Historian Matthew Lockwood’s Explorers: A New History narrates lives filled with imagination and wonder, curiosity, connection, and exchange. Familiar icons of exploration like Pocahontas, Columbus, Sacagawea, and Captain Cook find new company in the untold stories of people usually denied the title “explorers,” including immigrants, indigenous interpreters, local guides, and fugitive slaves. Once you are Read More

Start the spring semester with the perfect blend of productivity and relaxation. This month’s Mullen It Over highlights library resources to kickstart your studies, cozy craft events to unwind, and new exhibits to inspire. Explore research guides, LinkedIn Learning, and study spaces arranged to help you thrive all semester long.

January 1st is celebrated as Public Domain Day. Each year, works that are no longer covered by copyright protection are added to the public domain. For 2025, books published in 1929 and sound recordings released in 1924 are now in the public domain and can be used to create new material without the author’s permission. Read More

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

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

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

November 20th is GIS Day, a commemoration intended to celebrate the uses of Geographic Information System (GIS) in research and everyday life. This year marks a significant milestone: the 25th anniversary of GIS Day. The theme for this year’s celebration focuses on how GIS has transformed the way people understand and engage with the world Read More