Special Collections is proud to host the exhibit “Sharing the Sweet Life: 100 Years at the Chatsworth Sugar Plantation” in the Jefferson Caffery Reading Room through the month of September. The exhibit is presented by the LSU Rural Life Museum.
Sept. 4 – 7, 2015
Friday, Sept.4 | 7:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 5 | 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 6 | 2 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 7 | 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.
On Thursday, Sept. 3, the library will host a graduate skills research workshop for graduate assistants who need help planning the research component of their freshman classes, or whose own research skills could use a brush up.
Topics covered will include (but are not limited to) database searching, library website navigation, WorldCat, plagiarism and citation management.
The workshop will be held in room 141 on the 1st floor at 4 p.m..
Tutors from the UL Writing Lab will once again be in the library this semester to help Ragin' Cajun students become better writers.
Monday – Thursday | 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Tutors will be at a table in the Reference Area on the 1st floor.
Aug. 24 – Dec. 11, 2015
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.
The library will have extended hours during the Office of First Year Experience's Cajun Connection.
Aug. 20 – 23, 2015
Thursday, Aug. 20 | 7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 21 | 7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 22 – Sunday, Aug. 23 | 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.
On Saturday, Aug. 8, ProQuest will be upgrading its systems infrastructure to improve performance, security, and overall reliability of its products. The system maintenance window is scheduled to begin at 9 p.m. and will last for eight (8) hours.
During the maintenance window, ProQuest databases will be unavailable to researchers. Affected databases at Dupré Library include ABI/INFORM, Dissertations & Theses A&I, Nursing & Allied Health Source, Hoover's Company Profiles, and International Index to Music Periodicals Full-Text.
Aug. 1 – 23, 2015
Monday – Thursday | 7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Friday | 7:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Saturday – Sunday | CLOSED
Cajun Connection | Aug. 20 & Aug. 21 | Open until 5 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.
In Jan. 2015, the Special Collections department at the library received a Student Technology Enhancement Program (STEP) grant to digitize the University’s yearbooks, providing access to over a century of the University’s fascinating past online. LYRASIS Digitization Collaborative performed the scans, and Internet Archive now hosts the completed collection in their online digital archive. Anyone can now access the online yearbook collection.
July 2 – 5, 2015
Thursday, July 2 | 7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Friday, July 3 – Saturday, July 4 | CLOSED
Sunday, July 5 | 2 p.m. – 6 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.
