What is the seminar?

Fall semester seminar & topic in fall 2008

Winter/spring short-term seminars

Quotes from program alumni

The Library and its collection

Chicago -- a great city

Academic info: eligibility & credit

Costs, housing & how to apply

Contact: campus program advisors, ACM office

Opportunities for faculty

What's so special about the Newberry Library?

The Newberry Library is an independent research library, free and open to the public, located on the Near North Side of the city of Chicago. Founded in 1887, its holdings today number more than 1.5 million volumes and five million manuscript pages in the humanities.

The Library's collections focus on the civilizations of western Europe and the Americas from the late middle ages to the early 20th century. Highlights include:

American history and literature

• European discovery, exploration and settlement of the New World
• The American West
• Local history, family history and genealogy
• Native American history and literature
• Literature and history of the Midwest, especially the Chicago Renaissance

European history and literature

• The Renaissance
• French Revolutionary Era
• British literature and history
• Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian history British literature and history

Maps

Music

The community

The Library has built a community of scholars around its collection. Visitors include famed scholars from all over the world, as well as Chicagoans looking to trace their family trees. It has several special research centers and educational programs, including:

• The Center for Renaissance Studies
• The D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History
• The Dr. William M. Scholl Center for Family and Community History
• The Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography
• The Newberry Library Center for Public Programs
• The Newberry Seminar in the Humanities of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest and the Great Lakes Colleges Association Inc.
• The Newberry Library Undergraduate Seminar

Other programs and libraries

The Library also offers a variety of programs for the general public, open to students in the Newberry Seminar. These include non-credit seminars on topics in history, literature, religion and other fields, exhibits, and early music concerts featuring the Newberry Consort.

Students in the Newberry Seminar can also use other libraries in the Chicago area, including the Chicago Public Library, the Chicago Historical Society, and libraries at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago.