You are all invited to shop our Library Week book sales . . . and bring your friends!

1. The O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library opens its book sale doors at Noon on Monday, April 14. This year we have been particularly blessed with large donations of beautiful books and you will be glad you did if you make a point to stop in and shop early!

Book sale hours at O’Shaughnessy-Frey:  Noon to 6pm,  Monday – Thursday,  April 14 – 17.
Prices:  3.00 for hardcovers and 2.00 for paperbacks.  

Library Week Specials:   Monday is Tommie Discount Day, so be sure to show your UST ID for discount!   

Thursday, is $5.00 a Bag Day –  everything you can fit into a bag is $5.00.

Then on Saturday, April 19, books that were not sold will be available for free all day long.    Call Julie at 962-5014 if you have any questions.

2. Staff from the Ireland Library invite you to their Annual Theology Book Sale and Silent Auction!    

Hours:  8am Monday, April 14 through  noon Thursday, April 17.
All books that remain after 12 noon on Thursday are free.     Please call Betsy at 962-5452 if you have questions.

See you at the book sales — we do believe you will not be sorry you stopped in!

This year’s history section has been carefully organized by student assistant Meg Walter! Thank you, Meg!

Daniel Volovets

You are cordially invited to attend a concert during Library Week, Wednesday evening, April 16 beginning at 6:30 pm.   Daniel Volovets is a guitarist, composer, and arranger with over 14 years of professional experience.  Majoring in neuroscience at the University of St. Thomas, he aspires to balance careers in medicine and music.    You may be familiar with this incredibly talented Tommie senior from the recent TommieMedia piece about his personal story and about the production of his fourth album, Rainy Highway. 

Daniel specializes in classical, flamenco, Latin American, jazz, and Russian music, as well as original compositions.  He often performs with his brother, Adrian Volovets, who is also an accomplished musician.  Adrian plays flute, violin, tenor/soprano saxophones, piano, pipe organ and the melodica.   Duets by the brothers demonstrate the unique interplay that is possible between Adrian’s instruments and Daniel’s guitar.

Daniel’s program begins at 6:30 pm on Wednesday evening, April 16.  He will be playing in the Great Hall, second floor of the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library.  All are welcome to attend this free concert.   Please don’t hesitate to call Julie at 962-5014 if you have any questions.

The O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library’s noonartsound series continues its spring season over the noon hour on Tuesday, April 1st, 2014 and you are all invited.

Noonartsound is an artful blend of musical performance and historical perspective, presented by Drs. Shelly Nordtorp-Madson, chief curator and a member of the clinical faculty in the Department of Art History, and Chris Kachian, guitarist and professor of music, Department of Music. 

Shelly Nordtorp-Madson and Chris Kachian

Nordtorp-Madson and Kachian have been performing these popular lecture-concerts together for more than 10 years. The professors are known for their unique style and humor, along with beautiful, satisfying, yet “unstuffy” presentations of their art.

The April 1st program “The Art & Music of the French Baroque Chambre” will provide music of the period, an introduction to French Baroque costume (especially relaxed costume), and a tour through the Palace of Versailles . . . along with all of its gossip!

All are welcome – feel free to bring your lunch – light refreshments will be provided.

After Tuesday’s program, the final in this series will take place on May 6, 2014: “Romantica: Spanish Art and Music of 1880-1910.″ 

Please plan to join us!   We’ll be in the O’Shaughnessy Room – Room 108 – of the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library.

Suggestion and allure: Collection shift in OSF

“Education is not furthered by secreting books in which the university has invested funds…displayed to possible readers, the collection becomes alive with suggestion and allure.” So declares an old (1970) book called University Library Administration sitting on my office shelf (mostly for looks, and, honestly, for its ironic value.) I took a look at it today when I was thinking about a big project that we are undertaking – the rearrangement of the books and periodicals in O’Shaughnessy Frey Library. Our goal with the project: move ALL bound journals to the sublevel of the library and rearrange the books on the rest of the floors. We want to make our print collections easier to access, and since the bound journal collection is actually shrinking, consolidating it on one floor is now realistic.

A project like this is major and will involve touching nearly every volume in the library. It is kind of like the sliding tile puzzle pictured above. We’ll be compressing collections on the sublevel, opening up space on level four, and then beginning the shift of the books, finally ending back on the sublevel, to which we’ll move the rest of the bound journals. Our hope is that we can complete the shift in 12 – 18 months, using mostly student labor, under the supervision of library staff. We do not expect that any books will be “out of circulation,” though there will be work going on at some place in the stacks as the books are moved.

At the end of the project, we’ll have opened up some good spaces which we will redesign for student use and we’ll engage the community in the design and development of those new spaces. More on that in the future! We’ll keep you informed on the progress of the big shift as it moves forward.

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

– Dan Gjelten, Director of Libraries