Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections
Today, in we are excited to bring you another new collection we have recently processed, the Collection 522 - Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum Photograph Collection.
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections
This week, we are happy to announce the acquisition of another new collection, Collection 529, the Nehrbass Architecture Collection.
Summer Intersession Library Hours
May 6 – June 4, 2023
Monday – Thursday | 7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Friday | 7:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Saturday – Sunday | CLOSED
Memorial Day | Monday, May 29 | CLOSED
All public service departments, including the Circulation/Reserve Desk, Interlibrary Loan, Reference Desk/Chat, Reference Online Center (ROC) Lab, and STEP Labs, close 15 minutes before the building closes.
2023 Caffery Award Winner
Dupré Library and Special Collections honors Samantha Schexnayder as this year's winner of the Jefferson Caffery Research Award. Her paper was entitled "The Changing Effects of 1940s Masculinity on the Expression of Emotion in the Writings of American Servicemen in World War II."
The Caffery Competition provides an award of $500.00 to recognize outstanding scholarly research utilizing primary source materials held in Special Collections of Dupré Library.
Event: Puppies & Popcorn
The puppies are back!
Join us on Wednesday, May 3rd for some puppy love with Pet Partners of Acadiana at 1 p.m. followed by popcorn at 2 p.m.
Digital Exhibit: The Freedom Activist Archive
Special Collections has posted a digital exhibit on The Freedom Activist Archive.
The archive, created by Dr. Delicia Daniels through research in the Louisiana Collection, establishes a key aspect of African American Culture currently underdeveloped in government archives by extending and altering the way we engage the narratives of “runaway slaves.”
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections
Today, we are going to look at several programs and press dossiers from past festivals.
Festival International de Louisiane has been held every year since 1987. In the first year, the festival was held over the Fourth of July weekend, but by the following year had moved to its current weekend, the last weekend of April.
The photographs attached to this post show some of the programs housed in the Reading Room from past years.
Dupré Digest Spring 2023 Out Now
The latest issue of Dupré Digest was emailed to subscribers on Tuesday, April 25.
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Library Open 24 Hours for Finals
The library will be OPEN 24 HOURS starting at 7 a.m. Monday, April 24 until 4:30 p.m. May 5 for the week before and the week of finals.
All public service departments, including the Circulation/Reserve Desk, Interlibrary Loan, Reference Desk/Chat, Reference Online Center (ROC) Lab, and STEP Labs, close at their regular hours:
Monday – Thursday | 7:30 a.m. – 10:45 p.m.
Friday | 7:30 a.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Saturday | 10 a.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Sunday | 2 p.m. – 10:45 p.m.
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections
This week, we are excited to share a collection with you that we have recently reprocessed. This collection is Collection 260A, The Glenn Conrad Personal Papers.
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