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Heidi Frostestad Kuehl has joined the Northern Illinois University College of Law faculty as director of the school’s law library and associate professor. In her new role, she directs the library staff in providing reference assistance to faculty, students and other library users. In addition, she teaches various legal research and legal technology classes at the...
Daniel Wilson
Are you smarter than your smart phone? Can you outdrive a self-driving car? The technology we rely on is becoming more and more sophisticated. Could humanity survive if that technology turned evil? Daniel H. Wilson, who explores the possibility of a machine uprising in his novel “Robopocalypse,” will visit NIU and the Sycamore Public Library this...
By Annie Oelschlager and Tiffany Arnold The Historic Scenic Collection, held in Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University’s Founders Memorial Library, contains intriguing documentation, photos, blueprints, and advertisements of the Chicago Lyric Opera dating back to the early 1900s. This collection is an amazing 163 linear feet of materials, spanning an entire century of...
By Ferald Bryan The most striking building on the Northern Illinois University campus is arguably Altgeld Hall. Most observers admire the stark Tudor Gothic “castle on the hill” without recalling the Illinois governor for whom it is named. The life of John Peter Altgeld is truly an American story and, to paraphrase the words of...
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