The library has acquired a wonderful collection of guidebooks to a wide variety of castles, palaces, manor houses, estates and cathedrals in Britain and France. Most of these will not be added to the library collection. If you would like to do some arm chair traveling or are traveling to Europe this summer, please help …
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Book in Common
The book Hunger & Happiness: Feeding the Hungry, Nourishing Our Souls has been chosen as the book-in-common for fall 2010 first year students. These new students will be asked to purchase the book over the summer and read it before coming to campus. Since Orientation and Critical Issues are two key programs that will engage …
Discovery of Harry Truman Letter
This week, Director Kelly Jacobsma and Lauren Ferin ’12, who are working on a project with the Richard Wunder collection, discovered a letter signed by President Harry Truman from 1947. The letter is a brief thank-you note to NBC radio newsman Earl Godwin, for his Christmas gift of two dozen cans of pumpkin. It is …
Library Says Goodbye to Graduating Seniors
As we have highlighted in the past, the library relies heavily on our fantastic student workers. This year we have a total of thirty graduating student workers in Hope’s Libraries. The library honored these students at a Wednesday luncheon at Butch’s. We spent the time hearing about students’ future plans and reminiscing about their time …
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ARTstor
ARTstor is a unique database that features images rather than articles. The database began in the late 1990s with high resolution images of Buddhist art in cave grottoes from the Gobi desert and grew from there to include over one million images from a variety of topics, ranging from documentary photography to Islamic textiles. Even …
Honored Alumni
Alumni Weekend will take place from Friday, April 30 through Sunday, May 2. As a part of the celebrations, five alumni from Hope will be honored. Rev. Dr. Carol Bechtel (’81), Dr. Robert Donia (’67), and Dean Overman (’65) will all receive the Distinguished Alumni Award, and Jalaa’ Abdelwahab (’97) and John Conlon (’97) will …
Meet the Library: Circulation and Access Services
The main function of a library is to provide its patrons with access to resources, and every department in the library, whether it be interlibrary loan, reference, the music library, technical services, media services, or the TechLab is designed to do just that. Circulation, another integral area of the library, also plays an important role …
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Collection Highlights: Earth Day
Today is the 40th annual Earth Day, a day of awareness about the environment. If you’re interested in learning more about our planet and the environment, Van Wylen has a large collection for you to use. Credo Reference, one of the library’s online reference sources, recently added the Dictionary of Environmental Science and Technology to …
In Memory of Colleen Conway 1956 – 2010
It is with great sadness that we announce that Colleen Conway passed away on April 9, 2010 after a courageous battle with cancer. Colleen served the Van Wylen Library as Head of Technical Services from 1989 until 2009. In addition to her work with cataloging, serials and acquisitions, Colleen had a strong interest in rare …
Meet the Library: Media Services and the TechLab
Do you need to do a multimedia project for a class or want to print something in a way most campus printers can’t do? The Media Services desk and TechLab can help! The Media Services department has many functions such as checking out materials and doing special printing jobs. Lamination, large format printing, and color …
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