NIU Today

NIU Libraries are happy to announce that the 2023 “Wildlife from the NIU Campus and Along the Prairie Path” calendar is now available for purchase. A collaboration between NIU Libraries and local wildlife photographer/English Professor Emeritus Michael Day now in its second year, the calendar features a “hyperlocal” selection of photographs of birds, animals, and...

NIU alumna Paulette Hasier, chief of the Maps and Geography Division at the Library of Congress, will give a talk on the importance of geographical information at Founders Memorial Library at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, in the first-floor Founders Gallery. The talk will kick off the Women in STEM Speaker Series, co-sponsored by the...

NIU Libraries Dean Fred Barnhart, a champion of student success who played a key role in helping the university weather pandemic-related challenges, has accepted a second four-year appointment. “I’m excited to continue our work as we demonstrate that University Libraries is much more than books on the shelf or databases on a website,” Barnhart said....

As of  Monday, Jan. 31, researchers from across campus and the wider community have expanded access to the unique research collections held by the NIU Libraries. The Special Collections and Archives (SCA) Department is a newly created unit that coordinates the collecting, services, and programs of the Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC) and the...

For centuries, important cultural materials—from books, historical documents and letters to photographs, carvings and paintings—could be stored away, only to be rediscovered at some point in the future. However, as Northern Illinois University Libraries’ Jaime Schumacher points out, many contemporary materials that might be used by future generations to understand us are now only digital...

Leanne VandeCreek, University Libraries associate dean for Public Services, recently completed the inaugural Mid-American Conference (MAC) Academic Leadership Development Program and was part of a team that received a $10,000 research grant. “The MAC program offers NIU the opportunity to identify and cultivate people with strong leadership abilities,” said Fred Barnhart, dean of University Libraries....

The University Libraries are seeking help in making costly textbooks more accessible to NIU students. The NIU Libraries’ Textbook Affordability Task Force is calling on faculty and instructors to place copies of their course texts on reserve at the library and to help in selecting high-demand, high-cost textbooks to add to the Libraries’ permanent collection....

Resident stress relievers Gladus and Shurlee will hang out in the Founders Memorial Library lobby from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 9, and from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 10. For more information on either event, call 815-753-5290 or email kladell@niu.edu.

The University Libraries Dean candidates will be on campus beginning Tuesday, March 21. There are four candidates for this position. Below are the open forum session times and locations. The candidate CVs will be posted on this page 24-48 hours prior to interview. For information about attending other sessions or the full schedules, please contact...

The Council on Library and Information Resources has awarded the University Libraries, in collaboration with the Falvey Memorial Library at Villanova University, with a Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant for $448,893 to digitize its Johannsen Collection of dime novels and story papers. Dime novels were the direct precursors to the pulp magazine and...