Special Collections now has a live library chat.
It is designed for users to interact in real time with us and ask questions.
The chat is available on the Special Collections' homepage and all of its subpages.
We hope to hear from you.
Welcome Cajuns of 2021! Join us Aug. 14 at 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. for Pups & Popsicles, with registered therapy dogs from Pet Partners of Acadiana and gourmet popsicles from Pops and Rockets.
Special Collections has posted a digital exhibit of the 1998 College of Education Academic Showcase.
Spearheaded by Dr. Edmond Dugas, Professor Emeritus of Kinesiology, this project chronicles the programs put on by the College of Education to commemorate the University’s 100-year history, leading up to the University’s Centennial Celebration. Two sections, in particular, are paid close attention: a collection of 41 videos, and a Book of Letters.
The library replaced its library catalog with a new system on Aug. 2. The modern interface and search functionality is user-friendly and operates similarly to a Google search.
Access the new catalog at Search the Dupré Library Catalog.
Faculty who have permalinks or URLs to the previous catalog in Moodle or elsewhere will need to update the links. For help, refer to the Creating a Permalink Guide.
On July 14, OCLC launched a restyle of the WorldCat FirstSearch interface. According to OCLC, these changes were made in response to requests from the FirstSearch community for a more contemporary interface that meets the expectations of today’s searchers. The changes will display automatically and will not affect functionality, navigation or website structure.
From the University of Louisiana at Lafayette:
Planning is underway for the establishment of the Kathleen Babineaux Blanco Public Policy Center at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Blanco is a UL Lafayette alumna and the only woman to serve as Louisiana governor. The policy center and archive will house Blanco’s gubernatorial papers. It also will contribute interdisciplinary, independent research to a host of public policy areas, including criminal justice reform, poverty and economic opportunity, governmental ethics, and education.
$500 Award for the best scholarly paper using primary research materials from the Special Collections at Dupré Library.
Deadline for Submission: Feb. 28, 2019
Winner will be Announced: May 2019
More information can be found on the Caffery Competition Guide.
Project MUSE’s newly redesigned website is now live. With a scholar-informed design and enhanced technological infrastructure, the new website offers a more robust user experience for all of the scholarship on MUSE, with an elegantly intuitive interface and a suite of tools focused on the researcher.
As of May 2018, EBSCO has retired their EBSCO eBooks mobile app. EBSCO now recommends using the Bluefire Reader app or any other app supported by Adobe Digital Editions. View these instructions on how to install the free Bluefire Reader app on your mobile device to download and read eBooks.
