The 82nd annual Academy Awards will take place this Sunday in California. Even though Hope College may be far from the handing out of the golden statuettes, Van Wylen has many Oscar winning movies in its collection to help you get in the spirit of the awards. In the videorecording section on the second floor, …
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A.J. Muste Alcove
A.J. Muste, a prominent pacifist and labor activist, is one of Hope College’s most famous graduates. Muste was born in Zierkzee, the Netherlands in 1885 but moved to Grand Rapids with his family in 1891. He enrolled in the Hope Preparatory School in 1898 and entered Hope College in 1902, where he was a captain …
Google Scholar
Google Scholar is Google’s specialized search engine aimed at identifying scholarly literature online. “From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites” (About Google Scholar). You will often be required and, in fact, find …
LibGuides
One of the hardest parts of researching can be figuring out where to start. This past August, Van Wylen Library added a new tool to help you find the library sources that are most relevant to your topic: LibGuides. LibGuides are electronic guides that feature easy access to research information. Though the exact material on …
New Library Website
We are pleased to announce that over Winter Break we are releasing a major update to the Hope Libraries website. The new homepage in particular provides better navigation and easier access to research tools. Enhanced menu options include one click access to popular catalogs like MeLCat and WorldCat, and a new Rare Books page. There …
Collection Highlights: New Acquisitions
Interested in the library’s newest materials? Look no farther than the new acquisitions shelves, located on the first floor to the right of the Project Room. The materials on these shelves are arranged by the date they were added to the library’s collection, with the new books on the left, the newer books in the …
Meet the Library: Music Library
The music library is a specialized branch of Van Wylen that, as the name suggests, contains the library’s music collection. Located on the east side of Nykerk Hall, this branch of the library includes performance materials such as scores, CDs and DVDs of a musical nature, and a substantial amount of scholarly and instructional material …
Teaching Spaces in the Library
Many students frequent spaces in Van Wylen to complete the work they’ve been assigned in class, but did you know that there is also space available to teach class in the library? The Library Teaching Lab (LTL), TechLab, Granberg Room, and even the north end of the first floor can be reserved for class. One …
Visiting Writers Series: Melissa Delbridge
The Spring 2010 half of the Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series will begin with memoirist Melissa Delbridge. Delbridge, an archivist in the Rare Books, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, has been published in journals such as Southern Humanities Review, Third Coast, and Antioch Review. Her memoir, Family Bible, focuses on her life …
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New JSTOR Collections Added
One of the research databases Hope College subscribes to is JSTOR. This nonprofit organization began in 1995 with the intent of preserving scholarly writing in digital and print form. By making this information available on the Internet, libraries would be able to save space, keep information constantly available to everyone with no risk of loss, …