Saints Trivia and intersession hours.

Our “New Orleans Saints: The Early Years, Part II” trivia quiz is now available.

You can also take the “New Orleans Saints: The Early Years, Part I” quiz from last week.

Our intersession hours for the holiday season until the beginning of Spring semester will be:

Monday	08:00 A.M. – 04:30 P.M.
Tuesday	08:00 A.M. – 06:00 P.M.
Wednesday-Friday	08:00 A.M. – 04:30 P.M.
Saturday-Sunday	Closed

The Louisiana and Special Collections Department, in addition to the rest of the library, will be closed from December 24th through January 3rd, 2010.  Normal hours will resume on January 11th, 2010.

Happy Halloween!

And as a special treat, a new quiz is now available, on the former Queen of the Macabre: Anne Rice!

Trivia Quizzes Moved to Wednesday.

Fear not, New Orleans and Louisiana trivia is still a weekly occurrence.

New quizzes will now be posted every Wednesday, instead of every Tuesday.

Keep those suggestions coming!

Shortened collection hours.

We apologize for the inconvenience, but due to staff and budgetary cuts at the university, the Louisiana and Special Collections Department will be operating under shortened hours for the Fall semester.

Major changes include closing two hours earlier Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and the termination of weekend hours.

The Louisiana Collection Reading Room will still be open until 8 p.m. on Tuesdays.

Regular Hours of Operation

Monday	08:00 A.M. – 06:00 P.M.
Tuesday	08:00 A.M. – 08:00 P.M.
Wednesday-Thursday	08:00 A.M. – 06:00 P.M.
Friday	08:00 A.M. – 04:30 P.M.
Saturday-Sunday	Closed

Trivia Archive Now Available

If you’ve missed any of our past trivia quizzes, have no fear, there is now a Trivia Archive available on the Louisiana and Special Collections page.

Test your knowledge about New Orleans literary figures such as Tennessee Williams or Truman Capote, or learn new and interesting facts about the Historic French Quarter and Hurricanes.

Now with trivia.

The staff of the Louisiana and Special Collections Department is happy to provide you with a fun new way to learn about Louisiana history, through the Louisiana and New Orleans weekly trivia quiz.

Every week we will select 5 trivia questions related to the history, culture, and political or literary figures of Louisiana and New Orleans.  Be sure to check back every Tuesday for more trivia!

Click here to launch our very first Louisiana and New Orleans Trivia Quiz in a new window.

Next week’s topic: Tennessee Williams.

Online Exhibits featuring materials from our Louisiana and Special Collections Department are now available.

Two new exhibits are available featuring materials from the Louisiana and Special Collections Department.  The first of these exhibits, The Early History of the Orleans Parish School Board, can also be viewed on the 4th floor of the Earl K. Long Library in the Louisiana Collection Reading Room.  The second exhibit, featuring the Correspondence of Marcus Bruce Christian, a local poet and author, is no longer on physical display, but will remain on the website for interested patrons, students, and faculty.

Spotlight on two newly processed collections.

The staff of the Louisiana and Special Collections Department is proud to present you with two newly processed manuscript collections, the Liongel G. Whitfield Collection, and the John C. Kelly and Michael J. Rosa Collection.

The Lionel G. Whitfield Collection contains the correspondence and personal papers of Mr. Whitfield, who served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.  The correspondence mostly consists of letters from Mr. Whitfield to his mother in New Orleans, between the years of 1950 and 1952.

The John C. Kelly and Michael J. Rosa Collection focuses on ephemera related to the New Orleans gay community during Mardi Gras.  Included in the collection are ball invitations, programs, and other assorted memorabilia from various carnival krewes between the years 1977 to 2006.

Expanded Hours

Beginning June 4th, the Louisiana and Special Collections Department will now be open an extra hour every weekday!

The Louisiana Collection Reading Room will now be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday-Thursday, and from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Friday. Saturday hours will remain the same, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

You can always verify the Louisiana and Special Collections Department hours of operation by visiting our webpage here, or by calling (504) 280-6544.

Louisiana Supreme Court Materials Digitization Project Update.

With generous contributions from select grants, the University of New Orleans has been given the opportunity to digitize select portions of the Louisiana Supreme Court documents. During this period, cases from 1861-1877 will be unavailable to researchers, but will soon be available in digital form following this brief period of inconvenience. We thank you for your understanding regarding this matter, and look forward to expanding our services and collections in this and many other ways in the future.