Referencia Latina is a comprehensive database whose resources include over 100 multidisciplinary reference books, more than 100,000 images captioned in Spanish, and full-text from prominent Latin American newspapers and magazines.
Research Databases can be accessed using your ULID and password.
Questions? Ask a Librarian.
LGBT Studies in Video features documentaries, interviews, archival footage, and select feature films exploring LGBT history, gay culture and subcultures, civil rights, marriage equality, LGBT families, AIDS, transgender issues, religious perspectives on homosexuality, global comparative experiences, and other topics. Users can browse the collection by people, themes, and topics, and rich playlist functionality allows users to create, annotate, and organize clips. Permissions for in-class, on-campus, and remote-access viewing are included.
The trial lasts until May 3, 2015.
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).
The annual African American Literature Spoken Word & Read Out will take place Thursday, February 26, from 11:00 am - 1:00 pm 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.
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.
