Alumni Weekend will take place from Friday, April 30 through Sunday, May 2. As a part of the celebrations, five alumni from Hope will be honored. Rev. Dr. Carol Bechtel (’81), Dr. Robert Donia (’67), and Dean Overman (’65) will all receive the Distinguished Alumni Award, and Jalaa’ Abdelwahab (’97) and John Conlon (’97) will …
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Meet the Library: Circulation and Access Services
The main function of a library is to provide its patrons with access to resources, and every department in the library, whether it be interlibrary loan, reference, the music library, technical services, media services, or the TechLab is designed to do just that. Circulation, another integral area of the library, also plays an important role …
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Collection Highlights: Earth Day
Today is the 40th annual Earth Day, a day of awareness about the environment. If you’re interested in learning more about our planet and the environment, Van Wylen has a large collection for you to use. Credo Reference, one of the library’s online reference sources, recently added the Dictionary of Environmental Science and Technology to …
In Memory of Colleen Conway 1956 – 2010
It is with great sadness that we announce that Colleen Conway passed away on April 9, 2010 after a courageous battle with cancer. Colleen served the Van Wylen Library as Head of Technical Services from 1989 until 2009. In addition to her work with cataloging, serials and acquisitions, Colleen had a strong interest in rare …
Meet the Library: Media Services and the TechLab
Do you need to do a multimedia project for a class or want to print something in a way most campus printers can’t do? The Media Services desk and TechLab can help! The Media Services department has many functions such as checking out materials and doing special printing jobs. Lamination, large format printing, and color …
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Visiting Writers Series: George Saunders
The final events of the 2009-2010 Visiting Writers Series will take place on Monday, April 12 with fiction writer George Saunders. Saunders, a creative writing professor at Syracuse University, has authored three collections of short stories: Pastoralia, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, and In Persuasion Nation. Both Pastoralia and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline were New York …
Behind the Curtain
On April 8, 9, and 10, Behind the Curtain will be shown in the main theatre in DeWitt. Behind the Curtain is a student production, put together by Sara Gosses (’10) and Jeri Frederickson (’10), that combines Canopy of Stars, from the production The Great Game, and Motherland. Both are 2009 British plays that focus …
Student Publishing in the Arts and Humanities
Attention Arts & Humanities Student-Scholars and Student-Artists! What do Hope students Michael Bertrand, Lauren Berka, and Katie Bode all have in common? Their names, academically speaking, are “up in lights.” All three are Humanities majors who have had their work published, while undergraduates here at Hope. Here are the citations, with the three students’ names …
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