Many of you may have noticed the absence of Mathilde, the marble bust that resides next to the interior front doors of Van Wylen. This week Mathilde returned to her home after being restored and appraised by Kari Miller-Fenwood, Peter Fenwood, and Walker Glass, of Kari Miller Restoration. They carefully cleaned away years of accumulated …
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Ebrary Ebook Trial
Check out the library trial to ebrary Academic Complete ebooks during the month of June. Academic Complete includes instant access to more than 52,000 multidisciplinary titles from well known academic publishers and allows unlimited simultaneous access. If you have not experienced ebooks in a while, give this package a try. The advantages of ebooks include …
New Faculty Grant Search Service
This summer, Van Wylen’s reference department, in collaboration with Tracey Nally of the Sponsored Research Office, is piloting a new grant research service. Faculty members looking for grant funding for a specific project can now enlist the help of a research librarian. There is a form available on the faculty services page of the library …
HopeCAT Beta
Kudos and congratulations to the Technical Services Team (Derek Broyhill, Gloria Slaughter and Brian Yost) for designing and implementing a new and improved HopeCat! The Beta version is now available from the library home page. New features include a new improved interface that will look better on mobile devices, linking to reference sources and databases …
Farewell to Seniors
Yesterday, Hope celebrated graduation, welcoming about 745 students to the ranks of Hope College Alumni. The library also had its share of good-byes to say, with 27 student library workers graduating. The staff and students celebrated with a graduation lunch last Wednesday. Our students are heading out to do a range of exciting things with …
Exam Week Hours
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: …
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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