Honoring Priscilla Atkins

This past April, Priscilla Atkins announced that she was on the brink of completing her final semester at Van Wylen Library.  For eighteen years, Priscilla has been a highly active, influential, and respected member of the Hope College community; the ways in which she has impacted the lives of both students and faculty colleagues are …

Library Sustainable Collections Project is Underway

This summer the library is beginning a large-scale deselection project for monographs at the Van Wylen Library and the Music Library.  We will be making evidence-based decisions to carefully manage the deselection of low-use print monographs and also identify monograph titles for preservation.  This effort is part of a larger state-wide effort to cooperatively preserve …

Library Congratulates its Graduating Senior Workers

Today we honored and celebrated our fantastic group of graduating Senior library workers with a luncheon at CityVu.  We had 28 Seniors this year, some of whom have been working at the library all four years of their study at Hope.  During this time these students built up some good memories from Van Wylen and …