It has been a busy summer in Van Wylen Library as various areas and rooms have received facelifts. The most obvious change is the Current Periodical section, which had half of the shelves removed and the remaining ones rotated 90 degrees. The original amount of shelving was no longer necessary as the library has canceled …
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Accessing Journals through the Library Website
Van Wylen Library currently has access to over 47,000 unique journal titles. The best way to find out whether or not the library has access to a particular journal title is to select the “journals” tab of the library’s website. The “journals” tab is located in two places for your convenience: either at the top …
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The Third Place
What does Van Wylen Library, an ACRL award winning library have to do with Third Place? Hopefully, everything! Van Wylen Library is a place for students, faculty and staff to mix, mingle and be. Be studious. Be relaxed. Be alone. Be with others. Be talkative. Be quiet. We are more than a library – we’re …
Special Thanks to all our Summer Student Library Workers!
So, you might wonder what the library staff does during the summer months…. Of course the library is open and of course our staff is busy, especially our amazing student workers who are currently working hard during the summer months not only in their regular jobs but also: • Assisting patrons at all service desks• …
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Keeping up with Conferences
To keep up with current practices, technologies, and trends in the seemingly ever-changing world of libraries and information, librarians regularly attend professional conferences. Recently, Hope College librarians have attended: Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), American Library Association (ALA), Michigan Library Association (MLA), the Innovative Users Group (IUG), and The Charleston Conference. These provide …
Castles, Palaces, Manors and Estates
The library has acquired a wonderful collection of guidebooks to a wide variety of castles, palaces, manor houses, estates and cathedrals in Britain and France. Most of these will not be added to the library collection. If you would like to do some arm chair traveling or are traveling to Europe this summer, please help …
Book in Common
The book Hunger & Happiness: Feeding the Hungry, Nourishing Our Souls has been chosen as the book-in-common for fall 2010 first year students. These new students will be asked to purchase the book over the summer and read it before coming to campus. Since Orientation and Critical Issues are two key programs that will engage …
Library Says Goodbye to Graduating Seniors
As we have highlighted in the past, the library relies heavily on our fantastic student workers. This year we have a total of thirty graduating student workers in Hope’s Libraries. The library honored these students at a Wednesday luncheon at Butch’s. We spent the time hearing about students’ future plans and reminiscing about their time …
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Honored Alumni
Alumni Weekend will take place from Friday, April 30 through Sunday, May 2. As a part of the celebrations, five alumni from Hope will be honored. Rev. Dr. Carol Bechtel (’81), Dr. Robert Donia (’67), and Dean Overman (’65) will all receive the Distinguished Alumni Award, and Jalaa’ Abdelwahab (’97) and John Conlon (’97) will …
Collection Highlights: Earth Day
Today is the 40th annual Earth Day, a day of awareness about the environment. If you’re interested in learning more about our planet and the environment, Van Wylen has a large collection for you to use. Credo Reference, one of the library’s online reference sources, recently added the Dictionary of Environmental Science and Technology to …