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Ouachita's La Fuerza And Riley-Hickingbotham Library Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, Ouachita News Bureau

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National Hispanic Heritage Month, held Sept. 15-Oct. 15 annually, honors Hispanic and Latin Americans’ histories, cultures and contributions in the United States. This year’s campus-wide celebration kicked off with a luncheon Wednesday, Sept. 15 at 11 a.m. at Ouachita Commons, hosted by Ouachita’s Office of Multicultural Student Programs and La Fuerza, Ouachita’s Latino student organization. La Fuerza’s Fiesta Mesa is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 24, at noon in Evans Student Center, followed by Tiger Serve Day on Saturday, Sept. 25.

Telling Your Covid Story: A Message From The University Archivist, Lisa Speer, Ouachita News Bureau

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72 weeks. 504 days. 12,096 hours. The amount of time since COVID-19 quickly and dramatically changed life at Ouachita in the spring semester of 2021. We all have very clear memories of the week ending March 13.

Ouachita's Riley-Hickingbotham Library Receives Copy Of Arkansas' Porter Fund Literary Prize Collection, Mandy Halbert, Ouachita News Bureau

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Ouachita Baptist University’s Riley-Hickingbotham Library is among five Arkansas universities, as well as only one of two private libraries, chosen to receive a copy of the Porter Fund Collection, a curation of works by award-winning Arkansas writers. The collection will be available for Ouachita students, faculty and staff to read virtually, and an exhibition is to be held in the spring of 2021.

The Porter Fund Collection is the curation of works by Arkansas writers who have received the Porter Fund Literary Prize, an award presented annually to a native writer or poet who has accomplished a substantial and impressive …

Ouachita Riley-Hickingbotham Library's Special Collections Earns National Award, Trennis Henderson

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The Arkansas Baptist History Collection of Ouachita Baptist University’s Riley-Hickingbotham Library Archives and Special Collections has been honored with the Baptist History and Heritage Society’s 2017 Davis C. Woolley Award for Outstanding Achievement in Assessing and Preserving Baptist History.

The national award honors the work of Dr. Wendy Richter, Ouachita professor and archivist, and her staff who coordinated the Special Collections project. The award was announced recently at the annual conference of the Baptist History and Heritage Society, hosted by First Baptist Church of Augusta, Ga., in partnership with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Georgia.

“It is indeed an honor …

Ouachita Special Collections Opening Honors Hickey, Holley And Knight, Trennis Henderson, Rachel Gaddis

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Obu's Riley-Hickingbotham Library To Host World War 1 Exhibit Nov. 23-Dec. 18, Ouachita News Bureau

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"The Great War: Arkansas in World War 1," a traveling exhibit chronicling Arkansas' role in World War 1 at home and on the battlefields, will be displayed in Riley-Hickingbotham Library on the campus of Ouachita Baptist University from Nov. 23 through Dec. 18. The exhibit will be on display in the library's main floor lobby during regular hours of operation except school holidays.