Photography exhibit in the library showcases student art
Posted February 2, 2023
A new partnership between the Art Library and the department of Art Theory & Practice has created a space for showcasing student photography on...Blog
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...
Privacy Research Shows Hesitancy Sharing Data
Posted January 27, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 January 28 marks Data Privacy Day, which commemorates the 1981 signing of Convention 108, the first legally binding...
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...
Trucking By Electricity: The Fleet of the New York Edison Company
Posted January 11, 2023
The New York Edison Company was the largest provider of electricity in New York City in the 1920s, employing a fleet of several hundred...
New Round of Grant Funding for OER Creation
Posted January 10, 2023
The Affordable Instructional Resources (AIR) initiative invites Northwestern faculty to apply for $5,000 grants to develop Open Educational Resources (OER) for undergraduate courses. OER...
Researching the researchers: new archive collects notes from Environmental Impact Statement research
Posted January 9, 2023
The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 fully came into effect in January of 1970, and with it began the age of Environmental Impact...
World Cup exhibit pulls artifacts from 2010 event, but speaks to 2022
Posted December 12, 2022
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 Though the World Cup is half a world away, one graduate student at Northwestern is bringing the international...
Red, read wine: How librarians support research through evidence synthesis
Posted November 15, 2022
A research method used predominantly in health sciences to synthesize a wide range of information is increasingly finding its way into the social sciences...