The NIU Libraries Regional History Center and its collaboration with the Culinary Historians of Northern Illinois (CHNI) is featured in the December 2022 episode of the Under Rocks podcast. Head of Special Collections and Archives Brad Wiles, who arranged an event with CHNI, discusses the collection of community cookbooks donated
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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
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A new exhibit in the Southeast Asia Collection, fourth floor Founders Memorial Library, features an overview of traditional dances from several Southeast Asian countries. Traditional dance is an expression of cultural identity for the people of Southeast Asia. The dances are used to tell stories and perform the rituals of
Read moreThis week at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology in Pittsburgh, PA, professor Nestor Osorio received the Distinguished Member Award. The Distinguished Member Award is a competitive peer award based on excellent performance according to the following three criteria: Service and Leadership in ASIS&T,
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On October 20, 2022, Kimberly Shotick, Michele Hunt, Sata Prescott, Alissa Droog, and Sarah McHone-Chase presented a workshop: Policy Evaluation Workshop: Reviewing Library Policies through a DEI Lens at the Illinois Library Association Conference in Rosemont, Illinois. Libraries are situated in structures underpinned by white supremacy. We must actively engage
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On the first floor of the Founders Memorial Library hangs what may be the world’s largest disco ball. It also may be the most detailed representation ever of Huskie hometowns around the world. Or a high- resolution view of the surface of Mars, Jupiter or any of the other planets.
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NIU’s Rare Book Room’s History of the Book Seminar is a multidisciplinary colloquy in which NIU faculty and students can explore this rich and growing field together. The Seminar Series is an interdisciplinary realm of study that includes printing and publishing, materials and technologies of the book, the book trade,
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The NIU Library’s Special Collections and Archives (SCA) Department recently received a significant donation of books and manuscripts from the Culinary Historians of Northern Illinois (CHNI) related to its efforts to document the distinctive local food culture in the Northern Illinois region. To help celebrate this new partnership, NIU Libraries
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The Sones de México Ensemble will return to Northern Illinois University, this time joining Banda NIU and Mariachi NIU on stage for a concert that will feature a musical collaboration including different styles of Mexican traditional music, including regional styles of orchestral wind music. Sones de México’s first appearance at
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