“Vanguard” tells the story of brave Black women who fought not only for their own right to vote but for increased voting access for all.
Read and discuss this book and others in "Who Gets to Vote?"
For more information about the series, including how to participate, view Who Gets to Vote?.
Watch the livestream of each discussion on Dupré Library's YouTube channel.
Watch a preview of the film seies The U.S. and the Holocaust followed by a discussion with UL Lafayette professor Charles E. Richard.
Nov. 18 |1 p.m.
South Regional Library (Lafayette Public Library).
Register for no-cost transportation from Dupré Library to the event by Nov. 2.
Explore the challenges and triumphs of the women's suffrage movement in Louisiana by viewing the traveling exhibit, "Determined to Rise: The Woman’s Suffrage Movement in Louisiana" in the Grand Hallway from April 12 to 23, 2021.
Extended through Oct. 11, 2021.
See how Louisiana helped achieve victory in World War II—and how the war that changed the world forever changed Louisiana, too. Explore The National WWII Museum in New Orleans' traveling exhibit "The Pelican State Goes to War: Louisiana in World World II" May 3 through Aug. 27, 2021.
Spring '23 EDCI 407 & 411 created a display of the 100 Acre Wood Classroom collaboration project between the UL College of Education & Human Development and Moncus Park.
View the 100 Acre Wood Classroom display by the front doors all summer.
"Indulgences: a book of common images", by Allan L. Jones, is for view outside of the Jefferson Caffery Reading Room on the 3rd floor. Jones is a former UL Lafayette Professor and 2020 SPARK Lifetime Achievement Award winner. Come by and check out this wonderful book.
Visit the library Nov. 9 through Dec. 8 to view Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition from The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association that examines Americans’ responses to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s.
The "Becoming Woman" Exhibit is now on display in the Jefferson Caffrey Reading Room and in the main hallway of the first floor of Dupré Library. This exhibit depicts the lives of women and how they established themselves through family, religion, education, and sense of self from the 1910s to the 1930s in a small, southern town of Louisiana.
Check out these historic photographs deriving from the Barnett Studio from Crowley, Louisiana.
Women's History Month celebrates ALL women, even the notorious ones. Women are courageous, resilient, intelligent, creative and most of all inspirational. Check out the display cases on the 1st floor which showcase some books inspired by and written about women. Some notable names include: Vera Atkins, a secret agent during WWII; Norma Wallace, a New Orleans madam; and Sophia Amoruso, founder and CEO of Nasty Girl.
Special Collections has updated exhibits for the COLA 100 year anniversary. This month, we are highlighting the Department of Modern Languages. This exhibit includes theses, dissertations, faculty publications, and awards received by prominent faculty.
Exhibits are located in the Jefferson Caffery Reading Room on the 3rd floor and the 1st floor Main Stairwell. Stop by and check these out today!
