The fourth film of the Tournees Festival, an event that presents French films weekly through November 3 on campus, will be Persepolis. This animated film that begins during the Islamic Revolution, tells the poignant coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl. Clever and fearless, Marjane outsmarts local “social guardians.” The film will be shown at 7pm in the O’Shaughnessy Educational Center auditorium on the university’s St. Paul campus. A panel discussion will follow the film.
Read more about this film and also the final film of the series, “Le Voyage du ballon rouge” (Flight of the red balloon), in the October 28 issue of Bulletin Today.

Dan Gjelten, director of UST Libraries, recommends reading this paper: Library as Sacred Place: Applying the Psychology of Religion to the Academic Library as Sanctified Space and Implications for Measurement and Evaluation, written by Trudi Bellardo Hahn and Heather Lea Jackson; College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, USA. Your comments are welcome.

A third entry in the 2008 Tournées Film Festival will be shown on Tuesday evening, October 21, at 7:00 pm in the O’Shaughnessy Educational Center. L’Origine de la tendresse et autres contes is a series of short films including: My Mother, Story of an immigration: The story of the director’s mother who left Algeria in 1956 to reunite with her husband in Paris; L’origine de la tendresse : Elise is a quiet, solitary woman who works as a museum attendant. Nothing really happens in her life. And in a life in which nothing happens, no moment is devoid of meaning. The other shorts include: Pen-pusher, One Voice, One Vote, The Last Day, and Kitchen.

A third entry in the 2008 Tournées Film Festival will be shown on Tuesday evening, October 21, at 7:00 pm in the O’Shaughnessy Educational Center. L’Origine de la tendresse et autres contes is a series of short films including: My Mother, Story of an immigration: The story of the director’s mother who left Algeria in 1956 to reunite with her husband in Paris; L’origine de la tendresse : Elise is a quiet, solitary woman who works as a museum attendant. Nothing really happens in her life. And in a life in which nothing happens, no moment is devoid of meaning. The other shorts include: Pen-pusher, One Voice, One Vote, The Last Day, and Kitchen.

The Student Sustainability Committee (SSC) has provided a second printer in the first floor computer area of the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library. The printer is labeled “Student Sustainability Committee’s ‘Already-Used Paper’ Printer.”
This printer will allow students to print on already-used paper and to give back already printed-on paper for other students to use. Recycling will still be available in the library for printed sheets with confidential information.
Used paper is ideal for printing anything that does not need to be formal or turned in for a class.
When printing from one of the computers in the area, select the printer titled “LIB 101-Already Used” on your print screen before clicking print. If you have printed something in error or you do not mind giving the paper back to be used by another student, you can help sustainability efforts by placing used paper in the “Instant Recycling Paper” box near by the printer.
Another box is located near the printer and paper collection box for comments about the printer, recycling or other issues of sustainability at St. Thomas. These comments will be collected by the SSC for consideration.
This trial run will continue for the remainder of the semester and, if successful, will be considered for continuation.
The SSC thanks Lori Christianson and Deanna Kuhns for their help in getting this project started.

The Student Sustainability Committee (SSC) has provided a second printer in the first floor computer area of the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library. The printer is labeled “Student Sustainability Committee’s ‘Already-Used Paper’ Printer.”
This printer will allow students to print on already-used paper and to give back already printed-on paper for other students to use. Recycling will still be available in the library for printed sheets with confidential information.
Used paper is ideal for printing anything that does not need to be formal or turned in for a class.
When printing from one of the computers in the area, select the printer titled “LIB 101-Already Used” on your print screen before clicking print. If you have printed something in error or you do not mind giving the paper back to be used by another student, you can help sustainability efforts by placing used paper in the “Instant Recycling Paper” box near by the printer.
Another box is located near the printer and paper collection box for comments about the printer, recycling or other issues of sustainability at St. Thomas. These comments will be collected by the SSC for consideration.
This trial run will continue for the remainder of the semester and, if successful, will be considered for continuation.
The SSC thanks Lori Christianson and Deanna Kuhns for their help in getting this project started.

This year, as the we continue to plan for the future, we will focus on assessment. Our major effort in this area will be to conduct the LibQual survey of library service quality. We are asking a random sample of the UST community to provide feedback about our services. This highly regarded survey has been completed over 1,000 times at 500 college and university libraries and our data will be compared to this group of libraries as a benchmark of our quality.
On Monday, October 20, approximately 2,000 students, faculty and staff will be sent the link to the survey. Those who respond will be eligible for a drawing for a $50 UST Bookstore gift certificate.
If you receive the e-mail link to the survey, we ask that you please take the time (15 to 20 minutes) to let us know about your experiences with the UST Libraries. Your responses will influence the direction of the libraries in the near future. Visit the LibQual web site if you wish more information about the survey.

You are all invited to attend the second French film in a series of five. This Tuesday, October 14, you’ll see Le Scaphandre et le papillon (The diving Bell and the butterfly). The story: Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby suffered a stroke at the age of 43 that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently describes the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he only visits in his mind.
This film, subtitled in English, will be shown at 7:00 pm in the O’Shaughnessy Educational Center auditorium. For more information on the 2008 Tournées Film Festival you may wish to visit FACE (French American Cultural Exchange).