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Welcome, Dr. Sullivan!

Published on: Thursday, February 14th, 2013

We at UST Libraries are excited to welcome our President-Elect and share with her our tradition as ”the intellectual and technological crossroads of information resources, teaching, and learning at UST.” 

To get started, here are some highlights we hope Dr. Sullivan will find helpful and interesting as she transitions into her new position (and that we thought you library-lovers out there might like to check out, too!):

Our Newly-Designed Website and Online ResourcesNew site screenshot

Providing easy-to-use mini research portals to through our Google-like Summon search engine, catalog, research Subject Guides, and more.  Read more about it here.

Great Scholarship

USTRO

UST Research Online, our online reseach repository, is a wonderful place to familiarize yourself with the work being done by faculty and students

Virtual Tours and Histories of  St Thomasarchive_photos 

University Archives Photograph Collection contains a fascinating array of images related to the school’s history

Historic Walking Tour of the Saint Paul campus is a great way to get oriented with the history of the campus – can you find the pictures of Lake Mennith?

Written Histories of St. Thomas and the Saint Paul Seminary:

stpaul academyThere have been many books written about UST.  Here are two of the most popular:  

More can be found in the University Archives.  

 

*For more information about our President-Elect, Dr Julie Sullivan, please visit the St Thomas Newsroom.

Kudos to Karen Brunner!

Published on: Thursday, February 25th, 2010

I was talking to one of the full time MBA students yesterday and she told me that she is a fan of our new chat reference feature. She then told me how amazed she was that not only was she able to chat with a librarian around midnight about her ABR project, but that she was very happy with the help she received. And I should note too that the Applied Business Research project she was working on involves a relatively high level business research so she assumed that she was talking to one of us (!)

Because of the late night timing of her questions (and I did verify that she was working/chatting past 10 PM) I knew it had to be Karen she was ‘talking’ to. I was very pleased when she told me all of these things that I had to share.

Thank you Karen for making her very happy and making the rest of us look good!

Recognizing Library Facebook Updating

Published on: Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Karen Brunner and Nathan Wunrow are doing a wonderful job sharing comments and thoughts  frequently on the UST LIbraries Facebook page. Great work! And thanks to Earl too for his contributions and being the first to get an account up and running.  Diane

Dissertations and Theses full text

Published on: Monday, January 11th, 2010

Thanks to a great collaborative effort to bring Dissertations and Theses: full text to our work space! Talia, Merry, Faith, CMC

Great – nice review, Merrie and thanks to CMC for making this decision. It is a good one. Dan

Nathan is so helpful!

Published on: Monday, January 11th, 2010

I would like it to go on record that Nathan is  – not only – knowledgeable regarding  the policies and procedures of the Circulation and Reserves Departments, but he continuously shares his expertise and does it in a highly professional manner.   He is always helpful and ready to give good advice and I appreciate his work ethic!! Judith

Street Thanks for Eric!

Published on: Monday, July 27th, 2009

Professor Wendt driving down the street cranked hiswindow open and hollared to Eric, thanks for the stuff you got for me last week! Nice way to start the morning for sure.

Lovely talk on Gardens and Health

Published on: Friday, May 15th, 2009

Kud0s to Susan for her great Health and Garden Noon talk on Wednesday, May 13th. Steve Trost’s presentation was great as well with lots of Spring garden tips.
Earl Belisle

Fabulous help in the stacks

Published on: Monday, May 11th, 2009

Yesterday around noon a Circ student worker gave a patron great service. He was shelving or retrieving books in the stacks and encountered a student looking for the New England Journal of Medicine. When they didn’t find the journal there, he found his way to my office to help her out. I pointed out that the year needed was available only on microfiche and he and the patron headed off to the micro room. He came back to follow up on her behalf regarding the equipment and I went to help her further. In any case, I wanted to say he did a great job.
Dani

Great job Susan

Published on: Monday, May 4th, 2009

Kudos for Susan’s organizing the Senior Citizen’s Open House.
Earl Belisle

Kudos to Jan O.

Published on: Monday, May 4th, 2009

…for figuring out how to get our personal folders back in Outlook, and communicating this!
Marianne Hagemann