Event: Her Space, Her Place: Lasting Influences of Black Female Narration

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.

Mardi Gras Holiday Library Hours

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.

Library Welcomes New Assistant Deans

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.

New Database: RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full-Text

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.

Research Databases can be accessed using your ULID and password.

Questions? Ask a Librarian.

Annual Caffery Competition: Call for Student Papers

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.

Event: Book Reading and Discussion With Author Crystal Wilkinson

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.

Writing Lab Library Hours

Tutors will be in the library during evening hours this semester to help students with their writing projects and papers.

Mondays – Thursday | 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.

They will be at a table in the Reference Area on the 1st floor.

Tutors help students at any stage of the writing process. Visit the Writing Lab for more information on their services.

Spring Semester Library Hours

Jan. 11 – April 23, 2017

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.

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.

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