The Catholic University of America Libraries and Department of Information Sciences are excited to announce our Digital Scholarship Workshops designed to equip students, faculty, and staff with the essential skills for modern research. These workshops will cover a range of topics including data visualization basics, building graphs for analysis using Tableau and Gephi, deploying the Read More

Robert Theodore Meyer was born August 6, 1911, third-generation in a lineage of farmers, in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio. He grew up working on the farm milking animals, taking care of the garden, eating cherry tomatoes, and rising well before the sun. Some of Meyer’s earliest memories recall his “one-room red school house”, which Read More

Donations have always been the main way for our rare book collections to grow. Books, manuscripts, pamphlets, and parish histories, donated by generous benefactors over many decades (including such great friends of our Library as Msgr. Arthur Connolly, James Card. Gibbons, Bishop Thomas J. Shahan, to name a few), became the lifeblood of our holdings. These Read More

The campus of the Catholic University of America, including Mullen Library, will be closed on Tuesday, January 7th, due to winter weather.

The campus of the Catholic University of America, including Mullen Library, will be closed on Monday, January 6th, due to winter weather.

As the campus quiets down with students departing for the holiday break, our staff is readying the stacks for the season. As this archivist goes about his work, his mind wanders off to all the holiday traditions that he will soon partake in: the food, the decorations, the gift exchanges, the religious services, and more! Read More

Guest blogger, Bianca Farmer, is a CatholicU Library Science student who did a class practicum working with CUA Special Collections. In the Fall semester of 2024, I enrolled in the Archives Management course. For our final assignment there was an option of completing a 16–18-page paper or volunteer to do a 50-hour practicum, I opted Read More

From our information desk to our guides to our fantastic librarians, this month’s Mullen It Over gives a play-by-play of all the ways the library can help keep you in the game. Also in our highlight reel is a reminder to return or renew you items before the winter break, our extended hours during finals, Read More

Mullen Library will close at 9 p.m. today (11/25/2024) and our overnight hours are cancelled due to an unresolved water main break on campus. We apologize for the inconvenience.

For musicians, it can be invaluable to not only listen to recordings while studying, but also to watch performances. We have several options to watch performances, but today I am going to highlight the Berliner Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall. The Digital Concert Hall provides streaming, high definition video of the Berlin Philharmonic’s performances. The library Read More