Fall Break Hours

Hours for the Library during Fall Break will be: Van WylenFriday, October 11    8am – 5pm        Saturday, October 12    Closed                Sunday, October 13    Closed                Monday, October 14    9am – 5pm            Tuesday, October 15    8am – Midnight            Wednesday, October 16    8am – Midnight        Cup & …

Meet Annemarieke Ryskamp

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 …

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 …

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 …

Rare Book School

Some people call it “summer camp for librarians.” I would never use this phrase to describe Rare Book School, and not only because I have way too much style to do so. RBS, a well-known program which operates out of the Alderman Library at the University of Virginia, is much more than that. It is, …

Remember to Return Your Library Materials!

With the end of the semester right around the corner, it’s easy to forget all those library materials you’ve checked out. To avoid being charged any fines or fees, please return your books, DVDs, CDs, and other items by Wednesday, May 1. If you’re not sure what you have checked out or how much money you …

Paper Waste on Display to Promote Sustainability

During the month of March, Van Wylen Library collected the waste paper left at the end of the day from the printers on the first and second floors of the library. The paper was then assembled into a display on the second floor of the library near Tech Services in order to raise awareness about …