A number of years ago the library was happy to receive a large gift of rare Dutch materials from the library of Peter Van der Pas. Until recently, getting those materials cataloged and added to the collection has been challenging. We are fortunate to have native Dutch speaker Annemarike Ryskamp to help us with researching …
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Visiting Writers Series
Today marks the beginning of the 2013/14 Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series of Hope College. Authors Todd Davis and David James will kick off the events with the Eighth Annual Tom Andrews Memorial Reading in the Fried-Hemenway Auditorium, Room 135, Martha Miller Center for a Q&A at 3:30 pm, then later a reading in the …
Presidential Colloquium
Wednesday, September 25th, marks the date of the Presidential Colloquium, a semiannual lecture series at Hope College where the community is invited to listen to several prestigious scholars speak on the topics of leadership, academy, and global civic engagement. At 4 pm, in Winants Auditorium of Graves Hall, lectures, panel responses drawn from the Hope …
You’re Invited!
Come one, come all! You are welcome to the Music Open House at the Van Wylen Library! On September 12, from 10:00 am to noon, the second floor of the library will be hosting a ‘Music Open House’, located near the music collection. This past summer marked the move of Hope College’s music library from …
Pine Grove Tree Identification
If you thought back to the last time you climbed a tree as a child, or begged your dad to build you a tree house in your backyard, were you ever curious to know how much that tree was worth? The truth is most likely not. However, Hope College has acquired an extremely impressive collection …
Browzine
The library is sponsoring BrowZine, a new tablet application that allows you to browse, read and monitor many of the library’s scholarly journals, all in a format optimized for your iPad or Android tablet! Built to accompany your searching needs, items found in BrowZine can easily be synced up with Zotero, Dropbox or several other …
Welcome Back!
Welcome to a new academic year! We’ve been super busy at the library this summer. Catch up on our activities here and here. Starting on Tuesday, 8/27, our regular hours for Fall 2013 are: Mon-Thu: 8am – MidnightFri: 8am – 6pm Sat: 10am – 6pm Sun: Noon – Midnight We want your experience to be the best it …
Introducing 1Search
Have you searched the library (online) lately? If so, you probably noticed something different. That something is the library’s new “discovery tool,” 1Search, which is now prominently featured front and center on the library homepage. With 1Search, you can start exploring the library’s diverse collections and online holdings from a single search box. Books and …
Conversations About Student Research
On July 25th, the Van Wylen research and instruction librarians hosted a meeting of the West Michigan Information Literacy Group. This is a group of teaching librarians who meet regularly to exchange “best practices” and to share ideas on how to better help students navigate the world of information. As usual when you get librarians together, stimulating conversation was shared by …
Mt Pisgah Outing
These students just moved a library…..they deserve a quick break! Every summer the Van Wylen Library employs about 20 students to not only help keep the library running smoothly during the summer months, but to also do some very important project work. One of our big projects this year was moving the music library from …