Cajun & Creole Music Collection
The Cajun & Creole Music Collection is located on the 3rd floor within the Ernest J. Gaines Center and visits are by appointment only this semester.
Contact Cajun & Creole Music Collection for more info.
The Cajun & Creole Music Collection is located on the 3rd floor within the Ernest J. Gaines Center and visits are by appointment only this semester.
Contact Cajun & Creole Music Collection for more info.
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).
Event canceled due to regional flooding.
On Monday, August 15th, first-year students are invited to chill in the air conditioning of the library for Puppies & Popsicles from 2:00 - 3:30. Meet a Dupré librarian, have a popsicle, and snuggle a certified therapy dog from Pet Partners of Acadiana.
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.
Email C00518470@louisiana.edu for questions.

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
Film screening of "A Lesson before Dying" (6:30 South Regional Library)
Oct. 1
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.