The first floor of Van Wylen Library will soon be host to Manifold Greatness, the traveling panel exhibition portion of a larger project produced by the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Bodleian Library to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the 1611 King James Bible. Van Wylen is one of 40 sites chosen to host this …
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Interested in getting some experience with scholarly exercises in your discipline? Or interested in exposing your students to more hands-on work in a field? Over the last few years, crowdsourcing projects have changed the ways in which laypeople can contribute to publicly available historical and scientific sources, particularly digitization projects. Advancing social media technology has …
Ever found yourself confused in your efforts to locate a book in Van Wylen? Though many public libraries use the Dewey system to organize their books, Van Wylen uses the Library of Congress classification system that utilizes letters rather than numbers to begin call numbers. Most academic libraries use the Library of Congress system because …
Since the Hope College Open Access Policy went into effect last October, there have been a number of developments in the push for open access, some good, some not so good. This is a recap of recent events related to open access and scholarly publishing. The Library joined the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions …
Van Wylen Library will have slightly different operating hours during winter break that are as follows: Friday, February 10: 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Saturday, February 11: Closed; Sunday, February 12: Closed; Monday, February 13: 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Tuesday, February 14: 8 a.m. – midnight. Enjoy your time off! — Bethany Stripp, Library …
From now until Feb. 24, the display cases on the first floor of Van Wylen will feature artwork created by the students of Stephanie Milanowski’s Design II class. For this project, students took old books and used them to make a variety of designs, including a tea cup, a shoe and a circus tent. While …
In 1972, Hope College looked significantly different than it does today. Several buildings including the Dow, DePree and the Maas conference center were not yet part of Hope’s landscape. Hope’s entire library collection was housed in Van Zoeren. It was during this time that Dawn Van Ark came to be an employee of Hope College. …
On Jan. 31, the Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series will feature two of Hope College’s English professors, David Cho and Heather Sellers. David Cho came to Hope in 2008. He was born and raised in Chicago and earned degrees from the University of Illinois, Purdue, and the University of Washington. His creative and scholarly works …
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A new resource is now available online to help you get a glimpse into Hope College’s past. In addition to print collections in the Joint Archives of Holland and Van Wylen, the library now has a digitized collection of many images of life at Hope in a database called Image Collections @ Hope College. This …
When teaching students about Internet research and how to think critically about sources that can be found freely online, we librarians may at times sound like broken records, giving repeated “warnings” followed by a list of tips on how to scrutinize and evaluate web content. Who wrote this piece? Is it credible? Why?Does it cite …
