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O’Shaughnessy Frey Library adds new stained glass window medallion

For only the second time since the original library was completed in 1959, we have added a new stained glass “medallion” window. This year, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the UST English department and UST Libraries collaborated on the design and production of a window celebrating the classic novel. (The first new window, added in 2009, was dedicated to Zora Neale Hurston, author of “Their Eyes Were Watching God.”) Both windows were designed and created by the Conrad Pickel studio in Vero Beach, FL, the same glassmakers who created the original windows (all of which can be seen here.)

A Go Fund Me campaign raised the money needed to produce the Frankenstein window, and a celebration was held on December 4th, 2018, at which students, faculty and staff met to read portions of the novel. The newest medallions (hanging in windows on the first floor, west side of the O’Shaughnessy Frey Library, overlooking the quad) are intended to honor authors of color and women – more windows will be forthcoming.

December 19, 2018 by

Libraries, News & Events, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library, Special Collections and Archives

Tales from the Archives — The Cigar Bowl

Did you know that a St. Thomas football team once played in a New Year’s Day bowl game? With Frank Deig as their coach, the 1948 football team finished their season with a 7-1-1 record, winning the MIAC championship. The team’s stellar record led to their selection to compete against Missouri Valley Teacher’s College in the Cigar Bowl in Tampa, Florida on New Years Day, 1949.

Aquin, December 17, 1948

The team boarded a train for Florida at St. Paul’s Union Depot the day after Christmas. Hundreds of Tommie supporters followed the team to Tampa, most making the 35 hour, 1600 mile trip by car or train. But a group of 21 students who were members of the Air National Guard took a special military flight Florida and were housed at the McDill Army Air Force base before the game.

Missouri Valley was a heavy favorite to win the contest having lost only one game in their previous 42 games. That prediction seemed to be coming true with the Tommies heading to the halftime locker room trailing 13 – 0. But, the team rallied in the second half to end the game in in 13 – 13 tie. You can view film clips of the game and hear stories from some of the players in this video.

Frank Deig and Jack Salscheider with the Cigar Bowl trophy, 1949.

Several players from the Cigar Bowl team went on to play professional football in the NFL. Jack Salscheider played for the New York Giants; Jim “Popcorn” Brandt played with the Pittsburgh Steelers; quarterback Ed Krowka signed with the Detroit Lions; Don Simonson played for the Los Angeles Rams. Jim White turned down an offer from the New York Giants to attend medical school.

To read more about the 1948 football team and their trip to the Cigar Bowl, search the Historic University Publications database.

December 12, 2018 by Ann Kenne

An outward facing hand with words Racism Stops with Me along with four featured books from the library

Libraries

Library resources support the Action Plan to Combat Racism

The University of St. Thomas Libraries are deeply supportive of the Action Plan to Combat Racism and make the campus welcoming to all. As we ponder ways that we can support and enhance campuswide efforts, we first think of insuring that the libraries themselves are safe and welcoming places. We also work from one of our strengths: our collections, which represent the voices and perspectives of all, including those who have been silenced in the past.

If you were present at the all campus meeting one month ago, and heard Dean Vischer’s comments illustrating the many facets of structural racism in the United States and Minnesota, you might have noted that he was citing extensively data from Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Revised edition with a new foreword by Cornel West, New Press, 2012.) The University Libraries own several print copies of the book, as well as an electronic edition (usable by three readers at the same time.) Alexander recently wrote an article for the New York Times (where she is a regular columnist) in which she describes the implications of certain sentencing reforms which may be worse than the systems they intend to reform.(“The Newest Jim Crow”, New York times, 11/8/18.)

Other titles that support research in this area include:

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. (Richard Rothstein.)
OSF Library: E185.61 .R8185 2017
Author presentation (video)

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery & the Making of American Capitalism (ebook.) (Edward E. Baptist.)
Available online through St. Thomas Libraries
Author presentation (video)

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. (Carol Anderson.)
OSF Library: E185.61 .A5438 2016
Author presentation (video)

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. (Ibram X. Kendi.)
OSF Library: E185.61 .K358 2016
Author presentation (video)

White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race, 10^th Anniversary Edition (ebook.) (Ian Haney Lopez.)
Available online through St. Thomas Libraries
Law Library: KF4755 .H36 2006

Call for Change: The Medicine Way of American Indian History, Ethos, and Reality (ebook.) (Donald L. Fixico.)
Available online through St. Thomas Libraries
Author presentation (video)

The Libraries will be providing suggestions for readings that connect with the subjects covered by Tuesday Teach-Ins (sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences)

December 5, 2018 by

News & Events

Study Night – Monday Dec 3, 2018 – 7-10pm

It’s Study Night in the Library!!

Tommies are invited to spend a productive evening of study together in the Great Hall of the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library – bring along that assignment that has been hanging over your head – meet with consultants from the Writing Center, MaRC math tutors, enjoy some healthy snacks, take away some fun and helpful library swag, sign up for a free five-minute chair massage, meet with Karen, our motivational coach and get some help with homework planning, ask the librarians about getting those citations done correctly, find proper resources for your papers . . . and more!!

We hope you will join us – procrastinators especially welcome! You can do this!

Monday, December 3, 2018 7-10pm!

November 30, 2018 by

News & Events

Winter Lights December event

We had a wonderful kick off to our Winter Lights events in early November when we heard about some of the stressors that come with wintertime and heard about coping strategies, and crowdsourced some ideas for local places to visit and things to do. We’ve collected all the ideas into one great library guide to surviving winter! We then decorated light jars so that we could all bring a little light back to our living space.

We hope you’ll join us at our next event on Tuesday, December 4. We’ll discuss ways to cope with holiday stresses and find joy this season. You’ll also get to make your own water light to take home.

“Winter Lights” is a four part series for students, faculty and staff to help you survive and thrive in the cold dark days of winter. Each session has a different theme includes a speaker, a hands-on activity, and a chance to brainstorm and share ideas to find light and joy in the winter. Those ideas are collected and shared on the library winter survival guide as the series progresses.

All are welcome at these events, whether you can make it to only one event or to all four, we hope to see you there! All events are held in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey library in the Leather room (108) from 3:30 – 4:30 pm. Future event dates are:

Dec. 4: Brighten your holidays
Jan. 8: Moving into a new year
Feb. 12: Growing into spring

November 30, 2018 by

Archbishop Ireland Library, Charles J. Keffer Library, Libraries, Media/Music Collections, Music, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library

Musicals

Experience the magic of musicals with the Music and Media Collections! We’re located on the first floor of the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library to the right of the Main Circulation desk.

If you want a close-up look at the history of musicals in America, check out Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy. This feature-length documentary charts the significant contribution to Broadway by famous Jewish composers like Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, and the Gershwins. It also features classic performances by Barbara Streisand, Joel Grey, and Nathan Lane of this uniquely American art form.
ML1711.8 .N3 B76 2012 DVD

Go on a thrilling ride with My Fair Lady, Lerner and Loewe’s adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s original play. The film stars a young Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle, a penniless flower girl in the dirty streets of London taken in by Professor Higgins for the sake of a linguistic experiment. Don’t miss this Academy Award-winning feature musical!
M1500 L64 M9 2004 DVD

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) is a remarkable French musical in which every word of dialogue is sung! Catherine Deneuve stars in this stylish film about the life and loves of a young woman working in an umbrella boutique in Normandy. It’s a film full of romance and heart.
PN1997 .P376 2004 DVD

This is only a selection! We have titles such as Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd with Angela Lansbury, The Music Man, Roger and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! and many others!

By Sarah Pavey

November 27, 2018 by

Archbishop Ireland Library, Charles J. Keffer Library, Database Highlights & Trials, Libraries, News & Events, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library, Theology

Ireland Library offers new database free to alumni.

The Archbishop Ireland Memorial Library offers the University of St. Thomas and The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity alumni free access to the ATLASerials for ALUM Database.

ATLASerials for ALUM is an ecumenical database that provides access to key articles, book reviews, and essays found in more than 450 theological journals representing the varied fields within the discipline of religious studies and includes a significant amount of scholarship related to Roman Catholicism. It comprises content from over 30 countries and in 16 languages.

ATLASerials for ALUM contains merged and new content previously contained in the Catholic Periodical and Literature Index for Alums and the ATLA Religion Database for Alums. Alumni who used the former databases must request the most recent web address in order to access the new combined database. New users also need to request access to this service.

Please contact Betsy Polakowski for more information: ejpolakowski@stthomas.edu.

November 19, 2018 by

Libraries, News & Events, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library, Special Collections and Archives

Tales from the Archives — St. Thomas & the First World War

On this Veteran’s Day, which marks 100 years after the Armistice was declared for the First World War, it is fitting to reflect on the role St. Thomas played in the war. Nearly 900 students, faculty, staff and alumni of the College of St. Thomas and St. Thomas Military Academy served during the conflict. Many took up commissions as officers in the United States Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. Others served in the the fledgling aviation corps, the ambulance corps or as members of Canadian and British military units. At least 20 men with connections to St. Thomas lost their lives during while serving their country — some on the battlefield and some from the Spanish Influenza outbreak.

A group of St. Thomas alums who served during WWI, Kaydet, 1918.

During the autumn of 1918, the College of St. Thomas served as a site for one of the United States War Department’s units of the Student Army Training Corps (S.A.T.C.). The S.A.T.C utilized the facilities, equipment, and faculty of colleges and universities across the country to select and train officer candidates and provide technical and vocational training for recruits.

The St. Thomas Student Army Training Corps, 1918.

A barracks building was built on campus (near the site of the current Anderson Student Center) in the fall of 1918 to house the 250 men in the program. The building was occupied for only a short time as the S.A.T.C. unit was demobilized in December 1918 after the armistice was declared.

Armory and S.A.T.C. barracks, 1918.

For more information on the history of St. Thomas during this period, search the Kaydet yearbooks and Purple and Gray magazine in the Historic University Publications database.

November 11, 2018 by Ann Kenne

Screenshot of error stating items cannot be requested

CLICsearch

Requesting resources in CLICsearch from another CLIC Library is not currently functioning – RESOLVED

UPDATE 11/11/2018 @ 11:00 pm CST: The issue has been resolved

Requesting resources in CLICsearch from another CLIC Library is not currently functioning. Upon submission, it is serving the error: “Failed to place a request on the resource. Please contact the library.”

Library staff can still place the request for CLIC materials for you via the backend of our system. For now, contact a circulation desk to request an item be requested from a CLIC Library on your behalf:

O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library
651-962-5494

Charles J. Keffer Library
651-962-4642

Archbishop Ireland Memorial Library
651-962-5450

Schoenecker Law Library
651-962-4900

circulation@stthomas.edu

Please include as much information as possible, including title, barcode, your name, UST ID#, and CLICsearch URL.

Note: Requesting UST materials through CLICsearch is still functional.

We will update this space as the vendor provides details about a fix.

November 6, 2018 by Greg Argo

Poster for the Winter Lights series. Text: Winter Lights, a four part series for students, faculty and staff to survive and thrive in the cold dark days of winter. OSF Library - 3:30 - 4:30, Nov. 8, Dec. 4, Jan. 8, and Feb. 12. Featuring a speaker, idea sharing and an activity!

News & Events, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library

Winter Lights events series

This weekend, Daylight Savings Time ends with the setting of our clocks back an hour. For many of us, this marks at least a psychological beginning to winter, with its shorter days and fewer hours of light. That lack of daylight, coupled with colder weather, and the stress of holidays can make winter difficult, even for those who love the season. With that in mind, the library is offering a 4-part “Winter Lights” series to bring warmth and light to the season and to help us find ways to survive and thrive in the winter.

Winter Lights: a four part series for students, faculty and staff to help you survive and thrive in the cold dark days of winter.

Each session will have a different theme and will feature a speaker, a hands-on activity so you can bring something back with you, and a chance to brainstorm ideas of how to find light and joy in the winter. We will be collecting those ideas and sharing them here on the blog as the series progresses. Come a little early and we’ll have some cider and snacks for you to pick up on your way in!

All are welcome at these events, whether you can make it to only one event or to all four, we hope to see you there!

November’s event: Prepare for the winter days to come

At our first Winter Lights event, the theme is preparing for the winter days to come. Staff from CAPS will present on the mental and physical effects of shorter days and less daylight. They’ll talk about coping strategies and provide a light therapy demonstration. We will have an opportunity for everyone there to share their own favorite coping strategies and our activity will be making a lantern so you can bring some light home with you.

Winter Lights: Prepare for the winter days ahead
Thursday, November 8, 2018
O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library, room 108 (the “Leather Room”)
3:30 – 4:30 pm, light snacks starting at 3:15

November 1, 2018 by

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