Belk Library

Reconfigured floor layouts to accommodate the Center for Writing Excellence and a Starbucks coffee machine are among the features that librarians hope will make the building even more attractive for studying and research.

Conor Grennan spoke Tuesday to a crowded Alumni Gym about his efforts to reunite trafficked children with their parents in Nepal following a civil war that tore many families apart.

Dianne Ford co-authored an article with librarian Nancy Gibbs from Duke University for the September 2013 edition of Serials Review.

The author of "Little Princes" visits Elon University for a 7:30 p.m. talk about his New York Times bestselling book and his nonprofit's efforts to reunite children separated from their families by human traffickers during Nepal's civil war.

Elon University students, faculty and staff visited the center on the first floor of Belk Library to learn more about support and services available to the campus community.

A reception from 4:30-6 p.m. will showcase services and opportunities for students, faculty and staff to improve writing as part of the university's Writing Excellence Initiative. Ice cream and fruit will be served.

From new dorms to additional dining options, Elon students will find a host of enhancements and expansions when they return to campus this fall.

Belk Library Archives and Special Collections has recently made two more significant Elon publications available online—the Student Handbook and the Bulletin of Elon College, Special Series.

Elon's historic video recordings are being digitized by Archives and Special Collections at Belk Library.

Associate Professor Anthony Hatcher published a biographical essay on crime noir author James Ross, a critically acclaimed but little known North Carolina writer who attended Elon for a year in the 1930s.