The Loyola University Chicago Libraries is pleased to welcome Loyola Professor Elliott J. Gorn as he discusses his latest book, Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till.  The event is on Tuesday, February 5, 2019, 6:00 PM Refreshments • 6:30 PM Author Talk.  The location is at the Information Commons, Fourth Floor, 6501 N. Kenmore Ave., Chicago, […]

WELCOME! For thousands of years, libraries have been at the heart of the academic enterprise. When you become a member of the Friends of the Loyola University Chicago Libraries you sustain that age-old tradition and propel it into the modern age. As Past President of the Friends and a member of the faculty, I know […]

The Other Book: The Ames Almanack
Opens a Window on Colonial America
Featuring Susan M. Allen, PhD
Director, California Rare Book School
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
5 p.m. reception, 6 p.m. program

In this age of e-books and e-readers, the word “book” has taken on new meanings. Yet the book in its printed form endures and is highly sought after by the general public, libraries, and book collectors. This lecture series has been created to celebrate the book in print, its form, function, and beauty, its historical importance and lasting nature. Come celebrate with us a “technology” that has been around since Johannes Gutenberg.

Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 6 p.m.
Klarchek Information Commons, Fourth Floor

Theodore J. Karamanski, PhD and Eileen M. McMahon, PhD, editors of Civil War Chicago: Eyewitness to History will discuss the Civil War’s transformative role in our city’s development as the heartland metropolis and the integral part that Chicagoans played in shaping the course of American history.

Mark Dimunation, Chief of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress since 1998, presented his lecture, Jefferson’s Enlightenment: Reconstructing Thomas Jefferson’s Library at the Library of Congress, at the second annual Focus on the Book (a lecture by and for bibliophiles) on December 3, 2014. For more information about Mark […]

Friends of the Loyola Libraries Speaker Series • 2014-2015

John Donoghue presents
Rough Justice under the Jolly Roger:
Pirates of the Caribbean and the Court of “King Death”

Thursday, February 12, 2015 • 6 PM
Klarchek Information Commons, 4th floor

Artists at odds:
Left, right and completely off-center

Featuring political cartoonists

Scott Stantis
of the Chicago Tribune and

David Fitzsimmons
of the Arizona Daily Star

Second Annual Focus on the Book
a lecture by and for bibliophiles, featuring

Mark Dimunation
Chief, Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress

Jefferson’s Enlightenment:
Reconstructing Thomas Jefferson’s Library at the Library of Congress

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

STUART DYBEK Presents Ecstatic Cahoots and Paper Lantern

Tuesday, September 30, 2014 at 6 PM

Please join us as we welcome back acclaimed writer and Loyola alumnus Stuart Dybek (BS ’64, MA ’68). 2014 marks the publication of both Ecstatic Cahoots: Fifty Short Stories and Paper Lantern: Love Stories, on which Mr. Dybek will speak and which will be available for purchasing and signing by the author.