terms”: Women’s Professions and the Chicago Campus
Posted January 31, 2020
When Northwestern decided to add training in the “professions” (medicine and law) to its original liberal arts curriculum, it did so by affiliating with...
A Brutal Beauty
Posted January 27, 2020
When the plans for University Library were being developed in the 1960s, one concern was how a new, modern library would relate to the...
University Library at 50: A Brutalist Icon at the Heart of the Evanston Campus
Posted January 23, 2020
University Library was introduced in the May 1970 issue of American Libraries with the wonderfully-titled article, “Northwestern’s New Library … An Easy Mark for...