World History in Video a wide-ranging collection of critically acclaimed documentaries that allow students and researchers to explore human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century. The video content offered here is truly global in scope, covering Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania.
Please send comments to Cindy. Trial ends May 1, 2013.
American History in Video provides streaming video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.
Please send comments to Cindy. Trial ends May 1, 2013.
Attention all UST sky-watchers: If you haven’t heard of it yet, a new comet will soon be making its debut in the Northern hemisphere!
Called Comet PanSTARRS, it was discovered back in June 2011 by the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) based at the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy.
photo credit: www.skyandtelescope.com
Since its discovery, the comet has been slowly heading toward the inner solar system on its way to reaching its closest point to the sun, known as perihelion, which will occur on March 10.
In early February, people in Australia started taunting us with their great pictures as it was seen for the first time with a naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere. It has continued on its way north, though, and on March 12, comet PanSTARRS will pass into Northern Hemisphere skies.
photo credit: Luis Argerich – Nightscape Photography
The best times to look will be on the evenings of March 12th and 13th. On those evenings you can use the crescent Moon as a guide to help you find PanSTARRS. On the 12th the comet will be to the Moon’s upper left. On the 13th, the comet will be to the Moon’s lower right. If the skies are clear, you should be able to see it with a naked eye somewhat close to the horizon, although binoculars will definitely help to see the tail more clearly.
Busy those nights? No worries: if you miss it, you will only have 110,000 years to wait for its next appearance!
(Or you can wait a few months to see another comet; Comet ISON, predicted to be even brighter, is hot on its heels in November. We’ll be sure to keep you posted when it comes near!)
Want to read more? Check out some great coverage in our library databases and at Sky and Telescope.com
Have you heard of RefWorks but don’t know quite what it is or how to use it?
If so, today is your lucky day!
RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool — it’s designed to help researchers (ahem, that means you!) easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.
In short, RefWorks is something that can save your skin when working on all those pesky research papers that seem to pop up when you just so happen to be a college student.
RefWorks allows you to do all sorts of nifty things, like:
- Create a personal database online where you can store an unlimited amounts of references that are, accessible from any computer without having to download or install any software
- Import references automatically from a wide variety of databases.
- Organize references so that you can sort and search your stored references quickly and easily.
- Format citations and bibliographies instantly in any of hundreds of styles: (APA, MLA, Turabian, etc.)
- Attach files to your citations (100MB of file storage for attaching files at up to 5MB each)
In order to use RefWorks you must create an account. But, thanks to how UST’s subscription is set up, once you have an account it is yours forever!
Find out more on our RefWorks subject guide or by asking your favorite UST librarian! Also keep on the lookout for some “Just in Time” quick workshops in the library throughout the semester about this and other topics!
This infographic came out earlier this month, but I thought it had some interesting statistics on the coexistence of ebooks and print books:
From the Swiss Army Librarian blog: http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/.
Introducing: noonartsound
The O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library and UST faculty members Shelly Nordtorp-Madson (art history) and Chris Kachian (music) invite you to a series of noontime talks on a variety of periods in art, sculpture, painting, costume history along with guitar music of the corresponding time periods. Shelley and Chris have been performing full-length concerts together for 10 years.
The Library is happy to announce this new series and extends an invitation to all. Shelley and Chris share a unique style, humor, academic breadth of knowledge, along with beautiful yet “unstuffy” presentations of their art. Bring your lunch, light refreshments will be provided.
The noonartsound schedule:
i Tuesday, March 5 “parlor 1590-1890” Noon to 1pm
features the design and art and music of what we call the living room – Shelley will give a presentation about art of the period; Chris will play music of the times with compositions from Dowland, Corbetta, Devisee, Vivaldi, Wiener, and Tarrega.
O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library, O’Shaughnessy Room, 108
ii Tuesday, April 2 “queens prefer…” Noon to 1pm
highlights the sights and sounds of England in the late 16th Century
O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library
iii Tuesday, May 7 “invierno” Noon to 1pm
spotlights the look, feel and touch of the Latin American world
O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library
iv Tuesday, October 1 – “…don’t mean a thing…” Noon to 1pm
brings you the art and music of the Jazz Era
O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library
About the Artists:
Christopher Kachian, guitarist, and professor of Music at the University of St. Thomas, has performed throughout Europe, the Americas, South and Central America and the Far East, as recitalist, chamber musician and concerto soloist. His American performances have included a significant number of works written in the last twenty-five years, many of them commissions. These include over thirty works for guitar including 20 concerti. He has written Composer’s Desk Reference for the Classic Guitar in consultation with over 25 composers, published by Mel Bay Publications. He has been heard on Minnesota Public Radio, National Public Radio and American Public Media (including several appearances on A Prairie Home Companion).
Notable premiere recordings include Conrad Susa’s Carols and Lullabies (RCA 1995), David Baker’s Images, Shadows and Dreams (Collins Classics 1996 and Clarion as Dance Like the Wind, Music of Today’s Black Composers), Woodwind Music (Innova 1997), phoenix ensemble#1 (Valve-Hearts [Germany] 1998), Falls Flyer (10,000 Lakes 2002), Cyprus, First Impressions (Innova 2006), The J.S. Bach Sonatas for Gamba and Harpsichord for Guitar and Harpsichord by Chris Kachian and David Jenkins (2007), A Night in Vienna, (10, 000 Lakes 2011). With the Arpeggione Duo he has recorded Wanderer Sonata and Folklore (Ars Nova [Stockholm] 2006, 2009). Numerous other recordings of music ranging from blues to Christmas music are in his discography.
Since 1984, Dr. Kachian has directed one of the largest guitar programs in the USA at the University of St Thomas. He has lectured in music of Europe, the Americas, the Twentieth-Century, the World, the United States, Film, Protest, Mathematics, and Guitar Pedagogy and Guitar Literature. He is the founder of the UST Music Business, Recording Arts, and the Popular Music degrees. 2001 – 2005, he served as Director of Guitar Studies for MMTA for whom he lead – authored and edited the nation’s first comprehensive, multi-genre guitar pedagogy syllabus. In 2011, he wrote the film score for Per Bianca, which won Best Film at the Minnesota 48-Hour Film Festival and won a screening at the Cannes Film Festival.
Recent notable USA premiere performances are Astor Piazzolla’s Double Concerto and Franz Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata. The ongoing series of Baroque concerts, with keyboardist, David Jenkins, with the Society for the Doctrinal Affectation of Baroque Music, an early music ensemble and the Arpeggione Duo, a Stockholm-based cello and guitar duo specializing in new folk music, round out his concert career.
To round out his biography, in 2012 Dr. Kachian received national recognition by the Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity as a National Arts Associate and Distinguished Member.
Shelly Nordtorp-Madson is the chief curator and clinical faculty in the Department of Art History.
She holds an MA in Medieval Art History, a PhD in Design History, and a technical diploma in dress design and draping. At UST she designs and mounts exhibits in OEC and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in medieval art and dress history.
After spending four years on a nine-month language immersion program in Denmark, she moved to Minnesota, where she wandered around accumulating degrees and returning to Scandinavia whenever possible. Having worked at UST in a possibly record-setting number of positions, she now, as well as curatorial work and teaching, presents papers annually on medieval dress and her most recent obsession: shape-shifting in the medieval period, particularly relating to otters.
We invite you to join us!
The Harlem Shake is now being done in libraries across the world. Here is one of the better ones:
Thursday, March 14, Dr. Jill Manske of the Biology Department will be presenting in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library, Room 309, over Convo hour, from 12-1pm.
Dr. Manske received her Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota.
Professional Interests:
Her broad research interest centers on the intersection between immunology, infectious disease, and community health. Currently, Dr. Manske is collaborating with the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) on projects related to influenza, influenza vaccine and science policy.
In addition, she has an ongoing (three year) project performing surveillance of Borrelia burgdorfei, the Lyme disease agent, in small mammals at Macalester College’s Katherine Ordway Natural History Study. This project involves a field component (animal trapping) followed by PCR analysis of tissue samples for presence of the specific disease-causing agent.
Please note the room change from our typical location. We will be meeting in Room 309 instead of the O’Shaughnessy Room, Rm 108.
All students are invited to participate in discussion this Thursday, and every Thursday, at noon, in the library, Rm 108. For more information and weekly updates, visit The Telos Project Facebook group, follow us on Twitter, email TheTelosProjectUST@gmail.com, or visit our website:
We’ve been given the “all clear” signal from the consortium. You should no longer be seeing malware warnings when attempting to use CLICnet. If you do, try refreshing your browser, or refreshing and restarting.
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 Resources
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
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 Thomas
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:
There 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.