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Event: Family First - Finding and Preserving Your Family History

To celebrate National Family History Month, the library is hosting "Family First: Finding and Preserving Your Family History". Topics covered include Genealogy 101, using a print genealogy collection, an overview of genealogy websites (laptops recommended), digital preservation basics, and scanning images and documents. Participants are invited to bring up to five items to digitize.

Tuesday, Oct. 24 | 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Jefferson Caffery Reading Room | 3rd Floor

IEEE Xplore Digital Library Scheduled Maintenance

IEEE Xplore Digital Library will be unavailable on Friday, Oct. 20, from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. as it undergoes scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Family First: Finding and Preserving Your Family History

To celebrate National Family History Month, Dupré Library is hosting Family First: Finding and Preserving Your Family History. Topics covered include Genealogy 101, using a print genealogy collection, an overview of genealogy websites (laptops recommended), digital preservation basics, and scanning images and documents. Participants are invited to bring up to five items to digitize.

Fall Break Library Hours

Oct. 4 – 8, 2017

Wednesday, Oct. 4 – Thursday, Oct. 5 | 7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 6 | 7:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 7 | 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 8 | 2 p.m. – 9 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.

Event: 5th Annual Gaines Lecture Series

Author, lecturer, creative writer, and Ernest J. Gaines Scholar, Dr. Herman Beavers (Africana Studies and English) is the honored speaker for the 5th annual Ernest J. Gaines Lecture. The lecture will be held on Oct. 12 in the Gaines Center Hallway, which is located on the 3rd floor at 11 a.m.

Hurricane Harvey Relief Drive

Dupré Library and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Student Government Association are partnering to collect non-perishable food items for a Hurricane Harvey relief drive. Desired items include canned vegetables and fruit, canned meats, canned soups and stews, canned beans, cereal, Ensure and Pediasure, pasta, peanut butter, protein and granola bars, rice, and shelf-stable milk.

Mentoring Matters Library Hours

Tutors from the UL Lafayette Department of Biology's Mentoring Matters program will be in the 1st floor Reference Area this semester to assist students.

Monday – Tuesday | 4 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Wednesday | 5 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Thursday | 4 p.m. – 9 p.m.

Writing Lab Library Hours

Tutors from the UL Lafayette Writing Lab will be in the library this semester.

Monday – Thursday | 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.

The tutoring station is located near the mural in the 1st floor Reference Area.

Writing Lab tutors help students, faculty, and staff, including English language learners, at any stage of the writing process. More about their services can be found at the Writing Lab.

Labor Day Library Hours

Sept. 1 – 4, 2017

Friday, Sept. 1 | 7:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Saturday, Sept.2 | 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 3 | 2 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 4 | CLOSED

Special Collections | Labor Day Weekend | 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.

Event: Scantrons, Sweets & the Sillies

Join Dupré Library, SGA, and Delta Nu Delta (UL Lafayette's tabletop games club) for food, fun and games.

SGA will be giving away scantrons and sweets. Make new friends while playing the games provided by Delta Nu Delta or bring your own game.

Tuesday, Aug. 22 | 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

University of Louisiana at Lafayette