What's new @ The Langston Hughes
Memorial Library
Hughes Library is pleased to announce that selected Library databases are now available from home or from any
Internet connection. Databases like Lexis/Nexus, EBSCO, JSTOR and others are available with more being added soon.
Current students with a Lion Card ID will be able to use their ID number to use these full text databases.
Why use the library?
With over one billion Web pages you couldn't tell it, but very few substantive
materials are on the Internet for free. Interesting reading:
10 Reasons Why the Internet
Is No Substitute for a Library
By Mark Y. Herring
Scholarly Communication in Transition:
Evidence for the Rise of a Two-Tier System
By Dangzhi Zhao
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Interlibrary Loan can be a student's best friend.
Interlibrary loan can find nearly any book and put it in your hands. Everyday
Bonnie Horn, the ILL magician, does what some consider is impossible, she provides
students books that are not in our library, out-of-print and/or hard to find. She can provide
books on nearly any topic. Interlibrary loan is a good student's best friend.
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Library Staff News.
Read more about library faculty and staff.
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News of Major Library Renovation
In August 2006, Faculty and Staff of the Langston Hughes Memorial Library were presented
with the "Preliminary Draft Program" for major renovations to the Langston Hughes Memorial
Library building. The Architects/Planners of the project, the firm of Faridy Veisz Fraytak
of Trenton, N.J., presented a building renovation that adds computers, classrooms, new space
for the Academic Technology Department, but adds no additional square foot to the present building.
New services @ the Library!
New Service, New Technology!
The Library has installed 10 DVD/CD/MP3 Viewing and Listening Stations for students
and faculty to use. These monitors are adjacent to the circulation desk on the 2nd floor (main floor) and will
be available for those who need to view documentaries or listen to music. These stations also have a USB port
that allows use of the most modern technologies.
PILOT is coming, PILOT is coming!
A new day is dawning! Lincoln University is the newest member of the Keystone Library Network,
and, as a member, will soon be able to offer a library catalog that shows the library holdings of
more than 15 libraries including West Chester, Cheyney, Millersville and the State Library. Students
will be able to borrow books from these libraries with a click of a mouse.
The Library has been awarded a grant by
The American Library Association (ALA)
and Nextbook for participation in the Let's
Talk About It: Jewish Literature project. This project will bring a series
of five scholar-led discussion sessions to the library.
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Langston Hughes, 1929
The Library has many books on Lincoln University Alumni, Langston Hughes.
Hughes first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, was published by Alfred A.
Knopf in 1926. He finished his college education at Lincoln University in
Pennsylvania three years later.
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Lincoln Exhibit at Library
The Langston Hughes Memorial Library has been selected as one of 60 libraries
to host a traveling exhibition commemorating the bicentennial of Abraham
Lincoln. Titled "Forever
Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation, Tour II," the
exhibition will arrive at Lincoln University in October 2008.