Alison Siegler has been named the Lillian E. Kraemer Clinical Professor in Public Interest Law, effective July 1. Siegler is the founding director of the Federal Criminal Justice Clinic (FCJC), the ...

The number of challenges in academic libraries is not zero,” says Blair Solon, collection analysis librarian at the ...

Julia Dudley is an Access Services Supervisor at Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY.

Libraries and archives at universities across the nation catalog and steward the donated papers of members of Congress. But that historically significant work is now in jeopardy.

Robert Shapiro, G.D. Searle exec who made NutraSweet a household name, has died at 86 The Skokie company Searle was purchased by Monsanto in 1985, and he climbed its corporate ranks, becoming CEO ...

Crews begin construction on The Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago on August 16, 2021. Inset: Former President Obama at Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20, 2025.

Photo credit: Chicago Public Library, (c) City of Chicago. When: 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025 Ages: 13-19 Where: Toman Branch, 2708 S. Pulaski Road Chicago Note: Advance registration is encouraged ...

CHICAGO — The ancient manuscript rested on the shelves of the Newberry Library for more than a century. Chicago library discovers it holds largest example in existence of an extremely rare paper ...

Protestors create a privacy wall during prayer as UChicago United for Palestine (UCUP) occupy an encampment on the main quad of the University of Chicago on April 29, 2024.

In addition to the Newberry’s staff, library workers in the suburbs also have unionized. Since 2020, library employees in the Niles-Maine district, Oak Lawn, St. Charles and Waukegan have organized.

In his paper, Ando pegs the university’s liabilities at $5.809 billion in 2022, more than double the $2.236 billion reported by the university in 2006. The annual cost of servicing the ...

The American Institute of Architects' Gold Medal goes to Carol Ross Barney. Past winners include Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Frank Gehry and Santiago Calatrava.