Microsoft Office 2013 Now Available
All computers in the STEP and ROC labs have been updated to include Microsoft Office 2013 applications, including Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
Summer Semester Library Hours
June 9 – Aug.1, 2014
Monday – Thursday | 7:30 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Friday | 7:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Saturday | 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Sunday | 2 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Independence Day | July 4 | CLOSED
Special Collections will be closed the 4th of July weekend.
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.
Database Trial: Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
HaPI, Health and Psychosocial Instruments, is a comprehensive, bibliographic database featuring journal records covering topics in the health and psychosocial sciences. It also includes information on interview schedules, coding schemes, tests and projective techniques. This trial is available until June 30.
Research Databases can be accessed using your ULID and password.
Questions? Ask a Librarian.
Vidrine & Kiesel Preserve Evangeline Parish History in New Book
Jane Vidrine and Jean Kiesel’s new book, Evangeline Parish, has just been published by Arcadia Publishing as part of their Images of America series. The book is a collection of historic photographs of people, places and events from the history of Evangeline Parish.
Exhibit: University Commencement
The current exhibit in the front entrance and 1st floor hallway celebrates the University's commencement throughout the years. The exhibit features photographs, news clippings, yearbooks, and other memorabilia.
Stop by to enjoy this historical view of the University. Look in the cases at the front entrance to see a program from the Closing Exercises in 1902, a photograph of the first graduating class in 1903 and colorful views of the recent ceremonies.
The exhibit was curated by Sheryl Curry. It will remain on display through the end of May.
Event: Poetry Reading by Darrell Bourque
Darrell Bourque will read from his newest work, If You Abandon Me, Comment Je Vas Faire: An Amédé Ardoin Songbook. Bourque explores the life of Creole musician Amédé Ardoin (1898-1942) in this haunting collection of inverted sonnets. Using imagination and historical research, Bourque delves into Ardoin, an influential but enigmatic artist. This chapbook is the first installment of The Louisiana Series of Cajun and Creole Poetry (La Série de Louisiane de Poésie des Acadiens et Créoles) and is published by Yellow Flag Press.
Thursday, May 15 | 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Spring Intersession Library Hours
May 10 – June 8, 2014
Monday – Thursday | 7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Friday | 7:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Saturday – Sunday | CLOSED
Memorial Day | May 26 | 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: Therapy Dogs at Library for Finals
Certified therapy dogs will be visiting to help students de-stress during the busiest time of the semester.
Wednesday, May 7 | 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
2014 Caffery Award Winner
Tim Landry has been named the winner of the 2014 Jefferson Caffery Research Award. He authored “Conservative Aristocrat and Assertive Ambassador: Jefferson Caffery at the Headwaters of American Involvement in Vietnam, 1944-1947.”
Tim is a history graduate student.
View Caffery Competition to learn more about the annual Jefferson Caffery Research Award.
Exhibit: Lap Desks
The current exhibit in the Main Hall features lap desks from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, selections from a large collection donated to Dupré Library by George Newton, a UL Lafayette alumnus.
Long before the invention of laptop computers, smart phones and the like, our ancestors used their own portable writing boxes to compose and store their correspondence and other important documents.
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