| Linda Hulbert, associate director for collection management and services for the UST Libraries invites us to read about a familiar web site security measure that is also a project to transform old books, magazines, newspapers or pamphlets into accurate, searchable and easily sortable computer text files. For a very interesting piece, check out this March 28, 2011 New York Times article. |
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The libraries of St. Thomas want your short, library-themed videos for National Library Week, April 11-15 .
The theme of this year’s week is “Create your own story @ your library.” The O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center, the Charles J. Keffer Library and the Archbishop Ireland Memorial Library invite St. Thomas students to enter a two-minute or shorter video showing their UST Libraries stories – for a free coffee at Coffee Bené and a chance to win one, maybe both, of the $25 gift certificates to iTunes.
All current UST students are eligible and invited to enter the contest.
One winning video will be picked by a panel of judges, and one will be voted as the fan favorite. Official rules and information on how to enter a video, as well as contact information if you have questions, are available on the UST Library Week website.
News & Events
J-term VISION trip to Venezuela documentary film in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library, Noon, March 31
You are all cordially invited to see a film created by Paul-Michael Carr who accompanied this year’s Vision trip to Venezuela specifically to document the trip. Please come to the O’Shaughnessy Room on Thursday, March 31 at Noon. Filmmaker Carr has focused on the internal changes that take place within the hearts of the volunteers and it is a compelling look at the work of the UST VISION teams. We hope you will join us – refreshments will be provided. For more information please see the complete Bulletin Today article.
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science is a cool set of physical exhibits featuring infographics and maps that are also browseable online. From the website: “Places & Spaces: Mapping Science is meant to inspire cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate human activity and scientific progress on a global scale. It has two components: the physical part supports the close inspection of high quality reproductions of maps for display at conferences and education centers; the online counterpart provides links to a selected series of maps and their makers along with detailed explanations of how these maps work. The exhibit is a 10-year effort. Each year, 10 new maps are added resulting in 100 maps total in 2014.”
See the exhibits/maps organized around their annual themes (listed below) or browse them all.
The exhibit is a 10-year effort. Each year, 10 new maps are added resulting in 100 maps total in 2014.
1st Iteration (2005): The Power of Maps
2nd Iteration (2006): The Power of Reference Systems
3rd Iteration (2007): The Power of Forecasts
4th Iteration (2008): Science Maps for Economic Decision Makers
5th Iteration (2009): Science Maps for Science Policy Makers
6th Iteration (2010): Science Maps for Scholars
7th Iteration (2011): Science Maps as Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries
8th Iteration (2012): Science Maps for Kids
9th Iteration (2013): Science Maps for Daily Science Forecasts
10th Iteration (2014): Telling Lies with Science Maps
Listen to a podcast about the project or see a short YouTube video clip :
Check out the Census Bureau’s interactive map for the first preliminary county-level results for Minnesota from the 2010 U.S. Census (when the U.S. map opens, click on the state):
See more Census data as it’s released on their website or blog.
During 2011 spring break please note these library hours in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library:
Sunday, March 20 Noon – 10pm
Monday, March 21 8am -10pm
Tuesday, March 22 8am – 10pm
Wednesday, March 23 8am – 10pm
Thursday, March 24 8am – 10pm
Friday, March 25 8am – 6pm
Saturday, March 26 10am – 6pm
Sunday, March 27 regular spring hours resume: Noon to 2am
You can check this library website to find detailed information about all of the library hours.
Looking for a cup of coffee? Not in the library this week – please visit Coffee Bene next to Davanni’s. Regular coffee shop hours in the library will resume on Monday, March 28.
Database Highlights & Trials, News & Events, Uncategorized
UST Libraries to cancel subscription to Kompass
The libraries first subscribed to Kompass in 2004 and at the time it was the only resource that provided international company and industry information. Since that time the libraries have acquired other databases that provide the same type of information, most notably Euromonitor Global Market Information Database and OneSource Global Business Browserwhich contains data from Kompass and other international company sources. While Kompass is not an expensive product, especially compared to other business databases, the business librarians felt the information in Kompass is readily available in other sources and the money needed to pay for Kompass would be better used on other products.
Therefore, we will be cancelling the title and it will disappear on March 31st. Please send your comments and concerns to Andrea Koeppe 2-4674 or arhudson@stthomas.edu
Media:scape is now a permanent installation in Room 110
The O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library has transformed one of its group studies into a collaborative study space using Steelcase’s media:scape equipment, which allows a group of users to display content on their computer monitors to two large flat panel displays, making group work much easier. The media:scape has been installed in OSF Room 110, right next to the coffee shop. After several weeks of a successful trial earlier this winter, the Libraries decided to make it permanent and have purchased the furnishings. Comments from faculty, staff, and students were very positive and the library is pleased to offer this great environment for collaborative learning.
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Library asks help from everyone to keep the library clean – and more quiet!
A habit of leaving behind trash on the study tables has seemed to develop and we ask your help in keeping our house clean. It is your library – please be sure that if you do enjoy a snack in the library, put the wrappers, etc. into a trash bin. If it is something you can recycle, please take the extra moment and place it in the proper receptacle. Thank you to all for your help – we can keep the place clean very easily if we all “pitch in.”
Someone calling you? Do you need to make a call? Please use your cell phones in areas outside of study areas and stairwells. Your voices carry much further than you realize – please respect the need of others in the library for quiet study and take your phone calls to the coffee shop, the lobby, the cybercafé on lower level, or outside of the library. Thank you very much.
News & Events
Dr. Carmela Garritano to speak in Library Friday, March 4, at 3:15 pm: West African video movie making
Dr. Carmela Garritano, English Department, will present “Spectacular Consumption in an Afropolis: A Talk About West African Video Movies” on Friday, March 4. The event will be held from 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. in the O’Shaughnessy Room, Room 108, O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center. The event is free and open to the campus community and the public; coffee and cookies will be served.
Dr. Carmela Garritano The emergence of popular video industries in Ghana and Nigeria represents an important and exciting development in African cultural production over the past two decades. An inexpensive, widely available, and easy-to-use technology for the production, duplication and distribution of movies and other media content, video has radically transformed the African cultural landscape.
It has allowed video makers in Ghana and Nigeria, individuals who in most cases are detached from official cultural institutions and work outside the purview of the state, to create a tremendously popular commercial cinema for audiences in Africa and abroad: feature “films” made on video.
This talk, drawn from Garritano’s research on the Ghanaian video industry, will describe the changing representation of the African city, or the Afropolis, in video movies produced between the late 1980s and 2010.
In the earliest videos, the landscape of urban poverty was a constitutive part of the worlds the movies presented, and in the narratives of these movies, deprivation was the social given that motivated characters’ choices. More recently, the urban landscape, when made visible at all, is largely devoid of signs of hardship or poverty. The city is made to resemble a display window, a framed and carefully orchestrated surface exhibition of consumerism and consumption.
Garritano’s presentation will suggest a correspondence between this shift and transformations in the economic and structural organization of media institutions, including the opening of the West African cultural landscape to new global media flows.
(Article from Bulletin Today, March 1, 2011)