The library will be open extended hours for Finals Week. This includes a new early opening time of 11am on the Sunday before finals, in response to a request by Student Congress. Van Wylen’s exam week hours are as follows: Friday, April 29th: 8am – 10pm; Saturday, April 30th: 10am – 10pm; Sunday, May 1st: …
Monthly Archives: April 2011
The Atlas of Global Conservation
Tomorrow is Earth Day, and this whole week the campus has been celebrating and learning through a wide variety of events. The library has a wide variety of materials for exploring ways to be more earth conscious. One of Van Wylen Library’s reference materials is TheAtlas of Global Conservation. This book, published in 2010, covers …
ACRL Report
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) conference is held every two years in the early springtime. This year it was in Philadelphia, PA, and several Hope librarians, myself included, were able to attend. I always enjoy this conference as it is the largest, most diverse of its kind, dedicated to all aspects of …
CUR on Digital Commons
This week the campus is celebrating the National Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance Week. Check out the 1st floor display at Van Wylen for examples of the hundreds of books in our collection published by Hope College alumni. The library has also collaborated with the Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance to make digitally …
Visiting Writers Series: Diana Joseph and Kevin McFadden
This year’s Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series will conclude on April 14 with writers Diana Joseph and Kevin McFadden. Both will participate in a Q&A session at 3:30 in the DeWitt Center Herrick Room and give readings at the Knickerbocker Theatre at 7 p.m. Diana Joseph is the author of a collection of short stories …
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April is National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month so it’s particularly fitting that we keep an eye out for poems. Some poems are playful; some are serious; many are a mix. Here is a link to Bob Hicok’s poem about being from Michigan: A Primer. Here is a link to Lucille Clifton reading her short, playful poem Homage …
Web of Science
Congratulations are in order for David Myers of the Psychology Department, whose 1995 article in Psychological Science entitled “Who is Happy” (available to Hope users) (co-authored by Ed Diener of the University of Illinois) has just become the most-cited article produced at Hope College. According to the Web of Science database, Professor Myer’s article has …