Off-campus access to online library resources, such as databases and journals, will be interrupted temporarily tonight, Tuesday, March 12, from approximately 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. while servers undergo maintenance.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
Poetry, spoken word, mime or whatever your heart desires. Watch and/or participate as talents are put on display. Drop in or reserve your spot.
***King Cake will be provided***
Wednesday, Feb. 27 | 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
1st Floor, Reference Area
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.
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.
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.
Join Kaitlynn Fenley of Cultured Guru to learn about gut microbiome health, plant based eating, fermented foods, probiotics and more on Feb. 16 at 10:30 a.m. to noon.
Dupré Open Mic is back. Poetry, spoken word, mime or whatever your heart desires. Watch and/or participate as talents are put on display. Drop in or reserve your spot.
Wednesday, Jan. 30 | 4 p.m.
Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence winner and author of the dynamic and acclaimed book, A Lucky Man, Jamel Brinkley will be at the Ernest J. Gaines Center for a book talk on Wednesday, Jan. 23 at 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The Los Angels Review of Books states that Brinkley" offers visions of manhood and masculinity that demonstrate candor without false intensity, desire without ownership.
Edith Garland Dupré Library has launched its first institutional repository for the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
An institutional repository is an online platform that enables/provides access to materials created by an institution’s students, faculty, and staff. The intention of the repository is to showcase works from the University community, as well as digital collections from Special Collections.
Jan. 16 – May 10, 2019
Monday – Thursday | 7:30 a.m. – midnight
Friday | 7:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Saturday | 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Sunday | 2 p.m. – 11 p.m.
