Kathleen Bethel, esteemed African American studies librarian for 41 years, retires
Posted May 8, 2023
On Kathleen Bethel’s first day as a student at Elmhurst College in suburban Chicago, someone in a passing car shouted a racial epithet at...Blog
Browsing digital collections easier than ever
Posted May 4, 2023
Northwestern University Libraries’ Digital Collections, the main window into our digitized materials, has a new look that makes it easier than ever to explore our...
Yes, We Do That, Too! Preservation Week Insights
Posted May 1, 2023
Happy Preservation Week! It’s the best time of year because it’s an opportunity to talk endlessly about what preservation is and what our department...
Power in poetry: How Jones made University Press a champion of the verse
Posted April 24, 2023
By Elena Hubert ’25 Parneshia Jones doesn’t consider herself a poet first and foremost. She’s a writer and a “few-and-far-between poet,” alongside being a...
Problematic Metadata: Origins and Solutions
Posted April 17, 2023
When you think about a book of recipes, what word comes to mind? The answer to that question is most likely, “cookbook.” It may...
Graphic Design In Transportation: Snapshots from Transportation’s Winter Open House
Posted April 13, 2023
We invite you to join us at the Transportation Library for our Spring Open House on April 27 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.,...
Art and AI rendezvous in surrealist exhibit
Posted March 29, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 Famous surrealists of the 20th century often engaged in an activity dubbed “exquisite corpse;” dividing a paper into...
‘Timetable Firsts’ exhibit reveals impactful moments in 20th century transportation history
Posted March 10, 2023
Printed timetables were, by definition, ephemeral. Airline and railroad schedules were regularly updated, and with the release of a new timetable, the previous edition...
Weighing the four factors of fair use
Posted February 21, 2023
Happy Fair Use Week! In U.S. copyright law, fair use is a user’s right to make use of other creators’ copyrighted works for purposes...