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Have Fun with a Little Help from the Library This Weekend

It’s Friday! Though this first week was a short one, I bet you are ready to relax a little bit this weekend after all the back-to-school excitement. Well, guess what… the library can help you with that, too! Sure, we are all about helping you academically, but we like fun, even if we don’t always look like it! :O)

Feel like going out, but either don’t have a car or don’t want to give up the killer parking space you scored? Come check out a bike from the library! Whether you feel like cruising it around on the river path, exploring The Twin Cities, grabbing something to eat, or snagging some forgotten essentials, the bikes are free and come equipped with both a helmet and a bike lock. These go fast, so check on availability.

Don’t feel like going anywhere? How about staying in and watching a few movies? While most of our streaming movie sites consist of documentaries and educational stuff (which can be just as fun), we have lots of Hollywood movies and t.v. shows available for check out from our Media Resources Collection, currently located behind the Circulation Desk (but soon to move to the new space being built out on the first floor across from the coffee shop). Go in and browse the collection old school (but be aware their hours differ slightly from OSF’s regular hours), or check out some of their offerings online. Whether you want to laze about re-watching the first few seasons of Breaking Bad or want to feel smart and impress your roommate by taking in a few TED Talks, the Media Resources Collection can be the place for you.

September 6, 2013 by Kari Petryszyn

Libraries, Services

Welcome Back, Students!

I know we say this every year, but it’s true…we missed you! Contrary to popular belief, we library staff are not content merely surrounded by piles of moldering books. No way! What we really love is helping you, and connecting you with the content, resources, and services you need to succeed!

Daniel J. Boorstin wrote in Democracy and Its Discontents, “Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know,” and that is something we take seriously here at the library. Outside of the classroom, this is where you come to find out what else you don’t know, so when you get stuck, don’t be embarrassed to ask us for help! Whether you visit it us in person or prefer to connect via phone, chat, email, text, or Twitter, we are waiting for you!

September 4, 2013 by Kari Petryszyn

Archbishop Ireland Library, Circulation, News & Events

It’s time to get rollin’!

Dear Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity faculty and staff —

UST Libraries are changing the lending policy that governs how long you may borrow items from the circulating collection. On Monday, July 15, 2013 the fixed end-of-term due date is changing to a rolling due date of 120 days. We are pleased to make this change that ensures you and your colleagues will always have library materials for at least 4 months before needing to return or renew them. For more details about the change and its restrictions, please read the footnotes below*.

If you have any questions or concerns about this change, please contact us at IrelandLibrary@stthomas.edu.

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* The library reserves the right to recall library materials when they are needed for course reserves. If there are no other users waiting for the item, you can renew the item for another 120 days. The overdue fine and lost book fee structure remains the same. Overdue fines do not accrue on a daily basis. Items are considered lost when they are not returned within a month. A charge of $65 per item is applied to your library account for lost materials. The library reserves the right to charge a higher fee when the cost to replace an item exceeds $65. Loans from other collections (CLIC, MTLA, or ILL) have loan lengths of varying lengths; please check your online library account or contact library staff to confirm when your items are due.

June 27, 2013 by clborchardt

Archbishop Ireland Library, Circulation, News & Events

Answer to Grad Student Prayer: Longer Loan Periods

Dear Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity Graduate Students, lay and seminarians —

Have you ever requested the intersession of Saint Jerome, patron saint of libraries, for more time with library materials? Struggled with the moral dilemma of whether to return library books with maxed out renewals even though you know you cannot check it out right away because someone else is waiting for it … you need it just a little while longer? Your Master’s thesis is so close to being done!

The libraries have heard your cries, graduate students. Your due dates are getting longer!

Hallelujah!

Starting Monday, July 15, 2013, all graduate students will be able to borrow library books from UST’s circulating collections* for 120 days with an additional 120 day renewal if no other requests are waiting.**

That’s a whopping total of 240 days! It’s more than double the time of the previous total of 98 days (42 day initial loan + 28 day renewal period + another 28 day renewal period). Instead of having a book for only one semester, you can have it for two terms!

The overdue fine and lost book fee structure remains the same. Overdue fines do not accrue on a daily basis. Items are considered lost when they are note returned within a month. A charge of $65 per item is applied to your library account for lost materials. The library reserves the right to charge a higher fee when the cost to replace an item exceeds $65.

If you have any comments or questions about this change in borrowing policy or how Ireland Library can serve you, please contact us at IrelandLibrary@stthomas.edu.

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* Loans from other library collections (CLIC, MTLA, ILL) have loan periods of varying lengths; please check your online library account or contact library staff to confirm when your items are due.
** The library reserves the right to recall at any time for items needed for course reserve lists.

June 27, 2013 by clborchardt

Archbishop Ireland Library, Circulation, Kudos, News & Events, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library

UST Libraries Food for Fines (2013 Results)

The O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library and the Archbishop Ireland Memorial Library wrapped up their annual Food for Fines drive this past week.

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UST Library patrons donated a total of 699 lbs. of canned food. Donations will go to the Emergency Food Shelf at the Saint Paul Area Council of Churches.

Library patrons were able to donate canned food in exchange for the waiving of overdue fines (1 can = $2).

Over the past 4 years we have donated a total of 2,417 lbs. of food.

Previous recipients were the Franciscan Brothers of Peace and Francis Basket Food Shelf.

Thank you to all who participated in this semester’s drive!

June 4, 2013 by

Art, Database Highlights & Trials, Services

Featured Librarian: Kate Burke

It’s time for the third in our Featured Librarian series!

This week I spoke to Kate Burke, a reference and student experience librarian at the St Paul campus. You’ll see her in a wide variety of classes as well as heading up many of the fun activities that happen around the libraries. Here is what she had to say:

What departments are you a liaison for?
I am responsible for Art History, Philosophy, Air Force ROTC, Mathematics, Physics, Geography, and Geographic Information Systems and Computer and Information Sciences.
What resource – in your topic area – do you think is the coolest?
I love ARTstor
What’s one cool thing that resource can do?
ARTstor can be used by all students to help them create awesome presentation using fabulous artwork

Getting to know Kate…

What’s your favorite flavor of ice cream?
Haagen-Dazs Vanilla Chocolate Chip.
Who is your favorite author?
I love Jane Austen and Sue Grafton.
Do you prefer the Minnesota Twins or the St Paul Saints?
As a native St. Paulite, I am going with the Saints.
Is there something random about you that you’d like us to know?
I make a wicked Angel Food cake. There is no box involved. It is completely homemade. All my children ask me to make it for their birthdays.

Kate may be contacted by email, or by phone at (651) 962-5027. See more information about her on the library website.

May 22, 2013 by

Database Highlights & Trials, News & Events, Political Science, Services

Featured Librarian: Linda Hulbert

It’s time to feature another UST Librarian! Linda Hulbert wears many hats around UST Libraries; as both a subject liaison and the Associate Director of Collection Management and Services, she oversees quite a few resources. Let’s see what she has to say about her favorites…

What departments are you a liaison for? Political science and General
What resource – in your topic area – do you think is the coolest?
OK! I love The New York Times Historical.
What’s one cool thing that resource can do?
I don’t know that it’s the best resource for my students who work in the area – but I do know that it is so cool to have current events and see when the first time certain terms were used – like suicide bomber. I love the fact that you can look at how the country was looking at events contemporaneously – like the Civil War. For my political science research, I also really like the papers in CQ Researcher.

Getting to know Linda:

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What’s your favorite flavor of ice cream?
Anything with chocolate, fudge, and caramel
Who is your favorite author?
I have to many: William Styron for Sophie’s Choice; Graham Greene for Quiet American; Maeve Binchy for wonderful warm fiction; Elizabeth George – Lynley mysteries; Rushdie – Enchantress of Florence.
Do you prefer the Minnesota Twins or the St Paul Saints?
Neither. Baseball, meh – now let’s talk about the Packers!
Is there something random about you that you’d like us to know?
I have a one year old grandson, and one on the way – so fun!

Linda can be contacted for research assistance or classroom sessions by email, or by phone at (651) 962-5016. See more information about her on the library website.

May 15, 2013 by

Business & Economics, Database Highlights & Trials, Services

Featured Librarian: Marianne Hageman

Welcome to new series here on the blog: the Featured Librarian!

We figured it would be fun for everyone to know who we are and, along the way, learn a bit about what we love about the place we work. First up is Marianne Hageman, a business librarian who works mainly on the St Paul campus.

Here are some answers she gave in a recent interview:

What departments are you a liaison for?
I’m a liaison librarian for business, specializing in (but not limited to) marketing resources. I’m also liaison for the advertising and PR side of COJO.
What resource – in your topic area – do you think is the coolest?
That’s hard, since we have so many cool resources. But I’ll give a huzzah to MRI+ Mediamark Reporter, the demographics database.
What’s one cool thing that resource can do?
MRI+ can give you information on who buys what, and then ties that to different characteristics, including what magazines people read and the kinds of television programs they watch. There’s a separate section for teen data, and it’s pretty cool (or creepy, depending on how you look at it) to see what teens like to eat for breakfast.
Who is your favorite author?
I can’t limit it to just one! A favorite author from childhood is Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of the “Anne of Green Gables” books and so much more. She’s a great comfort read. A favorite British author, recently deceased, is Diana Wynne Jones, who wrote “Howl’s Moving Castle” (made into a film by Hayao Miyazaki (it’s a great film, but the book is better.) A favorite Minnesota author is Lois McMaster Bujold; I’m working on reading all of her books this year. If you ask me tomorrow, I might have a different list.

Marianne can be contacted for research assistance or classroom sessions by email, or by phone at (651) 962-5404. See more information about her, and schedule a research consultation, on the library website.

May 8, 2013 by

Archbishop Ireland Library, Circulation, Library Week, News & Events, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library

Do you have overdue fines? Pay them with Food!

Have you ever returned a library book so late that you got fined for having it so long?

It’s okay. We know you really needed it to write that awesome-possum paper on <insert your favorite major here>. That’s why you’re here … to dig into it more, right?!?

2013 food for fines poster

The UST Libraries is holding its 5^th Annual Food for Fines Drive again this year. It kicks-off during Library Week, April 15-19, 2013, and run until the end of May.

Now you can pay down those fines* with currency in your pantry and not currency in your pocket (Yeah, we know it’s mostly lint. Thanks for not sharing.)

April 2, 2013 by clborchardt

Circulation, News & Events

Requesting CLIC books over Spring Break? Don’t use the Bag function!

Your trusty library circulation staff have isolated a problem in CLICnet with selecting pickup locations when placing holds using the “Book Bag” function. Please avoid using this button until further notice.

Instead we recommend using the Request button on individual book pages (see below). Through this path you will be able to select where you want to pickup your book (or CD or …)

It will be putzy if you have a long booklist you want to get your hands on and we apologize. Staff at the library consortia office are working with the vendor to get the Book Bag working again.

If you have questions about where your book is, when it will arrive, or anything else, please drop us a line at circulation@stthomas.edu, give us a call, or stop by and chat with us!

O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library: 651-962-5494
Keffer Library: 651-962-4642
Ireland Library: 651-962-5450

March 22, 2013 by clborchardt

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The UST Libraries is holding its 5th Annual Food for Fines Drive again this year. It kicks-off during Library Week, April 15-19, 2013, and run until the end of May.

The UST Libraries is holding its 5^th Annual Food for Fines Drive again this year. It kicks-off during Library Week, April 15-19, 2013, and run until the end of May.