On Saturday, Feb. 28, ProQuest will be upgrading its systems infrastructure to improve performance, security and reliability of its products. During that time, ProQuest resources will not be available to researchers. Maintenance is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. and last until 2 p.m.
The deadline to submit a paper for consideration in the annual Caffery Competition is coming up next Thursday, March 5. The Caffery Competition recognizes the most outstanding research paper using primary source materials held in the 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.
The annual African American Literature Spoken Word & Read Out will take place Thursday, Feb. 26, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Student Union on the campus of UL Lafayette. The event is sponsored by the Ernest J. Gaines Center and will feature PowerfUL Poets, a spoken word group that performs on campus and around the community. All participants are invited to read a poem or passage from the works of their favorite African American writers at the event, which will be held near the cafeteria, in the space by the new bookstore.
Jazz trumpeter and composer Irvin Mayfield will bring his quintet from New Orleans to perform selections from Dirt, Dust and Trees—A Tribute to Literary Legend Ernest Gaines, at UL Lafayette on Feb. 24, 2015. When Mayfield premiered this multi-movement work in 2012 with his New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, he commented on Gaines’s work saying, “His art is words and mine is music. This is the work that binds two artists together.”
Need help finding scholarly sources? Having trouble structuring a research paper?
Make plans to attend the Research Writing Workshop, a collaborative workshop hosted by the Writing Lab and Dupré Library, next Monday, Feb. 23, from 4:30-5:30 in the library, room 141 (the computer classroom on the 1st floor).
Feb. 13 – 18, 2015
Friday, Feb. 13 | 7:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 14 – Tuesday, Feb. 17 | CLOSED
Wednesday, Feb. 18 | 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.
On Wednesday, Feb. 11, from 7 a.m. until around 11 a.m., online interlibrary loan services will not be available due to scheduled server downtime.
MEDCOM provides access to more than 250 streaming videos for students and professionals in nursing and allied health fields. Content includes basic clinical skills; pediatric, obstetrical, and neonatal nursing; anatomy and physiology; infection control, and more.
The trial lasts until March 6.
Research Databases can be accessed using your ULID and password.
Questions? Ask a Librarian.
A new collection of eBooks for engineering students and faculty is now availalbe. Momentum Press Digital Library is a growing collection of eBooks that includes titles in industrial, mechanical, chemical, civil and environmental engineering, and material science. All eBooks are downloadable, and faculty can easily embed them in their Moodle pages.
Off-campus access to online library resources, such as databases and journals, may be interrupted temporarily on Wednesday, Feb. 4, from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. while servers undergo maintenance.
