The library has acquired a wonderful collection of guidebooks to a wide variety of castles, palaces, manor houses, estates and cathedrals in Britain and France. Most of these will not be added to the library collection. If you would like to do some arm chair traveling or are traveling to Europe this summer, please help …
Monthly Archives: May 2010
Book in Common
The book Hunger & Happiness: Feeding the Hungry, Nourishing Our Souls has been chosen as the book-in-common for fall 2010 first year students. These new students will be asked to purchase the book over the summer and read it before coming to campus. Since Orientation and Critical Issues are two key programs that will engage …
Discovery of Harry Truman Letter
This week, Director Kelly Jacobsma and Lauren Ferin ’12, who are working on a project with the Richard Wunder collection, discovered a letter signed by President Harry Truman from 1947. The letter is a brief thank-you note to NBC radio newsman Earl Godwin, for his Christmas gift of two dozen cans of pumpkin. It is …
Library Says Goodbye to Graduating Seniors
As we have highlighted in the past, the library relies heavily on our fantastic student workers. This year we have a total of thirty graduating student workers in Hope’s Libraries. The library honored these students at a Wednesday luncheon at Butch’s. We spent the time hearing about students’ future plans and reminiscing about their time …
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ARTstor
ARTstor is a unique database that features images rather than articles. The database began in the late 1990s with high resolution images of Buddhist art in cave grottoes from the Gobi desert and grew from there to include over one million images from a variety of topics, ranging from documentary photography to Islamic textiles. Even …