Special Libraries News
February 2008 Archives
February 29, 2008
Digital Collections Open House
Digital Collections will host an open house on Friday, April 11th to celebrate the grand opening of our new department and the launch of our new website!
Make your way to the Marjorie I Mitchell Digital Media Center between 2pm and 4pm to see demonstrations of our services, to test our software and equipment for yourself, and to enjoy a few delectable refreshments!
Formed in 2007, Digital Collections subsumed Digital Media Services, the Visual Media Collection, the Kirtas scanning initiative, and digital library project management. While digital content production is at the heart of Digital Collections, the department is also firmly committed to instruction, training and user support.
This event is open to the Northwestern Community. An RSVP is not required.
Join us as we celebrate our new beginning!
February 21, 2008
Special Collections: Winter Quarter 2008 Class Visits
The McCormick Library seminar room (Beck Room) may be reserved by faculty for special class sessions using the department’s materials. In winter quarter 17 class sessions were scheduled by faculty for classes in English, Art History, French, Spanish, Humanities, and Sociology. They showed students primary sources related to medieval writing and culture, Don Quixote, Walt Whitman, 17th-19th century economics, theatre, Black feminism in the 1970s, and the student protests in Paris in 1968. Contact a McCormick Library staff member to discuss the range of materials available and to schedule the use of the Beck Room for a class.
Special Collections: Second Wave On The Wall - Posters From The Women's Liberation Movement
This show highlights a selection of the many hundreds of Feminist posters belonging to the McCormick Library’s Femina Collection, which documents so called "Second Wave" Feminist activities worldwide from the 1960's to the present day. The exhibit will be in place until March 30th in our display area on the top floor of Deering. Many thanks to Kitz Rickert of the Conservation Lab for her help in mounting the show.
Archives: Northwestern's Lifesavers
Did you know that from 1877 to 1917, Northwestern students staffed a campus Lifesaving Station that saved more than 400 people from drowning in Lake Michigan? The story begins one morning in 1860, when a group of Northwestern students woke to discover passengers clinging to the wreckage of the Lady Elgin, which had collided with another ship during a storm the night before...
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