The library will be OPEN 24 HOURS for finals from 7:30 a.m. on Monday, April 24 through 4:30 p.m. on Friday, May 5.
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. – 11:45 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.
April 13 – 23, 2017
Thursday, April 13 | 7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Friday, April 14 – Monday, April 17 | CLOSED
Tuesday, April 18 – Thursday, April 20 | 7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Friday, April 21 | 7:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 22 | CLOSED
Sunday, April 23 | 2 p.m. – 11 p.m.
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 at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette is hosting the Ernest J. Gaines Summer Teaching Institute for the summer 2017 session. This institute offers an innovative package of professional development opportunities and experiences for classroom teachers and will be held from June 12-19, 2017. The Ernest J. Gaines Summer Teaching Institute is open to all K-12 educators in the Acadiana region.
Dupré Library has floor space and glass display cases available for exhibition purposes in the 1st floor Grand Hall. Exhibits are on display one month at a time, and reservations are available on a first come basis. Any material displayed in Dupré Library should be relevant to the University and its educational and philosophical mission. View the Exhibits Policy for more information.
The Ernest J. Gaines Center is pleased to invite you to the 2017 Black History Month Program, titled “Her Place, Her Space: Lasting Influences of Black Female Narration”. We are excited to work with Dr. Mona Lisa Saloy (Dillard University), Dr. Jo Davis-McElligatt (University of Louisiana at Lafayette), and the UL Lafayette chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS, Dr. Kiwana McClung, Advisor). The students of NOMAS were inspired by passages by The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (Ernest J.
Feb. 24 – March 1, 2017
Friday, Feb. 24 | 7:30 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 25 – Tuesday, Feb. 28 | CLOSED
Wednesday, March 1 | 7:30 a.m. – midnight
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 library is pleased to welcome two new assistant deans.
Blair Stapleton is the new Assistant Dean of Public Services. She is originally from Blairsville, Georgia, and holds a BA in Psychology from the University of West Georgia and an MLS from North Carolina Central University.
Sheryl Curry is the new Assistant Dean of Technical Services (retired). She has been acting Assistant Dean of Technical Services of Dupré Library since Jan. 2015, and previously served as the library's Web Librarian.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full-Text is a global bibliography of writings on music with over 1 million pages of full-text from more than 200 periodicals. Coverage includes articles, reviews, obituaries, editorials, correspondence, advertisements, and news.
Find it alongside other music databases.
We're pleased to announce this year's call for papers for the Annual Caffery Competition, which awards $500 for the best original scholarly paper using primary research materials from Special Collections, which includes the University Archives and Acadiana Manuscripts Collection, Louisiana Collection, Rare Book Collection, Ernest J. Gaines Center, Cajun and Creole Music Collection, Microforms, and U.S. Government Information.
On Wednesday, Jan. 18 from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m., the Ernest J. Gaines Center will host a book reading and discussion with esteemed writer, poet, and educator Crystal Wilkinson. Wilkinson is the 2016 recipient of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence for her novel Birds of Opulence, which is described as a "lush, lyrical take on slavery's legacy among women in the twentieth century." Wilkinson's other works include Blackberries, Blackberries and Water Street, which was a finalist for the 2003 Orange Prize for Fiction and the 2003 Hurston-Wright Legacy Award.
