It is with great sadness that we announce that Colleen Conway passed away on April 9, 2010 after a courageous battle with cancer. Colleen served the Van Wylen Library as Head of Technical Services from 1989 until 2009. In addition to her work with cataloging, serials and acquisitions, Colleen had a strong interest in rare …
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Visiting Writers Series: George Saunders
The final events of the 2009-2010 Visiting Writers Series will take place on Monday, April 12 with fiction writer George Saunders. Saunders, a creative writing professor at Syracuse University, has authored three collections of short stories: Pastoralia, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, and In Persuasion Nation. Both Pastoralia and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline were New York …
Ethnic NewsWatch Database
Looking for a different perspective in your research? Ethnic NewsWatch could be the perfect database for you. This full-text database is made up of over 300 ethnic, minority, and native publications such as The Arab-American News, the Native American Times, and La Opinión. These and the many other titles you can access at Ethnic NewsWatch …
Student Faces of the Library
Student library workers are an important part of Van Wylen. Almost a hundred students support various aspects of library operations every semester. Here are four of the many students who help make the library a useful place to study and research: Circulation Desk Maria E. (’10) has worked in the library since her freshman year. …
Visiting Writers Series: Terrance Hayes
The second Visiting Writers Series event of 2010 will take place Tuesday, March 9, when poet Terrance Hayes comes to Hope College. Hayes is a professor of creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University and currently has three published collections of his poems. His most recent collection, Wind in Box, was chosen by Publishers Weekly as …
Google Scholar
Google Scholar is Google’s specialized search engine aimed at identifying scholarly literature online. “From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites” (About Google Scholar). You will often be required and, in fact, find …
New Library Website
We are pleased to announce that over Winter Break we are releasing a major update to the Hope Libraries website. The new homepage in particular provides better navigation and easier access to research tools. Enhanced menu options include one click access to popular catalogs like MeLCat and WorldCat, and a new Rare Books page. There …
Visiting Writers Series: Melissa Delbridge
The Spring 2010 half of the Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series will begin with memoirist Melissa Delbridge. Delbridge, an archivist in the Rare Books, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, has been published in journals such as Southern Humanities Review, Third Coast, and Antioch Review. Her memoir, Family Bible, focuses on her life …
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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? …
Connection: How much does Google know?
Advocates of privacy rights are leery of Google’s presence in our lives. Lots of news sources are covering this topic; national news outlets, sources in the information industry, business news analysts, politicians, academics, health professionals, and many, many more. PC Magazine Online published a summary article in 2007 that continues to encapsulate issues of concern. …