Open For Textbooks: Open Access Week 2019
Need to check out a textbook? The University Libraries has textbooks from among the largest classes on campus. Starting this semester, we also have all of the required textbooks for Arrupe College courses. Why do the Libraries offer textbooks? During the 2018-19 academic year, the average undergraduate student needed to budget $1,240-1,440 for books and […]
University Libraries Celebrates Open Access Week and Friends of Libraries Week
Loyola University Chicago Libraries celebrates two important awareness events the week of October 20th — Open Access Week and National Friends of Libraries Week. In 2009, the Friends of the Loyola University Chicago Libraries was founded as an organization that supports the libraries’ vision of being Loyola’s gateway to the world of information and scholarship. […]
Welcome to Open Access Week 2019
Open Access Week is a yearly celebration of all the work that goes in to making open scholarship, data, and education resources. This year’s international theme “Open for Whom?” invites us to consider equity. Whose voices are included in open scholarship? Whose work “counts”? What Is Open Access? “Open access” is a term used to […]
Explore University Libraries Digital Collections
Experience commencement 100 years ago. See Sister Jean in the early 1970s. Go to church on a boat. Read a letter from Alexander Hamilton. These are just a few of the many digital collections available on a new platform for digital collections at the University Libraries. This tool, called Preservica, allows us to manage […]
Book a Trip to the Libraries: Passport Game
How to Play Welcome Loyola students! We are excited to start the Fall 2019 semester with you and this year we want everyone to visit the libraries and learn about our resources and services. To help guide you around our locations, we created a Loyola Libraries Digital Passport and game with loads of helpful information […]
About the Panelists: Political Cartoons: Then and Now
Political cartoons are entertaining art forms that portray public figures and current events in humorous yet thought-provoking ways. With the current use of memes, are political cartoons a dying art? How will they stay relevant in the future? Join us for a fascinating look at the history and evolution of political cartoons as a genre. […]