Beginning Monday, November 10, Van Wylen Library is hosting a food drive to benefit Community Action House of Holland. Please consider picking up a few extra items next time you go grocery shopping to help families and individuals who are in need in our community. Donations can be dropped off at the display in the …
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Hope College students and staff now have full complimentary access to NYTimes.com and NYTimes mobile apps,* thanks to a schoolwide subscription provided by your library. Your access to NYTimes.com is available from any location on or off campus. We encourage you to take advantage of the world-class journalism of The New York Times to enrich …
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Win a free paperback copy of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee! 10 winners will be drawn on Friday, October 24. To be eligible, you must DESIGN a mockingbird using the template provided. Copies of the mockingbird template can be found at the CIRCULATION desk, RESEARCH HELP desk, and the MEDIATECH desk. Place your completed mockingbird design(s) in …
Van Wylen Klooster Center Cup & Chaucer Friday, October 3 8am – 5pm 8am – 5pm 8am – 3pm Saturday, October 4 Closed Closed Closed Sunday, October 5 Closed Closed Closed Monday, October 6 8am – 5pm 10am – 5pm Closed Tuesday, October 7 8am – Midnight 1pm – 11pm Closed Wednesday, October 8 8am …
Editor’s note: This post by Gloria Slaughter, Technical Services Librarian at Van Wylen, is in response to an actual question posed by a student at the reference desk. You can contact Gloria at slaughterg@hope.edu: Question: Can I check out a book and a laptop at the same time? Short Answer: Of course! You may have …
Editor’s note: This post by Patrick Morgan is in regards to the recent Critical Issues Symposium held at Hope College. Contact Patrick at morganp@hope.edu We – the privileged fraction of humanity with enough access to the very basic things (like food, water, and shelter) to allow us both leisure and capital – often take the structures and …
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The annual Criticial Issues Symposium (CIS) takes place on September 23 and 24 at Hope College. This year’s topic is Technology and the Future of Being Human. The first speaker, Douglas Rushkoff, will kick off events on Tuesday, September 23 at 7pm in Dimnent Chapel with his keynote address entitled Who is on Team Human? …
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The Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series of Hope College begins this year with two Hope grads. Katherine Bode-Lang is the author of The Reformation, a recent winner of the 2014 American Review/Honickman First Book Prize. Laura Donnelly published her first book of poetry in 2013, entitled Watershed, which won the 2013 Cider Press Review Editors …
What makes a book rare or special? How do we, as librarians and archivists, create access to our often siloed rare book collections? These are some of the questions I had a chance to ponder while attending Rare Book School at the Alderman Library on the campus of the University of Virginia this summer. Thanks …
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You can help improve the library by taking the HEDS Research Practices Survey. Check your email for the link. The survey is open until September 12. For 15 minutes of your time you will be entered for a raffle of participating Hope students for an iPad Mini or one of six $50 Amazon gift cards! …
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