VWS Presents: Ismet Prcic & Benjamin Busch

The Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series continues on Thursday, January 30 with authors Benjamin Busch and Ismet Prcic. The authors will be available in Fried-Hemenway Auditorium, Martha Miller Center for a Q&A session at 3:30pm. A reading will take place in Winants Auditorium, Graves Hall at 7:00pm. To learn more about the authors and the Visiting …

Michigana: Sources in U.S. History Online

Did you know January 26 marked Michigan’s 177th year as a state? You can learn more about Michigan’s history with resources from Van Wylen Library.  Michigana: Sources in U.S. History Online is now available to Hope users. Over 130 works, ranging from poetry to war reports, cover the history of the land that eventually became …

Civil Rights Week

The 2014 Civil Rights Week is underway at Hope. Events sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Education will be happening throughout the week. On Tuesday, January 21 at 7pm in Dimnent Memorial Chapel, Dr. Gwendolyn E. Boyd, president-elect of Alabama State University, will be giving a keynote speech entitled “The Heart of an Activist: Grow Local, …

BiblioBoard

We recently subscribed to BiblioBoard®, a digital library consisting of collections of books, images, articles, audio, and video. BiblioBoard® is built around the user experience, allowing access from anywhere on a well-designed platform available via the web or on mobile devices. What you get: There is a lot of content, millions of pages of primary …

Armenian Gospel – Part II

Editor’s note: The following, written by Humanities Librarian Patrick Morgan, is the second in a series about a book found within Van Wylen Library’s rare book collection. Read the first post here. I would like to claim that the delay in writing up this second installment of the Armenian Gospel saga is due only to my refractory …

Charge Your Phone at the Library

Need a charge for a phone or device? We just added a KwikBoost charging station! It’s located on the first floor of the library, in the periodical reading area. The station comes equipped with 8 Full Speed Charging Cables, including 4 110v outlets, 4 Apple cables, and 4 Micro cables. Grab your phone, tablet, or …