Monthly Archives
January 2009
Kudos
Kudos to Curt for rolling up the sleeves and attacking (well….weeding) the overladen L shelves at Ireland.
On Tuesday January 20th, we’ll show live coverage of the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States. Live streaming video from the web of the various inauguration ceremonies and parade will be running all day in rooms 102 and 208 of the Library. 
Stop by any time during the day to watch the coverage.
Event Schedule from the Presidential Inauguration Committee:
Tuesday, January 20th – Inauguration Day
The President-elect and Vice President-elect and their families will participate in the traditional inaugural ceremonies and events. For the first time ever, the length of the National Mall will be open to those wishing to attend the swearing-in ceremony. Festivities will commence at 10 a.m. (9 AM Central time) on the west front of the U.S. Capitol and will include:
• Musical Selections: The United States Marine Band, followed by The San Francisco Boys Chorus and the San Francisco Girls Chorus
• Call to Order and Welcoming Remarks: Senator Dianne Feinstein
• Invocation: Dr. Rick Warren
• Musical Selection: Aretha Franklin
• Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden, Jr. will be sworn into office by Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, the Honorable John Paul Stevens
• Musical Selection: John Williams, composer/arranger with Itzhak Perlman, (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Gabriela Montero (piano) and Anthony McGill (clarinet)
• President-elect Barack H. Obama will take the Oath of Office, using President Lincoln’s Inaugural Bible, administered by the Chief Justice of the United States, the Honorable John G. Roberts, Jr.
• Inaugural Address
• Poem: Elizabeth Alexander
• Benediction: The Reverend Dr. Joseph E. Lowery
• The National Anthem: The United States Navy Band “Sea Chanters”
After President Obama gives his Inaugural Address, he will escort outgoing President George W. Bush to a departure ceremony before attending a luncheon in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall. The 56th Inaugural Parade will then make its way down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House with groups traveling from all over the country to participate.
Later that day, the Presidential Inaugural Committee will host ten official Inaugural Balls.
News & Events
O'Shaughnessy-Frey and Keffer Libraries invite UST Staff to Open Houses on Thursday, January 29
The UST Libraries invite all UST staff members to Open Houses on both the St. Paul and Minneapolis campuses. We would like to share the wealth of resources and services that are available to you! Learn about accessing online journals and e-books, requesting interlibrary loans, visiting special collections, media library materials, and discover our new leisure reading collection. If you have any kind of question about library services please drop in for as long or short of a time as you would like! And remember, you can make an appointment for a future one-on-one session with a librarian at any time during the year.
The Open Houses will be on Thursday, January 29th from 11:30 until 1:00 — in Room 102 in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library AND on the first floor of the Keffer Library in Minneapolis. Treats and beverages will be provided.
For more information please contact Jo Ann Toussaint, O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library, at 962-5409 or Andrea Koeppe in the Keffer Library. at 962-4647.
News & Events
O'Shaughnessy-Frey and Keffer Libraries invite UST Staff to Open Houses on Thursday, January 29
The UST Libraries invite all UST staff members to Open Houses on both the St. Paul and Minneapolis campuses. We would like to share the wealth of resources and services that are available to you! Learn about accessing online journals and e-books, requesting interlibrary loans, visiting special collections, media library materials, and discover our new leisure reading collection. If you have any kind of question about library services please drop in for as long or short of a time as you would like! And remember, you can make an appointment for a future one-on-one session with a librarian at any time during the year.
The Open Houses will be on Thursday, January 29th from 11:30 until 1:00 — in Room 102 in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library AND on the first floor of the Keffer Library in Minneapolis. Treats and beverages will be provided.
For more information please contact Jo Ann Toussaint, O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library, at 962-5409 or Andrea Koeppe in the Keffer Library. at 962-4647.
50th Anniversary: OSF Library, News & Events
Feature film "Party Girl" will be shown at 4pm, January 22, in the O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library, Room 108
We are celebrating the 50th Birthday of the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library in 2009 and we begin the year-long festivities by inviting you to a free screening of “Party Girl” in the O’Shaughnessy Room on Thursday, January 22. 
We’ll have one showing at 4:00 pm, complete with movie treats! “Party Girl,” starring Parker Posey (who also has appeared in TV’s “Will & Grace,” “Boston Legal,” and “Project Runway”) is a 1995 coming-of-age comedy about a free-spirited, club-hopping young woman who takes a job as a library clerk to prove to her librarian godmother that she can become a responsible adult.
If you have any questions, please call Andrea Koeppe, librarian, at 651-962-4647 or Julie Kimlinger at 651-962-5014.
50th Anniversary: OSF Library, News & Events
Feature film "Party Girl" will be shown at 4pm, January 22, in the O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library, Room 108
We are celebrating the 50th Birthday of the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library in 2009 and we begin the year-long festivities by inviting you to a free screening of “Party Girl” in the O’Shaughnessy Room on Thursday, January 22.
We’ll have one showing at 4:00 pm, complete with movie treats! “Party Girl,” starring Parker Posey (who also has appeared in TV’s “Will & Grace,” “Boston Legal,” and “Project Runway”) is a 1995 coming-of-age comedy about a free-spirited, club-hopping young woman who takes a job as a library clerk to prove to her librarian godmother that she can become a responsible adult.
If you have any questions, please call Andrea Koeppe, librarian, at 651-962-4647 or Julie Kimlinger at 651-962-5014.
The Archbishop Ireland Memorial was recently highlighted in the St. Paul Seminary’s School of Divinity’s publication, The Oracle. The article is entitled, “Ireland Library: A Theological Gem.” The article can be found here.
(The full issue of The Oracle can be found at http://www.stthomas.edu/spssod/oracle/currentissue/default.html )
posted by N. Curtis Le May
No. 1
January term is finally well underway. We are here to help you — as ever — though please note Library hours are not quite as long. Check out IRELAND LIBRARY HOURS. You will notice our spiffy new calendar look, courtesy of Google gadgets and the Library’s new web wonder worker, Ben Durrant.
No. 2
Through June, the Church celebrates the bi-millennial Year of Saint Paul the Apostle. We call attention to two small displays, one of recent books about Paul (check cases on either side of Circulation or this list from CLICnet) and a display in the Reference Room, including a Bible atlas illustrating missionary journeys, the Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, and a plate of the famous Caravaggio painting, from the venerable Encyclopedia of World Art (McGraw-Hill).
No. 3
Finally, our library conservator Sheila Hague brought forth a wonderful volume that had evaded cataloging for some years. Now added to the collection by cataloger Betsy Polakowski, it is the oversize second volume of a rare Coptic New Testament with parallel Arabic translation published in London, 1847-1852. As far as we can tell there are only a few sets in the States. Our volume joins the other Coptic-Arabic Bible in our Special Collections, a one volume parallel Gospels also published in Britain but a little earlier, in 1829.