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October 2015

Faculty Feature: Celebrating Faculty Scholarship

faculty_scholarship As you may have seen in your email, this fall, the Libraries are collaborating with Faculty Affairs, the Center for Faculty Development and the Grants and Research Office to celebrate UST faculty scholarship. In preparation for an event on November 20th, the Libraries are putting together a list of faculty publications between July of 2014 and September of 2015.

We monitor faculty publications throughout the year and already have a good start on this list. In an effort to make the list as comprehensive as possible, we’re making additional request of you to send us the citations of your publications – including (again, from July 2014 – September 2015):

Books
Chapters
Articles
Refereed Conference Presentations

We’ll be creating a physical and virtual display of what we know will be an impressive collection of the scholarly and creative output of our faculty.

We’d hate to miss anything! Please send your citations to Laura Hansen at O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library. Any questions, please call Laura at 962-5011.

Thanks!

October 22, 2015 by

Database Highlights & Trials

TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES – TAYLOR & FRANCIS

1:16pm. This issue has been resolved. Please let us know if you experience otherwise.

We have over 140 journals from the publisher Taylor & Francis. They are currently experiencing technical difficulties. They are aware of the problem and working on it. Thanks for your patience.

October 21, 2015 by

News & Events

O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library Rearranged its Book Collection

Over the last 17 months the OSF Library has shifted 250,000+ books over 5 floors in order to potentially provide more study space for students.

A big thank you to all of our student staff who put in many hours to make this move possible (those who helped complete this project: Meg, Maria, Andrew, Maddie)!

The purpose of this project is so that we can move all Bound Journals to the Sub Level of the library and start the book collection on the Lower Level, extending up to Level 4.

Books are now on these floors: dan

Lower Level: A – DX

Level 2: E – HV

Level 3: HX – PN

Level 4: PQ – Z

Bound Journals are currently being shifted from Levels 3.5, 3, and Lower Level down to Sub Level.

If you have questions or comments about this project, please let us know.

See the Library’s March 12^th, 2014 blog post for more details on the project

Photo: Dan, the Director of the UST Libraries, shelving the last book!

October 20, 2015 by

Faculty News, Libraries, News & Events

Coming Soon: Copyright Workshop with Nancy Sims

Hey Professor! Do you have questions about copyright? We have the workshop for you!

UST libraries are pleased to host an event with copyright specialist Nancy Sims, who will speak about the issues and challenges of copyright from a faculty member’s perspective. nancy

Join us on Wednesday, November 11 from 3:30-5:00pm in ASC’s Hearth Room. Refreshments will provided; register here to reserve your seat!

We’ve asked Nancy to address the following topics:

what constitutes Fair Use
choosing/providing access to course materials
obtaining permission to use a copyrighted work

But come prepared with any other questions you may have: her presentation will be followed by a question-and-answer period.

Nancy is the Copyright Program Librarian at the University of Minnesota libraries. She holds a JD from the University of Michigan Law School and an MLIS from Rutgers University and says that her job is not to be the “copyright police” on her campus, but to help individuals and groups throughout the University community to understand issues surrounding copyright and scholarly communication. She is fascinated by copyright law in all of its aspects, and in particular, how individuals construct understandings of copyright as it relates to their own scholarly, artistic, professional, personal, cultural, and communicative activities.

She has published articles and presented at conferences about copyright issues, technology, and emerging forms of scholarship.

October 15, 2015 by

News & Events

RESOLVED: TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES – JSTOR

Full JSTOR access was restored on October 15th.

This is still happening, sadly. Here’s the latest update from JSTOR:

Service Update – October 14, 2015

We are continuing to make progress restoring full access to JSTOR. Users should be able to search, browse, and access most journal articles and primary sources on www.jstor.org. Access to books as well as journal content published in the most recent few years may be intermittent. If you need help, please feel free to email us at support@jstor.org.

JSTOR is currently experiencing technical difficulties. It seems there is intermittent access. This has been happening since yesterday. The JSTOR technical support team is aware of the problem and working on it. We apologize for any inconvenience.

October 13, 2015 by

Libraries, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library, Special Collections and Archives

Tales From the Archives : Parking Woes

Members of Omicron Alpha Nu with a “Tin Lizzy,” 1922.

As we circle the campus parking lots and ramps looking for that elusive open parking space, many might think that parking issues are a new thing on the St. Thomas campus. But as early as 1925, the St. Thomas student newspaper – The Purple and Gray — was reporting problems with cars at the College. In particular, the noise made by cars entering and leaving campus disrupted classroom instruction so much that the school’s administration was forced to ask the students to park only in an open area south of the Armory (now the site of the Anderson Student Center).

Purple and Gray, October 2, 1925

The St. Thomas students, however, extolled the virtues of the automobile in aid of their education. The vehicles brought students from great distances (for example, Minnetonka and White Bear Lake) to attend classes on campus. Plus, the cars were seen as less of nuisance than the horses which carried commuter students to the College in the past (and perhaps airplanes in the future).

Purple and Gray, October 16, 1925

To find out more about the College of St. Thomas in the 1920s, browse the Purple and Gray newspaper and the Kaydet in the Historic University Publications database.

October 13, 2015 by Ann Kenne

Charles J. Keffer Library, Faculty News, News & Events, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library

Faculty Feature: Display Student Research in the Library!

Did you make it to Inquiry at UST this year? It always includes such an impressive amount of research, and I can only imagine how you as faculty members must be proud of what your students have accomplished.

We at UST Libraries share your pride, and we are always willing to share the research itself, too!

We have several options to help ensure that students’ work can be shared with the larger UST community for longer than the typical 90-minute presentation window:

OSF Library Rotunda: We have several easels on which we keep a rotating display of student posters – to catch the interest of everyone who seems to swing by this hub of Tommie activity. We’d be happy to add yours to the list!
OSF Reference Area: The lower shelving in the OSF reference area is also a great place to display projects – it generates a lot of attention from people at Coffee Bene! We look forward every year to the amazing feats of the Physics 101 roller coasters. Does your class produce anything similar?
Digital Display Monitors: If a physical poster is not available, monitors at both OSF and Keffer Libraries can display PDF versions.

Sound intriguing? Contact Laura Hansen to arrange a time to get your student’s work its time in the UST Libraries limelight!

October 8, 2015 by

Database Highlights & Trials

Trial – Flipster

Two years ago we introduced BrowZine, a powerful, digital browsing experience for academic journals, and now we are trialing a similar product for popular magazines. Until the end of October, you can browse, flip through, and read the more than 650 magazines available on Flipster, a digital newsstand for anytime access on your computer or mobile device. Magazines in Flipster have true-to-life layout with all the full color pictures and advertisements.

Flipster allows you to browse the latest issues of high quality digital versions of popular magazines, courtesy of the library. As I said, our current trial includes their entire collection of magazines, but in the event that we subscribe to Flipster, we would have to pick and choose which titles we could offer. It may also be the case that we HAVE to subscribe to certain titles through Flipster, because rumor has it, titles such as Science News may ONLY be available to us in the future through Flipster.

Flipster has many features designed to give readers an easy and fun digital reading experience. You can browse magazines by category as well as perform searches for specific magazines. An online newsstand provides a carousel of the most recent issues, as well as a carousel of all issues allowing for quick access to magazines. The table of contents contains links to quickly go to articles of interest and hotlinks within magazines are hyperlinked, opening in separate tabs when clicked. In addition, there is an option to zoom in and out for better readability.

Please check out this fun resource before our trial ends on October 31. Send any feedback and which magazines you would like to see it host to Meg Manahan <mkmanahan@stthomas.edu>, or leave your comments below.

October 2, 2015 by Kari Petryszyn

Libraries, News & Events, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library

Summit Singers and Cadenza in Concert in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library

Cadenza

The Summit Singers

On Thursday, October 8, beginning at 8pm you are invited to the second floor of the library. Follow the sounds of your friends singing in the “Harry Potter” room. There will be popular songs, a chance to relax with friends, some refreshments, too. These two a cappella groups have received growing notoriety and accolades and are so much fun to hear. Read on for more information about each of these student groups – Summit Singers and Cadenza.

October 1, 2015 by

Libraries, News & Events, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library

noonartsound: Wilkinson James to perform at noon Oct 6 in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Noon to 1pm

O’Shaughnessy Room in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library

As explained by our performers, Drs. AJ Scheiber and Liz Wilkinson – members of UST’s English Department, traditional country music was once defined as “three chords and the truth.” It’s a song tradition in which simplicity of expression is valued, and which describes the everyday struggles of ordinary people to put food on the table, to find love, community, and justice, and to go forward with hope despite the frequent scarcity of all these things. It is a song tradition that is realistic and unsentimental, yet capable of artfully expressing longing, love, and pride — sometimes with passion, sometimes with humor.

Folk/honky-tonk duo Wilkinson James will perform some of their original songs in this genre of “three chords and the truth,” and Dr. Shelly Nordtorp-Madson of UST’s Art History Department will present and discuss some visual artifacts that reflect these musical themes and attitudes. Please plan to join us!

For background on the library’s noonartsound series which began in March of 2013, please read on.

noonartsound presentations are free and open to the public

light refreshments will be provided

Questions? Please call Julie Kimlinger at 651-962-5014

October 1, 2015 by

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