This week we are celebrating Children’s Book Week.
Although we are a university library, the Louisiana Collection has many children’s books that can be perused in the Jefferson Caffery Reading Room.
Children's Book Week was established in 1919. It has become so popular that it now has two dedicated weeks a year. This year those weeks are May 2-8 and Nov. 7-13. The purpose is to encourage children to read.
Festival International de Louisiane 2022 is the first Festival held in person since 2019, before the pandemic.
Affectionately known as JAM, the Jazz Appreciation Month celebration was created by the National Museum of American History. This year, the celebration is exploring the combination of Afro-Caribbean music and jazz which has led to the formation of Latin jazz. This year’s poster features Cachao and was created by Francis Henry Cuadro.
National Poetry Month is a celebration of poetry that happens each April. It was started in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets as a way to increase awareness and appreciation of poetry and poets in the United States.
Did you know about poetry in the collections? There are several collections that contain original poetry written by people with an Acadiana connection.
2023 Theses and Dissertations have arrived!
Did you know that the University of Louisiana at Lafayette is celebrating our 125th anniversary this year? There will be an Academic Showcase on March 12th in the Student Union.
This week for Fun Fact Friday (#FFF), Special Collections is highlighting the Doris Broussard Bentley Collection.
The Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection (PDF) consists of business records of Edwin B. Ogden, who was active in the rice brokerage field. He had close connections with the Godchaux Family and Louisiana State Rice Milling Company. The collection was donated by Mrs. Edwin Ogden, Jr. Please note that the collection is currently being reprocessed. This involves looking back at the already processed collection and bringing it up to current standards of archival practice.
Stephens Hall was constructed in 1940 dedicated as the Stephens Memorial Library and was named after Dr. Edwin Lewis Stephens, UL Lafayette’s first president. The building was solely dedicated to functioning as a library, before the building of the Edith Garland Dupré Library in 1960, where today it is now one of the University’s computing centers.
The John B. Breaux Memorabilia Collection has just recently been reprocessed!
John Berlinger Breaux was born in Crowley in 1944. He graduated from the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) with a B.A. in 1964, and from Louisiana State University, Paul M. Herbert Law Center with a LL.B. in 1967.
