Dupré Library

Jeffery Renard Allen, winner of the 2010 Ernest J Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, will give a reading at the University of Louisiana. The event, presented by the university’s Ernest J. Gaines Center, will take place Monday, January 25, at 1:00 pm, in the Louisiana Room of the Edith Garland Dupré Library.

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press will host a Holiday Book Sale on Tuesday, December 15 from 5pm to 7pm at the UL Alumni Center.

Lafayette, LA – The Ernest J Gaines Center at UL will present the première of “An Obsession of Mine”: The Legacy of Ernest J. Gaines on Nov. 15, 2009, at a reception from 2 to 4 p.m. at Edith Garland Dupré Library.

There will be a book signing with Author Ernest Gaines for the new coffee table book "This Louisiana Thing That Drives Me: The Legacy of Ernest J. Gaines"

On Nov. 8, UL's Archives of Cajun and Creole Folklore and the Acadiana Center for Film and Media will host a workshop on home movie preservation.

Dr. Charles Triche, Director of Libraries at UL, talks about Dupré Library and how he, his staff and Martin Hall have established the strongest electronic resource collection in the state of Louisiana.

Ernest J. Gaines became writer-in-residence at UL in 1981, now his work is being preserved by a new center in Dupré Library.

Dupré Library hosts one of the best-kept secrets on the UL Campus: a rapidly growing UL press and internationally respected research center.