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Here for you – welcome to your library!

The Northwestern University Libraries welcomes students back to campus for the first day of fall quarter classes! Whether you are just getting to know...
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Casey Jones Memorial Flower

New Acquisition Highlight: Crocheted Flower, circa 1950, made by Janie Brady Jones, widow of folk hero railroad engineer Casey Jones In the early morning...
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New digital modules make library skills training easier to access

By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 Northwestern’s librarians are as knowledgeable as the books that line their workplace. They enjoy helping students locate information...
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One year after debut, Applied Transgender Studies journal continues to build bridges

“Whither Trans Studies?” asks editor TJ Billard in the first issue of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies published in June 2022. This foundational...
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Small changes, big improvements

The UX librarian works in the background, with results that are easy to grasp Imagine if someone moved the University Library entrance closer to...
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A collection of real impact

Transportation Library holdings link humans, history, and the environment On its maiden voyage across Lake Michigan, the SS Badger ferried passengers, autos, roll-on/roll-off freight...
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Practicum project revisits “Project Survival” climate activism event

By Elena Hubert ’25 From dusk to dawn, 10,000 people crowded the halls, classrooms and auditoriums of the Technological Institute with the world on...
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Papers of gay rights pioneer to be archived at Libraries

By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 Steve Pieters ’74 has stood under many spotlights in his lifetime—on stage, at the altar, on TV—and has...
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Latest OER Grant projects to save 940 students $110,000 per year

Seven faculty-led projects will receive at least $5,000 from the 2023 Open Educational Resource grant program to develop free teaching material for a Northwestern undergraduate...
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