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The library student organization is hosting a costume contest which ends today! Stop by with your costume, allow us to take a picture, and win something cool! Enjoy beautiful fall day and read up on the history of Halloween!

The College and Lutheran Church Archives staff have been busy, not just organizing and preserving our history, but making much of it digitally available. You’ll find all kinds of things online – from historic photos to civil war-era letters to posters from World War I to photos submitted for the annual Center for International and…

October is American Archives Month so visit the College and Lutheran Church Archives and take a tour. Tours will feature historical Gustavus treasures and awesome artifacts not usually on public display. Find out what the archives is all about and what it has to offer you.  The archives is located on the library’s top floor, directly above…

Happy Open Access Week! We’re celebrating the movement to make more knowledge free to all. Philosopher and activist Peter Suber (who has recently written a book on the topic) has defined open access as literature that is “digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.” He has written a very brief…

Friday, Oct. 19:  8:00 am – 4:45 pm; Saturday, Oct. 20:  10:00 am – 5:00 pm; Sunday, Oct. 21: Noon-6:00 pm; Monday, Oct. 22:  8:00 am – 4:45 pm; Tuesday, Oct. 23:  8:00 am – 1:00 am. 

We are delighted to host two public events on Monday, October 8th,  focused on the contributions women writers have made to Scandinavian crime fiction. At 4:00 pm in Confer 127, Dr. Kerstin Bergman of Lund University will present a lecture, “The Women Strike Back: The Rise of Women Crime Writers in Sweden, 1997-2012.” Bergman is…

Publications written or edited by faculty, staff, and friends of the Gustavus community and owned by the library have been compiled into a convenient list that can be found on the library’s webpage.

We’re excited to host four mystery writers – Helen Tursten and Kristina Ohlsson from Sweden, Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis from Denmark – and a noted Swedish critic, Dr. Kerstin Bergman of Lund University, from October 8 – 10 (the week after the Nobel Conference). In addition to meeting with classes, our visitors will be…

Celebrate Banned Books Week, September 30 through October 6 by participating in Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library’s Virtual Read Out. You are invited to record a short video reading from a banned or challenged book and post the YouTube link to the Library’s Facebook page. 2012 marks the 30th year of Banned Books Week. In that…

You can now find the music scores on the third floor of the library located near the music book collection. The Music Library that was in the Fine Arts Building was closed in June in consultation with the Music Department.  We worked out a plan to integrate music library collections into the main library, and…