This is your library – Welcome!
Posted September 20, 2022
The Northwestern University Libraries welcomes students back to campus for the beginning of fall quarter! Whether you are just getting to know the libraries...Blog
Preparing 17th-Century Texts for the EarlyPrint Digitization Project
Posted May 12, 2022
For the past couple of years, Northwestern University Libraries has been working to digitize a large group of English-language titles printed before the year...
Fleets of Modernism: the Streamliner Era and Beyond
Posted May 11, 2022
In his 1937 book The Locomotive (its esthetics), industrial designer Raymond Loewy writes that the opportunity to design a locomotive for the Pennsylvania Railroad...
Latest OER Grant projects to save 1,650 students $193K per year
Posted May 6, 2022
Sixteen applicants of the 2022 Open Educational Resource grant will receive at least $5,000 to develop free teaching material for a Northwestern undergraduate course....
Libraries add unlimited file storage to popular research tool
Posted April 28, 2022
Many students and faculty rely on the digital tool Zotero to organize their research literature, especially the all-important management of bibliographic citations. Now an upgrade funded...
Remembering Don Roberts, Music Library curator
Posted April 21, 2022
When Don Roberts became the second-ever head librarian for Northwestern’s Music Library in 1969, the library had a nuts-and-bolt mission: Provide whatever scores, records, and...
How to begin using OER (without making it yourself)
Posted March 9, 2022
By Lauren McKeen McDonald, Open Education Librarian If you’re an educator, you’ve probably heard of OER by now. OER stands for Open Educational Resources...
Black history exhibit built by students with library boost
Posted February 16, 2022
An extended collaboration between Northwestern faculty, students, and librarians resulted in this month’s debut of a new digital exhibit highlighting an under-researched segment of Black history...
Two upcoming grant opportunities empower creation of more open educational resources
Posted January 6, 2022
By Lauren McKeen McDonald, Open Education Librarian According to a recent survey of Northwestern students, 53 percent reported either avoiding certain courses, dropping courses,...