You are invited to stop by and browse our collection of New Books next time you are in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library. Come to the southeast corner of the Reference Room on the main floor and you’ll find the space has been freshened with colorful paint, comfortable easy chairs, carpets and coffee tables. New books that have been recently added to our collection are on the nearby shelves and can be perused and sampled with ease.
To skim new titles before coming to the library, visit the library web page and click on New Titles in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library.
Hope to see you soon! If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to call the Reference Desk at 651-962-5001.
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You are invited to stop by and browse our collection of New Books next time you are in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library. Come to the southeast corner of the Reference Room on the main floor and you’ll find the space has been freshened with colorful paint, comfortable easy chairs, carpets and coffee tables. New books that have been recently added to our collection are on the nearby shelves and can be perused and sampled with ease.
To skim new titles before coming to the library, visit the library web page and click on New Titles in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library.
Hope to see you soon! If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to call the Reference Desk at 651-962-5001.
Have you assigned on-line materials in your classes? Have you accessed on-line materials placed on reserve to do your classwork for your instructors? What is fair use? Have you been in violation of copyright laws? Catch a glimpse of this complicated issue and read about a recent lawsuit described in the June 27 on-line Chronicle of Higher Education.
O’Shaughnessy-Frey reference librarian Marianne Hageman invites us to read about portable and collaborative uses of space developed by the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Institute of Design. She points out that in two recent posts from The Shifted Librarian weblog, Jenny Levine writes:
“The point is to bring spaces into libraries that let people collaborate around the content that already exists in our buildings, add new content to the mix, mash it all up to create something new, and share it with the community. Rinse. Repeat. It’s a way to connect people with the physical world and help them make sense of it by interacting with and changing it. It’s another instance where the library adds value to the equation (the same way it does with books and now games), offering an experience you can’t replicate at home, borne of the community. TJ, the programming wizard behind the curtain, called it a “human interface environment,” rather than a “human computer interaction.” It takes the focus off technolgoy and puts it back onto the people.”
If you wish to read more, please see Thinkering Spaces in Libraries, part one and part two.
On June 24th 1997 the United States Air Force released a report on the 1947 Roswell Incident stating that the alleged UFO was in fact a military balloon and the alien bodies were life sized dummies. We may never know for sure what really happened on that day in 1947 but what we can be sure is that the incident still resonates through pop culture to this day.
While the term ‘flying saucer’ came into common parlance after that event there was another term for UFO’s that allied pilots coined during World War II that did not quite capture the collective imagination in the same way. Can you give me the two word phrase for a mysterious airborne phenomenon that I am looking for?
If you can let me know and the ‘prize’ for a correct answer is me not reporting your name to the government.
Last week I wanted to know the momentous event in Berlin on June 12th 1987 that Ronald Reagan made even more momentous with his challenge to Mikhail Gorbachev to ‘tear down this wall.’ The ‘official’ answer is Ronald Reagan was commemorating the 750th anniversary of Berlin. I thought I was being very clever to trick people into thinking that it was the anniversary of John Kennedy’s momentous ‘ich bin ein berliner’ speech, but the joke was on me. It turns out that Kennedy did make that speech on June 12th because he too was speaking on the anniversary date of Berlin. The campus historians who knew at least one of the correct answers last week were
Jan Pinkerton
Peter Erickson
Matthew Koenen
Long story short I need to take a little bit more of my own advice about conducting better research that I dish out to you all.
Thanks as always for playing!
All are invited to the rotunda area of the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library main floor to see the posters created by students in the Health and Human Performance Department. These posters were made by senior Health Promotion–Science and Health Promotion Majors as part of their PHED 449 Seminar course requirements. The posters showcase the research the students conducted over the semester and were included in the Bush Foundation supported Inquiry at the UST poster session this spring. Come and enjoy – the posters will be here until early June.
All are invited to the rotunda area of the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library main floor to see the posters created by students in the Health and Human Performance Department. These posters were made by senior Health Promotion–Science and Health Promotion Majors as part of their PHED 449 Seminar course requirements. The posters showcase the research the students conducted over the semester and were included in the Bush Foundation supported Inquiry at the UST poster session this spring. Come and enjoy – the posters will be here until early June.
You may wish to print off a complete listing of library hours so you will not miss opportunities to do that last minute studying for your finals.
As part of their celebration of the state’s sesquicentennial, the librarians at the Minnesota Historical Society are blogging about their selection of the greatest 150 Minnesota books. “All works chosen as the 150 Best Minnesota Books will have been published in some recognizable form, and will either be about some aspect of the state or will have been written by a Minnesota author. We define Minnesota authors the same way we do for inclusion into the MHS library collections: the author will either have been born in Minnesota or will have spent enough time here to have been influenced by the culture or to have influenced the culture.”
Check it out and applaud or argue with their selections!
This week in 1950 a very (and I mean very) controversial self help book was first published which to this day sparks heated discussions all over the world. Please give me the author and the name of his book. And if you choose to do it anonymously I completely understand.
If you want to experience this book first hand then try finding it on the stacks of the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library. I do not want to give away the title but the call number is RZ415 .H82 1950. If you need assistance finding this book or any other book at the UST libraries please contact your favorite librarian.
Last week I wondered which famous landmark to this day retains what is said to be the longest held phone number in New York City and was the inspiration behind Glen Miller’s song PEnnsylvania 6-5000. The answer is The Hotel Pennsylvania across from Madison Square Garden in midtown Manhattan.
Congratulations to campus jazz enthusiasts Anne Kenne and Peter Erickson for playing along!
Thank you very much!