Last chance for shopping the book sale begins at Noon on Friday, April 15 – fill up a bag for five dollars!!
Thank you for visiting the Library Week Book Sale – we hope you found great treasures this week and had some fun!!
Visit the O’Shaughnessy Room each day during Library Week Monday – Friday, April 11- 15. We’re open for business from Noon to 6pm each day. This extremely popular Library Week event features books from a variety of categories, different every year! We are especially loaded with history and geography this year, along with our traditionally large literature selections.
On Monday, the first day of the sale, we always treat members of the University Community to a discount! All are welcome to shop the book sale and we hope you will find treasures to take home.
Hardcovers are $3.00 each paperbacks are $2.00. On Friday of Library Week, shop the $5-Bag sale!
The St. Thomas Guitar Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Joan Griffith, will perform from 1:45 to 2:30 p.m. on Friday, April 15 in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library in the Great Hall on second floor.
The Guitar Ensemble plays many styles of music, from classical to jazz, and some original music by St. Thomas students and faculty.
The setting is a beautiful one, all are welcome, and listeners may come and go throughout. Light refreshments will be served.
Donations from 2015 Food Drive – thank you!
The St. Thomas Libraries’ 8th Annual Food Drive begins during Library Week, Monday, April 11th, and will run until the end of the semester, May 31st, 2016. Since the Library’s first drive in 2009, the St. Thomas community has donated more than 3,700 pounds of food!
This year’s donation recipient will be Interfaith Action of Greater Saint Paul.
For library patrons who have overdue fines we will waive fines in exchange for canned food (1 can = $2 in fines).
We do, however, invite and encourage any and everyone to donate to this program, regardless of overdue fines.
Please bring your food donations to the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Circulation Desk beginning Monday of Library Week, April 11.
The food drive runs through the end of May.
Thank you very much!
The UST Libraries is pleased to announce the new subscription to Medici.TV. A streaming video music database covering over 1,500 films in high definition with the best of classical music from Baroque to Contemporary music, including: concerts, operas, ballets, archival documents, portraits of artists and composers, master classes, conductors in rehearsals. Over 100 live broadcast every year from leading concert halls and classical music festivals.
Access to these films through the Library Catalog CLICnet, or you can go through this link Medici.TV . To watch a performance click on the “picture.” .
If you have questions about this streaming film collection, please feel free to contact Cindy Badilla-Meléndez, Media/Music Resources Librarian at cbadillame@stthomas.edu
The UST Libraries is pleased to announce the new subscription to the Kanopy, a video streaming database with more than 26,000 documentaries and movies. subjects included are: film studies; arts; business; education; global studies; sciences and more. It provide access to more then a 1000 movies including foreign films. The entire collection is available via any computer on campus or from your home computer.
Access to these films through the Library Catalog CLICnet, or you can go through the above link and browse. To watch a film, click on the “title of film.” .
If you have questions about this streaming film collection, please feel free to contact Cindy Badilla-Meléndez, Media/Music Resources Librarian at cbadillame@stthomas.edu
Unfortunately, due to reasons out of the Library’s control, we won’t have access to the Database Criterion on Demand. If you were using links for any of the movies from the database, those won’t work anymore. Please if you are a faculty member and you were planning to use one of those titles please contact the Media/Music Librarian, Cindy Badilla-Melendez, so an alternative can be arranged. cbadillame@stthomas.edu
In the other hand, we will be having access to more than 26,000 documentaries and movies from Kanopy as of April 1.
In May we will have access to 200 movies from Swank Motion Pictures (Digital Campus Collection).
The UST Libraries is pleased to announce we have added a package of over 18,000 ebooks from Wiley to our online collection!
The collection contains titles in the following disciplines:
These ebooks can be accessed via Summon, making sure to limit to ebooks that are available full text online at UST.
If you are curious to browse the collection as a whole, you may do so at the Wiley Online Library (keep in mind that searches in Wiley’s interface may also bring up journal articles that UST does not currently subscribe to).
Feel free to contact Laura Hansen with any questions or for an individual title list in your discipline.
March is Women’s History Month and it is a perfect time to introduce you to a significant figure in the history of women at the University of St. Thomas.
St. Thomas was as you may recall was officially an all-male school at the undergraduate level until 1977. Its full-time faculty reflected that nature and was comprised wholly of priests and lay male instructors. On occasion, a woman (generally the wife of a male faculty member) would be hired to teach a specific course.
That changed when Dr. Mary Keeffe came to the College of St. Thomas in 1947 as an Assistant Professor of Biology. Originally from Rhode Island, Keeffe knew little about the college when she heard about the job opening. When she discovered there were no women on the faculty, she was initially skeptical that she would be hired. But when she relayed her doubts to Fr. Vincent Flynn (president of the College of St. Thomas at the time) during her interview, it is said that he thought it over for a minute and then replied “Why, I’m not so sure. Maybe it would be a good idea.”
Dr. Mary Keeffe with the Biology Department, 1951
Working in a single-sex environment was not unusual for Dr. Keeffe. She was one of the first lay women to receive a bachelors degree from Providence College in Rhode Island. Plus, she received her M.A. from Columbia University and Ph.D. from Fordham University, both institutions which were all-male at the undergraduate level at that time.
Dr. Keeffe taught at St. Thomas for five years before returning to Rhode Island in 1952. For the remainder of her career, she served as a professor of biology at Rhode Island College.
To find out more about the history of the University of St. Thomas, visit the University Archives webpage.
On Saturday March 12, all ProQuest products will be unavailable from 9 p.m. and will last for 8 hours.
During this time, access to the ProQuest products listed below will not be available, and users will be redirected to a web page explaining the scheduled maintenance.
Research databases
Dissertations
Research tools
Bibliographic and catalog enrichment services