Get to know a Digital Humanities Librarian: Josh Honn
Posted May 2, 2017
The Northwestern Libraries employ over 70 librarians who specialize in areas such as rare books, area studies, digital scholarship, and archives. In this series,...Blog
Seeing in “4D”: Bucky Fuller’s manifesto & conservation decision-making
Posted April 20, 2017
Conservators do their best to inflict as little change as possible on the items they treat. Sometimes this rule is straightforward; at other times,...
Coming soon: custom research guides in your Canvas course!
Posted April 17, 2017
Starting in Spring Quarter, you will see an enhancement integrated directly into your Canvas course sites: custom library research guides. Subject guides (AKA LibGuides)...
“Untitled” (The End): an installation by Félix González-Torres
Posted April 13, 2017
The following piece was written by guest contributor, Brian Leahy, exhibit curator and graduate student in Art History. Félix González-Torres, born in Cuba...
Get to know a Digital Publishing Librarian: Chris Diaz
Posted April 4, 2017
The Northwestern Libraries employ over 70 librarians who specialize in areas such as rare books, area studies, digital scholarship, and archives. In this series,...
Northwestern basketball: a history
Posted March 15, 2017
In light of Northwestern’s recent NCAA success, amaze your friends with your detailed knowledge of Wildcat basketball history.
Crossing the Desert in an Armchair
Posted March 14, 2017
The Nairn Transport Company operated a tourist bus route between Damascus and Baghdad between the 1920s and the 1950s. The company was...
Get to know a Data Librarian: Cunera Buys
Posted February 14, 2017
The Northwestern Libraries employ over 70 librarians who specialize in areas such as rare books, area studies, digital scholarship, and archives. In this series,...
The Red Scare: Washing & lining early Soviet propaganda posters
Posted January 25, 2017
Deering Special Collections has a group of roughly 250 Soviet propaganda posters, primarily from the 1930s and 1940s. A number of the posters were...