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Poetry and Music: the Cajun & Creole connection

Bring your lunch and join Louisiana poet laureate Dr. Jack Bedell for a FREE hands on poetry workshop featuring material from Dupré Library's Cajun and Creole Music Collection (CCMC).

Reserve your spot at bit.ly/clubdupre

**This program is funded under a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. The opinions expressed in this program do not necessarily represent the views of either the Louisiana Endowment for Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.**

Annual Caffery Competition: Submission Deadline Feb 28

The annual Caffery Competition recognizes outstanding scholarly research utilizing primary source materials held in Special Collections.

Students entering an original research paper by the Feb. 28, 2019 deadline are eligible to the win the $500 Jefferson Caffery Research Award.

For more info, view the Annual Caffery Competition Guide.

Mardi Gras Holiday Library Hours

March 1 – 5, 2019

Friday, March 1 | 7:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 2 – Tuesday, March 5 | 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.

Game Night

New games have been added to our Game Collection and we are ready for YOU to join us for fun night of games and prizes!!! Play our newest games: Giant Uno, Corn Hole, Bingo, Balloon Tennis, Prize Pong and Mini Golf.

Event: Lecture of Dr. Emma Wakefield-Paillett, First Black Female Doctor in Iberia Parish

The Ernest J. Gaines Center would like to invite you to hear Dr. Phebe Archon Hayes deliver a lecture on Dr. Emma Wakefield Pailett, the first female Black doctor in Iberia Parish. Dr. Hayes’s lecture will be on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Gaines Center Hallway, on the 3rd floor.

Lecture of Dr. Emma Wakefield-Paillett, first Black Female doctor in Iberia Parish

The Ernest J. Gaines Center would like to invite you to hear Dr. Phebe Archon Hayes deliver a lecture on Dr. Emma Wakefield Pailett, the first female Black doctor in Iberia Parish. Dr. Hayes’s lecture will be at 5:30 pm in Gaines Center Hallway, on the 3rd floor of the Edith Garland Dupré Library. Dr. Hayes is the president of the Iberia African American Historical Society. She also served the University of Louisiana at Lafayette: first as a professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and as Dean of the College of General Studies. Dr.

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