The Cajun & Creole Music Collection, along with Cajun & Creole Music Collection librarian Sandy Himel, are featured in the Jan./Feb. 2023 issue of American Libraries – The Magazine of the American Library Association.
Photos from the Cajun & Creole Music Collection were used in the LPB documentary, “Why Louisiana Ain’t Mississippi… or Any Place Else.”
UL Lafayette and Special Collections are listed in the film credits. The two-part documentary aired on Dec. 11 and 12, 2022.
Photo credit: LPB
The UL Lafayette Office of Communications and Marketing received a 2019-2020 CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education) District IV Accolades Silver Award for the design of the new Cajun and Creole Music Collection Brochure (PDF).
Delta Sigma Pi is having a canned food drive Feb. 1-15. Drop off your canned good at the library or one of the other donation locations.
Don't forget to write your name and C# on the donations for credit.
The mission of the Catalog Department is to support the teaching, research, and service mission of Dupré Library and the University by providing bibliographic access to the collections housed in the library and its branches. To accomplish this goal, the department strives to:
The Ernest J. Gaines Center, in conjunction with the Lafayette Public Library, Friends of the Humanities, and the Deep South Festival of Writers, is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the publication of Gaines's first novel. Events will occur throughout the fall semester at various locations.
Sep. 17
Film screening of "An Obsession of Mine" and "The Sky is Gray" (6:30 South Regional Library)
Sept. 24
Attend the U.S. Postal Service's Ernest J. Gaines Forever Stamp first-day-of-issue dedication ceremony. The event will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 23, in the Atchafalaya Ballroom in the Student Union at 620 McKinley St.
Registration has ended. This indoor event is open to the public. Paid parking is located in the Girard Park Circle garage. Email questions to events@louisiana.edu.
The library replaced its library catalog with a new system on Aug. 2. The modern interface and search functionality is user-friendly and operates similarly to a Google search.
Access the new catalog at Search the Dupré Library Catalog.
Faculty who have permalinks or URLs to the previous catalog in Moodle or elsewhere will need to update the links. For help, refer to the Creating a Permalink Guide.
Special Collections now has a live library chat.
It is designed for users to interact in real time with us and ask questions.
The chat is available on the Special Collections' homepage and all of its subpages.
We hope to hear from you.
