You are invited to take a look at a new tutorial video prepared by Jan Malcheski, reference librarian at the Ireland Library, where you’ll be introduced to the new look of the CLICnet catalog. Please give it a try and be sure to send your comments to Jan who is still fine-tuning this helpful tool. You’ll find this video in Jan’s recent blog entry on the Ireland Library page.

Q: Linda, please tell why you went so public with this matter.
A: “In a publishing world with many unfair practices to their customers, it shouldn’t be that unusual for a librarian to speak out publicly. Evidently it is. When Wiley stopped talking to us as we attempted to negotiate a fair license for their online content, I wrote them and I sent the letters to liblicense and Serialist email lists. I was worried about being able to provide well-used content online where we know our users prefer it.
“From there the letters were picked up by bloggers and other lists and most recently in Library Journal’s Academic Newswire.
“The positive response for UST is great and will allow us to continue to provide online access to Wiley content.”
Read the Library Journal article to learn more about this issue. Congratulations and thank you, Linda!

Q: Linda, please tell why you went so public with this matter.
A: “In a publishing world with many unfair practices to their customers, it shouldn’t be that unusual for a librarian to speak out publicly. Evidently it is. When Wiley stopped talking to us as we attempted to negotiate a fair license for their online content, I wrote them and I sent the letters to liblicense and Serialist email lists. I was worried about being able to provide well-used content online where we know our users prefer it.
“From there the letters were picked up by bloggers and other lists and most recently in Library Journal’s Academic Newswire.
“The positive response for UST is great and will allow us to continue to provide online access to Wiley content.”
Read the Library Journal article to learn more about this issue. Congratulations and thank you, Linda!

The UST Libraries Summer Reading List is now available on the web site. Perhaps our biggest and best to date! Thanks to Reference Librarian Eric Kallas for compiling the list and student worker Rachael Main for constructing the web page.

When you next visit the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library we invite you to go to the lower level and see a new piece of art that has been donated to the University of St. Thomas and has found a new home with us. This piece of sculpture by Loet Vanderveen is called Elephant Herd.
The description for this work reads: Loet Vanderveen grew up in Rotterdam, Holland where he visited the city zoo. He recalls the horrific day of May 14, 1940 when the Germans bombed Rotterdam and the zoo was structurally compromised. The Dutch army shot many of the animals to prevent them from roaming the city and harming residents. Vanderveen recalls a few animals survived and he describes the movement of one of the elephants this way: “. . . in the midst of it all, there was one elephant roaming. It was very, very poetic.” In some of his sculptures Vanderveen explores this memory in the form of a single elephant. In the work he donated to the University of St. Thomas, Vanderveen expands on the subject and reveals the grace and beauty of an elephant herd moving together.

Take a peek at a similar work of art by this artist, and we’re certain you’ll want to see ours in person.

Take a few minutes to look at the new look of the CLICnet catalog. First you will see a simple search box for keyword searching, and then a variety of new options for refining results by subject, format, location, publication date, tag, etc. The idea of this “discovery layer” on the existing catalog is to simplify searching for users while giving them some new functionality to explore the consortium’s resources. Since the new CLICnet has a new URL, faculty should please remember to change any links you have in course pages before you teach your next class. We’ll be incorporating the new catalog version in links from the Library website through the summer. Don’t worry, the “classic” catalog with its existing advanced search options will still be available from the Libraries “Other Catalogs” page and via a link from CLICnet itself. More info

The O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library has two new group-study rooms on Level 1 in Rooms 109 and 110, bringing the number of group-study rooms in this library to 10. All UST libraries have meeting rooms or group-study spaces available to users. Some spaces can be reserved in advance.
Here are some guidelines and details about the study rooms in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library.
Computers are available for your use in study rooms LL20, LL21 and 312B. These computers have the same Microsoft software as the computers in the InfoCommons and other computing labs (Word, Excel, etc.); however, you are not able to print from them.
These rooms are intended to be used by groups of three or more people.
Groups can sign up to use a room for a maximum of two hours. Any group-study room can be reserved in advance by signing up on the reserve sheets posted on the doors.
Unscheduled groups using the space need to vacate the room when a scheduled group arrives. Groups lose their right to the room if they do not claim it within 10 minutes of their scheduled time.
Although individuals do not sign up to reserve these rooms, a person studying alone is welcome to use a group-study room if open, but will need to vacate it if the room is needed by a group.
The group study rooms are not to be used for regularly scheduled meetings.
LL21 is a “quiet computer study room.” There are several computers in this room available for computer work in a quiet environment.
We wish you well and good luck in your studies as you come close to completing your year. Good luck on your finals.

The O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library has two new group-study rooms on Level 1 in Rooms 109 and 110, bringing the number of group-study rooms in this library to 10. All UST libraries have meeting rooms or group-study spaces available to users. Some spaces can be reserved in advance.
Here are some guidelines and details about the study rooms in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library.
Computers are available for your use in study rooms LL20, LL21 and 312B. These computers have the same Microsoft software as the computers in the InfoCommons and other computing labs (Word, Excel, etc.); however, you are not able to print from them.
These rooms are intended to be used by groups of three or more people.
Groups can sign up to use a room for a maximum of two hours. Any group-study room can be reserved in advance by signing up on the reserve sheets posted on the doors.
Unscheduled groups using the space need to vacate the room when a scheduled group arrives. Groups lose their right to the room if they do not claim it within 10 minutes of their scheduled time.
Although individuals do not sign up to reserve these rooms, a person studying alone is welcome to use a group-study room if open, but will need to vacate it if the room is needed by a group.
The group study rooms are not to be used for regularly scheduled meetings.
LL21 is a “quiet computer study room.” There are several computers in this room available for computer work in a quiet environment.
We wish you well and good luck in your studies as you come close to completing your year. Good luck on your finals.

Hello Students – Do you have a deadline approaching for a project or paper? Don’t know where to start your research? Stop by the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center reference desk anytime between noon to 1 p.m. any Tuesday or Thursday for “just-in-time” training. Librarians will provide informal five-minute sessions on how to find books, e-books, articles, DVDs and more. Make your research life easier!