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Conservation Adaption of the Sewn Board Binding Structure

By Karissa Muratore As the new Conservation Resident at Northwestern University Libraries, and after having spent the previous six or so months in quarantine...
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Early Automobile Companies Ephemera Collection, 1910-1932

Dating from 1910 to 1932, the advertising materials and travel ephemera in the Early Automobile Companies Ephemera Collection, held in the collections of the...
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Archives Month: Archival Processing

It’s National Archives Month! But you knew that, right? Chicago Collections and the Chicago Area Archivists have adopted the theme of “Hidden Stories” for...
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LGBT collections bring a rainbow of color to library holdings

At the moment, Chicago is bookended between last weekend’s Pride Festival and this weekend’s Pride Parade. But the study of gender, sexuality and LGBT...
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Seeing in “4D”: Bucky Fuller’s manifesto & conservation decision-making

Conservators do their best to inflict as little change as possible on the items they treat. Sometimes this rule is straightforward; at other times,...
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Crossing the Desert in an Armchair

    The Nairn Transport Company operated a tourist bus route between Damascus and Baghdad between the 1920s and the 1950s. The company was...
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Library exhibit and lecture honor feminist icon

Marking the 50th anniversary of the National Organization for Women, NOW president Terry O’Neill ’74 will give a public lecture at Northwestern this fall...
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“Divine” medieval manuscript now available online

Recently, the Repository & Digital Curation team digitized the Libraries’ recently acquired copy of  La discipline d’amour divine (The Discipline of Divine Love). This exceedingly rare...
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