Van Wylen Library is participating in Open Access Week, which runs from October 19-23. Previously just a national day of action, the week is now an international “opportunity to broaden awareness and understanding of open access issues and express support for free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research,” according to the movement’s …
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The Center for Research Libraries
Hope College is now a member of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), a partnership of more than 240 university, college, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching. These resources are then made available to member institutions cooperatively, through …
Finals Week at Hope – How Students Work
At lunch today I came across some statistics in a publication called NextSpace (By the Numbers: statistics to think about). 278 photo uploads per second to Facebook 10 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute 2,000,000 e-mails sent per second 100,000,000,000 clicks per day on the web 1,000,000 instant messages sent per second 55,000,000,000,000 …
Why the Library?
We know that for many of you entering Hope College this fall, using a library for research has not been a part of your past experience. And in the age of Google, Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest we have a pretty good idea why this is so. So what can we offer you when you ask …
Music in the Catalog
It’s Sir George Grove’s 188th birthday! This English music historian lends his name to one of the premier reference sources in music: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Even better, we have online access to Grove Music Online, a compilation of several music dictionaries. Not only can you read about music from your …
The Olympics
For the next few days world attention will be turned to the business of the Olympic games. They are not only a series of sporting events, they are also political and historical in nature. To supplement your television viewing I recommend the following: Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics by Jeremy …
The Pope
Pope Benedict I died on this date in 579. Today’s Pope Benedict XVI is not only a much studied Pope, he is a prolific author himself. Co-Workers for the Truth is a book of his daily meditations, God and the World is a more theological discussion of Catholicism. Between the collections of the college and …
Connection: CIS 2007 meets CIS 2008
Last week, the United States Senate passed the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, part of which lifts current restrictions that prevent HIV-positive individuals from immigrating to the United States. Read about this developing news story in a July 21st Africa News Service article. Curious to know more about connections between global health and immigration? …
Road Trip
On this date in 1903 the Ford Motor Company sold its first car. 105 years ago tomorrow some dad somewhere said “road trip!” and 30 minutes later the phrase “don’t make me stop this car” was uttered for the first time. We have some travel guides available electronically which might help you start planning your …
Fun Films
Disneyland Park opened 53 years ago today. You might be surprised to discover that we have many animated and children’s films in the Van Wylen collection, including favorites from the Disney Studios. If summer is getting a little long and boredom is setting in, check out our free rentals!