Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections
Festival International de Louisiane 2022 is the first Festival held in person since 2019, before the pandemic.
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections
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.
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections
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.
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections - 2023 Theses and Dissertations
2023 Theses and Dissertations have arrived!
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections – 125th Anniversary
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.
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections – Doris Broussard Bentley Collection
This week for Fun Fact Friday (#FFF), Special Collections is highlighting the Doris Broussard Bentley Collection.
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections – Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection
The Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection 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.
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections – Edwin L. Stephens Papers
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.
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections – John Berlinger Breaux
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.
Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections – Legacy Class Banners
In honor of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s 125th Anniversary, we are sharing some newly found class banners of the years 1923 and 1924!
These banners have been recently discovered in the stacks of the Louisiana Collection and have now been processed. We have four decades of banners starting at 1910 through 1945. We sadly did not have a class banner dating back to the start of the university in 1898 so we are sharing banners from 100 years ago in celebration of the university’s anniversary.
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