On the Web: International Children’s Digital Library Foundation
The University Libraries are pleased to highlight the work of the International Children’s Digital Library Foundation, whose mission “is to support the world’s children in becoming effective members of the global community – who exhibit tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas — by making the best in children’s literature available online free of charge.” The […]
Libraries Website Survey continues through April 14th
Tell us what you think about the libraries’ recently redesigned website! Please help us improve the Loyola University Libraries’ website by completing this short SURVEY. All responses are collected anonymously. The survey is 12 questions and should take less than five minutes to complete. The survey will be open from March 31st to April 14th. […]
Historical photographs from the Library of Congress
Loyola isn’t the only library putting photographs up on Flickr; the Library of Congress has uploaded over 3,000 photos categorized into two sets, “News in the 1910s” and “1930s-40s in Color.” The latter set will be of special interest to those studying domestic life during World War II; there are fascinating shots of everything from […]
Loyola Libraries on goodreads.com
If you haven’t looked at our sidebar to the right, you’re missing a great chance to see what the faculty and staff at Loyola Libraries are reading. You may be only one click away from finding your next favorite book. The LOCL Reviews feature is an application from goodreads.com, a site we discovered not long […]
Our 4 Favorite Podcasts (for Music Lovers)
Anywhere you travel in Chicago (even if you’re only traveling to the stacks of the Loyola Libraries), you’re going to see a glut of MP3 players. But what are people plugging into? A recent inquiry at the library produced a number of surprising results for high-quality podcasts across a variety of interests: politics, television, music, […]
Our 7 Favorite Firefox Extensions
The time when users were restricted to one or two choices of Internet browsers is long over. Today, when users want to get their Web on, both PC and Mac users can choose from Safari, Opera, and Firefox (formerly known as Mozilla Firebird), in addition to browser standbys Netscape and Internet Explorer. Firefox, as you […]