Van Wylen Library offers a wide collection of resources that highlight many different subjects. Recently, new resources in religious studies have become available. The Greenwood Guides to Science and Religion, available from Credo Reference, give multiple options to find information on these subjects. These volumes can be accessed by any student, faculty, or staff with …
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Database Trials
New resources have been posted to the Van Wylen Library Database Trials page. Some databases may not be available off-campus. Try your hand at the following: Vogue Archives (expires October 31, 2013)-This database includes all issues of Vogue from 1892 to the present. Routledge Performance Archives (expires October 31, 2013)-Routledge performance Archive is a practitioner-focused …
Celebrate Open Access Week
International Open Access Week is in full swing with several universities, colleges, and other institutions combining their efforts to introduce and celebrate open access efforts throughout the world. Open Access (OA) is the freely available, electronic access to scholarly research with the intention of use and re-use. An OA journal attracts more readers, citations, and …
Myron Van Ark Postcard Collection
The Myron Van Ark Postcard Collection was recently posted on the imagecollections @ Hope College, the archival image repository which features rare and historic materials from the Hope College Libraries and Archives. This collection is a representation of the area of Holland in the form of postcards. Hundreds of these images were collected by Myron …
2008 Milestone Available Online
Hope College’s yearbook, Milestone, is now available in Digital Commons, Hope’s institutional repository, for the year 2008. Milestone is an annual publication of Hope College. The first yearbook was published in 1905 as a single edition and was titled The Hope College Annual. The yearbooks became an annual publication in 1916, which was also when …
Fall Break Hours
Hours for the Library during Fall Break will be: Van WylenFriday, October 11 8am – 5pm Saturday, October 12 Closed Sunday, October 13 Closed Monday, October 14 9am – 5pm Tuesday, October 15 8am – Midnight Wednesday, October 16 8am – Midnight Cup & …
Armenian Gospel – Part I
Editor’s note: The following is the first in a series about a book found within Van Wylen Library’s rare book collection written by Humanities Librarian, Patrick Morgan. Part II is available here. So, for the past few weeks I have been nursing a mild obsession (yes, these exist ) with a book we recently rediscovered among …
Meet Annemarieke Ryskamp
A number of years ago the library was happy to receive a large gift of rare Dutch materials from the library of Peter Van der Pas. Until recently, getting those materials cataloged and added to the collection has been challenging. We are fortunate to have native Dutch speaker Annemarike Ryskamp to help us with researching …