One of the newest items in Van Wylen Library’s collection is the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion. Hope received its copy from Joanne Eicher, Regents’ Professer Emerita of the University of Minnesota, and general editor of the encyclopedia. She has spent her summers in Holland since 1967 and worked on the encyclopedia at …
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Need a study break this weekend? Why not check a movie out from the library? The library has over 5000 movies to choose from, and, best of all, it’s a free service. Van Wylen’s movie collection contains a wide range of materials. Some recent popular titles in Van Wylen’s collection include The Blind Side, Slumdog …
Author Cristina García will be on campus on Thursday, Oct. 14 for the second installment of this semester’s Jack Ridl Visting Writers Series. Her visit will include a WTHS interview at 11:15 a.m., a question and answer session in the Herrick Room in DeWitt at 3 p.m., and a reading at 7 p.m. in the …
Working on a research poster? There are several different resources on campus that can help you. Copy Works, the heart of printing at Hope, has a tip sheet on their website full of information. There, you can find advice and templates for both regular and tri-fold board displays. When making your poster, remember to put …
The Critical Issues Symposium is starts today. This year’s topic, Good Food for the Common Good, has a wide range of implications including hunger, food production, politics, and religion. Interested in learning more about food? The library has many resources related to a variety of subtopics regarding food. In addition to the books and DVDs …
The curriculum library, located on the second floor across from the Media Services desk, is a unique area in Van Wylen. While most of the library contains materials for college level research, the curriculum library contains a wide variety of things that may remind you of your elementary school days. Juvenile fiction ranging from picture …
The Pull is a distinctly Hope College tradition that dates back to 1898. Interested in learning what has changed and what has stayed the same about Pull in the past 113 years? The Joint Archives of Holland contains a large collection of Pull memories, articles, and memorabilia dating back to the early 1900s. Here are …
The annual Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series will begin on Tuesday, Sept. 21 with the fifth annual Tom Andrews Memorial Reading by Wayne Miller at 7 p.m. in the Knickerbocker Theater. A Hope jazz ensemble will begin the evening with music at 6:30 p.m. Miller has two poetry collections published. “Only the Senses Sleep” was …
The library is a fantastic place to go if you have things to print or copy. However, it is important to remember the environmental impact of the things we print. The two main library printers alone go through about five boxes of paper a week (that’s 50 reams, or 25,000 pgs!). The next time you …
Different stages of the writing process pose problems for different people. For some, trying to organize their research into a well-crafted paper is the hardest part of a writing assignment. For others, the rough draft is easy, but moving through rough drafts to a polished final draft is a challenge. Fortunately, the new Writing Corner, …
