Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month
The City of Chicago experienced the celebration of Mexican Independence Day throughout neighborhoods and in the downtown area, this past week. September and October holds significance for the Latinx and Hispanic communities, though the cars honking and people dancing in the streets brings both joy to the revelers and frustration to motorists. Many Latin American […]
Samuel Steward: Loyola’s Extraordinary English Professor
By Charles Greene As the library celebrates PRIDE Month we thought we would turn our focus to one of our own. From 1936 to 1946 Samuel Morris Steward served as a professor of English here at Loyola University Chicago. And although his is a name lost to our current campus community, Samuel Steward is definitely […]
FREE CREATIVE SOFTWARE, Part 1: OBS STUDIO
Contributed by David Schmidt Are you waiting for campus to re-open and you’re looking for something positive to do while isolating? Why not learn new software? There are lots of great creative digital tools that are absolutely free, that you can do amazing things with! Have you ever considered creating your own Podcast? You can […]
Find the Library at Your Place
Lewis Library: Now & Then Each year, National Library Week occupies a time and space in April. Themes are chosen to represent how libraries impact our lives, usually many months before the actual week. That’s why, this year’s theme may have seemed a bit ironic (don’t you think?) due to the current pandemic that’s engulfing […]
Open Access Week: You Guessed How Much We Spend
Last week during Open Access Week if you walked through Lewis Library or the Information Commons, you might have noticed a large tub of candy. Each piece of candy represented $10,000 spent on journals and databases, and we asked you to guess how many pieces of candy were in the box. We chose six winners […]
Meet Lewis Library’s Game Collection!
Did you know that you can check out table top games at Lewis Library? And that you can check them out for 3 whole days? Well you can! The collection has a wide range of table top games suitable for all experience levels. Our Libguide contains videos on how to play and other instructional materials. […]