On Sunday, we said farewell to the Class of 2013. During exam week, the library held a goodbye luncheon for 16 fantastic seniors who have have been working in all areas of the library. In the words of director Kelly Jacobsma, “we truly couldn’t run the library without you.” Our Seniors are heading off to …
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Celebrating National Library Workers’ Day with Student Workers!
This week is National Library Week! As part of the celebration, Tuesday, April 16 is National Library Workers’ Day. Van Wylen would like to thank its many student employees for all the hard work they put in. Students work in several different departments at the library, including circulation, reserves, cataloging, interlibrary loan, and reference, and …
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Welcome Brianne Hagen!
Van Wylen Library would like to welcome Brianne Hagen to the library faculty. Brianne is the library’s new metadata librarian in the Technical Services and Systems Department at Van Wylen. As the metadata librarian, Brianne will connect library users with both print and digital collections using emerging metadata standards and traditional cataloging. She will also …
Farewell to Christine
Chistine Cho, who has served as our Metadata Librarian since 2010, will be leaving Hope College and the Library at the end of June. While we are saddened to lose a colleague and friend, we have been fortunate to benefit from Christine’s expertise and hard work for the past two years.Along with performing traditional cataloging, …
Honoring Priscilla Atkins
This past April, Priscilla Atkins announced that she was on the brink of completing her final semester at Van Wylen Library. For eighteen years, Priscilla has been a highly active, influential, and respected member of the Hope College community; the ways in which she has impacted the lives of both students and faculty colleagues are …
Library Congratulates its Graduating Senior Workers
Today we honored and celebrated our fantastic group of graduating Senior library workers with a luncheon at CityVu. We had 28 Seniors this year, some of whom have been working at the library all four years of their study at Hope. During this time these students built up some good memories from Van Wylen and …
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