Join us April 08 – 12, 2019 at the following events or on social media: Download the National Library Week event schedule (PDF) Monday 4/08 Human Library Loyola 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. Water Tower Campus | Maguire Hall, 1st Floor |1 E. Pearson Street In half-hour sessions, you will have a chance to talk one-on-one with […]
The Loyola University Chicago Libraries Speaker Series event took place on Tuesday, February 5, 2019. Our featured author was Loyola Professor, Elliott J. Gorn, PhD, of the Department of History. His latest book, Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till, examines the life of a 14-year-old Chicago boy who was brutally murdered in 1955 in Mississippi, […]
The Importance of Being Funny
by Al Gini
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Please join us as Al Gini, Professor of Business Ethics, Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago, discusses his new book The Importance of Being Funny: Why We Need More Jokes in Our Lives.
Counting Time Like People Count Stars: Speaker Series with Spencer Reece
Monday, November 13, 2017
Voices Beyond the Wall: Film Screening
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Loyola University Chicago Libraries
and the Newberry Library
Present the Fifth Annual
FOCUS ON THE BOOK
Celebrating the 150th Anniversary
of the Birth of Marie Curie
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Friends of the Loyola Libraries Speaker Series welcomes
Jay R. Tunney
Shaw vs Tunney
March 21, 2017
On November 7, 2016 the Loyola University Libraries welcomed Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, PhD for the Friends of the Loyola Libraries Speaker Series: 2016 Race to the White House: Its Highs, Lows, and Historical Precedents. She discussed the highs and lows of the 2016 election to consider how unprecedented this unforgettable race was and how it […]
Focus on the Book
Stephen Enniss, PhD
Curating Our Time:
The Story of the Harry Ransom Center
November 30, 2016
Friends of the Loyola Libraries
Speaker Series
2016 Race to the White House: Its Highs, Lows, and Historical Precedents
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, PhD
Monday, November 7, 2016
Image: [Carl Sandburg, head and shoulders portrait, facing left / World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Ravenna]. (1955) [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, loc.gov/item/95517271. On April 7, 2016 the Loyola University Libraries presented: Troubadour for Our Times? A Panel Discussion on the Relevance of Carl Sandburg for Millennial Chicago featuring panelists Melissa Bradshaw (Department of […]
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