Even though the current global health crisis has forced campus buildings like Loyola University Chicago Libraries to temporarily close its physical spaces, we continue to provide virtual services, resources, and digital content. We’re here to help. Learn more at libraries.luc.edu/continuity. This week is National Library Week. First sponsored in 1958 by the American Library Association and libraries […]
Welcome From Friends Past President
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 […]
Focus on the Book: December 8, 2015
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.
Civil War Chicago: Eyewitness to History
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.
Watch Mark Dimunation’s “Focus on the Book” Lecture
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 […]
Rough Justice under the Jolly Roger
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
The Great Cartoon Debate: April 15, 2015
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
Focus on the Book featuring Mark Dimunation
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
Speaker Series: Stuart Dybek
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.
Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey and His Sources (an exercise in presumption)
THIRD ANNUAL GREGORY AND ROSALIND TERRY LECTURE
Featuring
Karen Wilkin, author of
Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey
Wednesday, April 9
7 PM
Crown Center Auditorium
Lake Shore Campus
Loyola University Chicago
1001-25 W. Loyola Avenue
Please join the Loyola University Chicago Libraries for one of the highlight events of the Edward Gorey exhibition season as we welcome writer, independent curator, and critic specializing in 20th century modernism, Karen Wilkin.