Performers from the Illinois Chamber Music Festival will be performing at Hope on Thursday, April 3rd (press release). This summer, they will perform and teach at Illinois Wesleyan University which provides biographical information of interest. The first image above is of cellist Tanya Remenikova, member of the faculty at the University of Minnesota School of …
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Women in Music
Today is the birthday of Diana Ross. The people at Guiness World Records have declared her the most successful female music artist of the 21st century. Although we have only one example of her work in our collection you can read about other women in music at the Music Library in the Nykerk/Wichers complex. And …
Connection: Tenth Annual Cesar Chavez Celebration
The Tenth Annual Cesar Chavez Celebration is Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Events are described in the Hope College press release. Dolores Huerta, co-founder with Chavez, of the United Farm Workers of America, gave an interview to the Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy in 2006 in which she reflects on the successes and continued …
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Connection: Lecture by Wildlife Biologist Dr. Rolf Peterson
One week from today, Monday, March 24, 2008, wildlife biologist Dr. Rolf Peterson will be speaking in the A. Paul Schaap Science Center at 4:00. Read more about Dr. Peterson and his research in the Hope College press release. In 2005, Peterson co-authored “Monitoring and Habitat Analysis for Wolves in Upper Michigan” in the Journal …
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The Content Keeps Coming
At least once a week I am notified of new content that has been added to our databases and electronic resources. Here are a few of the interesting items to come across my desk lately. Three new scholarly journals have been added to Project MUSE; the Journal for the Study of Radicalism (Michigan State University …
Holy Week
Easter, Holy Thursday, Good Friday; when you search for any of these terms in the library catalog you will find that our shelves are not all under one roof. Students at Hope may use the library at Western Theological Seminary just as Seminary students may use Van Wylen. Easter is in the Curriculum library as …
The Feast of Saint Patrick
There are a lot of things to wonder about this week: what to do on spring break; what are the Ides of March; why does everyone want to be Irish on the seventeenth? Since I am Irish I am going to talk about that last topic. The Feast day of Saint Patrick is both a …
March Madness
What’s on the shelves this Wednesday? March madness of course. Did you know that the phrase “March madness” was first used in 1939 to describe the Illinois High School Association’s basketball tournament? The Association even registered the trademark. Lots of interesting information about basketball can be found on the library shelves. If you love biographies, …