Founders Type Newsletter

Huskie Commons, a service of the University Libraries, is the institutional repository for Northern Illinois University. It showcases and preserves the scholarly materials and creative works produced by NIU faculty, students and the NIU community, making the University’s research and scholarship freely available to the world. Huskie Commons includes more

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On November 7, 2025, the International Conference on Digital Preservation in Wellington, New Zealand recognized a paper written by members of the Digital POWRR Project team as the best paper presented at the event. Referees selected “Confidence, Community, and a Course of Action: Takeaways from Ten Years of Digital POWRR

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In 2024, Northern Illinois University’s Latino and Latin American Studies Center received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create the Midwest Latinx Oral History Digital Library. Most of the funding supported work at Northern Illinois University Libraries. In 2025, the new presidential administration withdrew this grant

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Have you ever wondered how researchers, students and lifelong learners find exactly what they need in a huge sea of information? The answer is metadata – the hidden framework that makes knowledge easy to find and use. Northern Illinois University Libraries will be welcoming a new Metadata Librarian, a role

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Check out the Winter 2023 issue of Founders Type, the University Libraries newsletter. Our newsletter is available for download.

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