Bayou Bytes Blog

This Thursday, August 27, the Central Library will be welcoming Dr. Janet Allured. Dr. Allured is the director of the Women's Studies Program at McNeese University and she is one of the editors of Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times . Once again she will be joining us on Thursday, August 27th from 7-8:30 pm in the upstairs meeting room at the Central Library.

That the Archives Department of the McNeese Library has worked hard to digitize over 3,000 photographs of our area? The photographs, purchased or donated from a variety of generous sources, document McNeese, Lake Charles, and the Imperial Calcasieu region from 1890's to the present. To view this collection online, please follow this link: Historic Photographs of Southwest Louisiana Ryan St., ca. 1988 (top) Lake Charles lake front, 1938 (bottom) The McNeese Collection is part of a larger collection of digitized photographs that tell the history of our state. Organized by the State Library of Louisiana, the LOUISiana Digital Library contains photographs, maps, manuscript materials, books, oral histories, and more that document Louisiana's history and culture. To visit this collection, go to http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/index.php?institution=State%20Library%20Of%20Louisiana