To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe’s birth, the English Department and the English honor society, Sigma Tau Delta/Literary Club, are hosting a Poe celebration. Professional character actor Jake Esau will dramatically recite several classic Poe stories and poems and will present biographical information on the writer. Featured Poe tale and poems include, “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Masque of the Red Death,” “The Raven,” and “Annabel Lee.”
Jake Esau has been a professional character actor/adapter-writer for 37 years, and has developed and performed more than 30 one-person shows and programs – mostly on literacy and historical themes. Portraying Poe’s friend and employer, N.P. Willis, Esau has performed “A Tribute to Edgar Allan Poe” since 1979 and is considered a Poe scholar. A native of St. Paul, MN he has also lived and performed in Southern California, Arizona, and Washington state.
The celebration will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, March 6, in Room 108, the O’Shaughnessy Room, in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center.
Everyone is invited and audience questions about Poe’s life and writing are encouraged.

The UST Libraries request your feedback on the following research database trials:
C19: The 19th Century – Trial ends March 14
The Nineteenth Century Index, a finding tool for 19th-century materials in multiple formats, enables faster, more comprehensive research of one of the most studied centuries. Discover 19th-century books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives.
The C19 Index draws on the strength of established indexes such as the 19th Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index, Poole’s Index and Periodicals Index Online to create integrated bibliographic coverage of more than 1.5 million books and official publications, 71,000 archival collections and 18.9 million articles published in more than 2,500 journals, magazines and newspapers.
The C19 Index now provides integrated access to 12 bibliographic indexes, including almost a million records from the ongoing digitization of British Periodicals Collections I and II, plus the new Dictionary of 19th-Century Journalism.
Call the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center reference desk, (651) 962-5001, for the password. Send comments to Talia Nadir. (trnadir@stthomas.edu)
Global Issues in Context – Trial ends March 19.
Global Issues in Context provides a portal-like link to country information. Information can be gathered several ways: searching – small search box; clicking on the boxes that give entry to health, business and economics, conflict and diplomacy, science and technology, the environment, society, government and politics, and women and children information.
Send comments to Linda Hulbert (lahulbert@stthomas.edu)
Global Market Briefings – Trial ends March 18.
GMB Research provides country-level data on business conditions in different countries, including cultural, legal and regulatory information.
Send comments to Marianne Hageman (mdhageman@stthomas.edu)
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A nonprofit community organization(Conceive Believe Achieve) and the Office of Institutional Diversity presents The African American History photo table top display as part of a Black History Month exhibit. We invite you to visit this exhibit in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library through March 6. The Black History exhibit allows the UST community to experience important African American historical sites around the country. The photographs and display were created by Dennis Behling and Nathan Thomas. The goal of this exhibit is to provide teachers and organizations with the tools for teaching and embracing diversity through history.
Please stop by and see the posters. They are in the reference room on the main floor. And there are a LOT of posters so you might wish to stop by over several breaks, or a lunch time or two, to see them all. There is a guide book at the reference desk if you would like more information about some of the posters.

There is also a questionnaire available if you would like to test your reading skills or historical knowledge. Copies of the questions will be near the posters and at the reference desk.

Posted by Phil, UST Senior, Philosophy and Catholic Studies

Some of the hardest questions in a Catholic’s life are questions of faith and vocation. How do these two interact? How do we incorporate one into the other, and what influence should faith have on my vocation and vice versa? Even more fundamental then this is the question, “To which vocation is God calling me?” The Radical Encounters event, sponsored by Campus Ministry and Catholic Studies, was geared toward asking (and answering!) these questions of faith and vocation.

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We invite you to visit the main floor of the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center during February and spend some time with the research posters prepared by students in History 116: African American History in Global Perspective. Posters will change throughout Black History Month to highlight these themes: civil rights, music, and athletics.

We invite you to visit the main floor of the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center during February and spend some time with the research posters prepared by students in History 116: African American History in Global Perspective. Posters will change throughout Black History Month to highlight these themes: civil rights, music, and athletics.

On Tuesday January 20th, we’ll show live coverage of the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States. Live streaming video from the web of the various inauguration ceremonies and parade will be running all day in rooms 102 and 208 of the Library.
Stop by any time during the day to watch the coverage.
Event Schedule from the Presidential Inauguration Committee:
Tuesday, January 20th – Inauguration Day
The President-elect and Vice President-elect and their families will participate in the traditional inaugural ceremonies and events. For the first time ever, the length of the National Mall will be open to those wishing to attend the swearing-in ceremony. Festivities will commence at 10 a.m. (9 AM Central time) on the west front of the U.S. Capitol and will include:
• Musical Selections: The United States Marine Band, followed by The San Francisco Boys Chorus and the San Francisco Girls Chorus
• Call to Order and Welcoming Remarks: Senator Dianne Feinstein
• Invocation: Dr. Rick Warren
• Musical Selection: Aretha Franklin
• Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden, Jr. will be sworn into office by Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, the Honorable John Paul Stevens
• Musical Selection: John Williams, composer/arranger with Itzhak Perlman, (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Gabriela Montero (piano) and Anthony McGill (clarinet)
• President-elect Barack H. Obama will take the Oath of Office, using President Lincoln’s Inaugural Bible, administered by the Chief Justice of the United States, the Honorable John G. Roberts, Jr.
• Inaugural Address
• Poem: Elizabeth Alexander
• Benediction: The Reverend Dr. Joseph E. Lowery
• The National Anthem: The United States Navy Band “Sea Chanters”
After President Obama gives his Inaugural Address, he will escort outgoing President George W. Bush to a departure ceremony before attending a luncheon in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall. The 56th Inaugural Parade will then make its way down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House with groups traveling from all over the country to participate.
Later that day, the Presidential Inaugural Committee will host ten official Inaugural Balls.

The UST Libraries invite all UST staff members to Open Houses on both the St. Paul and Minneapolis campuses. We would like to share the wealth of resources and services that are available to you! Learn about accessing online journals and e-books, requesting interlibrary loans, visiting special collections, media library materials, and discover our new leisure reading collection. If you have any kind of question about library services please drop in for as long or short of a time as you would like! And remember, you can make an appointment for a future one-on-one session with a librarian at any time during the year.
The Open Houses will be on Thursday, January 29th from 11:30 until 1:00 — in Room 102 in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library AND on the first floor of the Keffer Library in Minneapolis. Treats and beverages will be provided.
For more information please contact Jo Ann Toussaint, O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library, at 962-5409 or Andrea Koeppe in the Keffer Library. at 962-4647.