Conservation Adaption of the Sewn Board Binding Structure
Posted August 19, 2021
By Karissa Muratore As the new Conservation Resident at Northwestern University Libraries, and after having spent the previous six or so months in quarantine...Tag: special collections
Early Automobile Companies Ephemera Collection, 1910-1932
Posted January 15, 2021
Dating from 1910 to 1932, the advertising materials and travel ephemera in the Early Automobile Companies Ephemera Collection, held in the collections of the...
Archives Month: Archival Processing
Posted October 17, 2017
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...
LGBT collections bring a rainbow of color to library holdings
Posted June 23, 2017
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...
Seeing in “4D”: Bucky Fuller’s manifesto & conservation decision-making
Posted April 20, 2017
Conservators do their best to inflict as little change as possible on the items they treat. Sometimes this rule is straightforward; at other times,...
Crossing the Desert in an Armchair
Posted March 14, 2017
The Nairn Transport Company operated a tourist bus route between Damascus and Baghdad between the 1920s and the 1950s. The company was...
Library exhibit and lecture honor feminist icon
Posted September 30, 2016
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...
“Divine” medieval manuscript now available online
Posted August 1, 2016
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...