The Tuesday after the Thanksgiving holiday is #GivingTuesday, November 30! Giving Tuesday is a charity-based social media movement to inspire others to give back to their communities and simply do good for others. The movement came about in 2012 after an awareness day of international charitable giving, helping others, and celebrating generosity was created by the United Nations. Now that we are back […]
Women and Leadership Archives Receives Grant to Digitize Mundelein College Historical Records
The Women and Leadership Archives (WLA) recently received an Illinois History-Digital Imaging grant award of $84,000 to digitize and provide online access through the Illinois Digital Archives to unique historical records of Mundelein College previously only available in person at the WLA. The Secretary of State/Illinois State Library funds the grant to support eligible libraries to carry out projects involving the digitization and provision of web access to their important historical […]
The Front Shelf: November 2021
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021 Each month, we will post a selection of recently-acquired books, from new releases to old classics, which have been added to our catalog and are available for use by the Loyola community. This series is inspired by The Seminary Co-op’s “The Front Table” publication: https://www.semcoop.com/. This month’s edition includes primarily print books. […]
It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity
The theme of this year’s Open Access Week is “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity.” Publishing materials open access means making them more widely available to the scholarly community and public. (Read a quick guide to open access here). But that is not enough to make scholarship open when some groups do […]
Polyglot! What’s a Polyglot?
The Loyola Archives and Special Collection has a polyglot bible from 1657 on display in Cudahy Library. What is a polyglot? A polyglot is a book containing versions of the same text in several languages. The term usually refers to a book containing multiple translations of the Bible. Come see what is considered the last […]
Alumni Author Spotlight: Eric Kessler
This month’s Alumni Author Spotlight is on Eric Kessler (MEd ’19) and his book, A Walk Through Rogers Park, an illustrative journey of his walks around his neighborhood during 2020. The Alumni Author Spotlight video series features brilliant Loyola alumni and affiliated authors throughout the year. Authors share their inspirations as well as read excerpts from their work. […]