Congratulations to our very own Dani Roach on her art exhibit that opens this weekend at Groveland Gallery! See The Star Tribune for more details.
Get prepped and get out there to support your candidate in the upcoming presidential Election!
Who: You & as many neighbors as you can get to go
What: MN Caucus
When: Tonight at 7 p.m., though officials recommend you get there at 6:30!
Where: Depends on where you live and which party’s caucus you plan to attend.
Why: #TommiesVote
How: It’s easy
Thursday, February 25th, you are invited to the Secretary of State’s Address on the State of Elections at the Wellstone Center at Neighborhood House in St. Paul from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. to learn about new voter outreach efforts and to hear how you can get involved in 2016.
After the address, representatives from the two major parties invite you to attend a workshop from 12:50 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. to learn how to participate in each party’s precinct caucus process. Learn more and RSVP.
For more information about the upcoming caucus and the 2016 elections, check out the libraries’ guide to the 2016 General Election.
I’m pleased to report that the UST libraries subscription of the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research is now live!
Published monthly by the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, JBMR® contains “original manuscripts, reviews, and special articles in basic and clinical science relevant to bone, muscle and mineral metabolism. Manuscripts are published on the biology and physiology of bone and muscle, relevant systems biology topics (e.g. osteoimmunology), and the pathophysiology and treatment of osteoporosis, sarcopenia and other disorders of bone and mineral metabolism.*”
Even more importantly – it comes highly recommended by our UST faculty!
In other words, we hope it will be a great new resource for the many anatomy researchers here at UST, as our health and wellness programs continue to thrive.
UST’s subscription goes back to 1997, and you can look for issues in our A-Z list of databases, linked to in subject-related research guides (like the Health and Human Performance department’s guide), or ask any UST Librarian for assistance.
Happy researching!
*from the ASBMR website
News & Events, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library, Special Collections and Archives
Tales from the Archives : Two Early African-American Students at St. Thomas
February is African American History Month. In honor of this celebration, I want to highlight two early African-American alumni of the University of St. Thomas.
The first African-American student to attend St. Thomas was John Henry “Harry” Dorsey. In 1888, Dorsey was invited to attend the (then) St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary by Archbishop John Ireland. Dorsey studied at the school for only a year before returning to his native Baltimore to attend the newly opened Epiphany Apostolic College. Ultimately, he was ordained as a member of Society of St. Joseph in 1902 becoming only the second African American priest to be ordained in the United States. Fr. Dorsey spent many years serving as a missionary in several Southern States before his death in 1926.
Charles Valmo (later known as Valmo Charles) Bellinger attended the College of St. Thomas from 1917 – 1919. “Tex”, as he was known to his fellow students, hailed from San Antonio, Texas. He excelled in the classroom as well as on the football and track teams and was known by his classmates for his willingness to debate on any issue. After his graduation from St. Thomas’s Junior College in 1919, he completed his education at Lincoln University, the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University before returning to his hometown. In San Antonio, he became active in local politics and founded and published one of the most successful African-American newspapers in the Southwest, the San Antonio Register.
To find out more about the history of the University of St. Thomas, visit the University Archives webpage or search the Historic University Publications database and the Univeristy Archives Photograph Collection.
Are you ready to celebrate Valentine’s Day, library-style?!
It seems that love is in the air everywhere you look this week, including at UST Libraries! Stop by this week to join us in these heart-felt (pun intended!) celebrations:
Go on a Blind Date with a Book
Have you ever been on a blind date with a book? Stop by this week to try it out…titles are wrapped up so you won’t know what you’re getting, but isn’t that the fun of finding a new book?
All titles have been hand-picked by library staff. Happy Reading!
All Week, OSF Rotunda Reference Desk
Therapy Pets
Who doesn’t love a good snuggle with the ever-popular UST Libraries Therapy Pets?
This time, the dogs and bunnies will have some Valentine’s swag with them just perfect for you to take a snuggly selfie with you and your friends! #ustlibfindlove
Thursday, Feb. 11, 6-8pm in the OSF Rotunda
News & Events, Political Science
Countdown to the 2016 Presidential Election: New Hampshire Primary & Another Round of Debates This Week
Tomorrow, Feb. 9th, the nation kicks off its first primary election in New Hampshire, following Iowa’s Caucuses that were held on Feb. 1st. Following those results, both the Democrats and Republicans have scheduled live debates. The Democrats’ debate is scheduled to air on Feb. 11th at 8 p.m. on PBS, and the Republicans’ debate is to air on Feb. 13th at 8 p.m. on CBS.
To find out more about election events and the presidential candidates, check out our guide to the 2016 General Election.
Here you will find links to all sorts of useful information including:
- A quiz to find out which candidate you REALLY support
- Video and transcripts for all past public debates
- Fact checking sites that show who is being honest and who is bending the truth
- A news aggregator showing the top political headlines from sources all around the web
Visit it today and throughout 2016 to make sure you are in the know this campaign season.
Archbishop Ireland Library, Charles J. Keffer Library, Libraries, News & Events, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library
New Libraries website launches
You may have noticed by now that our new Libraries website launched last night. We’ve moved our web content into a template that incorporates the University’s new web styles. The look and feel is quite different, but the structure of the site is largely the same, so most of the features you’re used to seeing are roughly in the same place.
We now move on to “reskinning” many of the associated web applications you’ve likely used in the past: Research & Course Guides, the Get It and Journals A-Z pages, EZ Proxy login, Interlibrary Loan, and some others. This will take a few days, and you may notice some minor hiccups as the systems are changed. If you run into difficulties getting pages to appear or function properly, try the following:
- refresh your browser window
- wait a few minutes and try again
- contact us via Ask A Librarian
Sorry in advance for any inconvenience you may experience during this transition period. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at 2-5018 or jpheintz@stthomas.edu.
John Heintz
Associate Director for Digital Initiatives
Photo credit: Mark Brown (in the Newroom’s original article)
Did you know you can get all the books President Sullivan named in the Midweek’s “Seven Questions with President Julie Sullivan” at UST Libraries?
We are happy to have such a voracious reader at the helm of UST and even more so to report that all of her chosen titles are available in our collection.
Here are direct links to them:
Non-Fiction
College Disrupted: The Great Unbundling of Higher Education by Ryan Craig
St. Martin’s Press, 2015
(to read)
The Name of God is Mercy by Pope Francis
Random House, 2016
(to read)
Pope Francis: Why He Leads the Way He Leads by Chris Lowney
Loyola Press, 2013
President Sullivan’s comments: “Lowney relates the pope’s history to his current leadership style. He also offers leadership lessons we can learn from Pope Francis: Know yourself deeply, serve others, immerse yourself in the world, withdraw from it daily, live in the present and revere traditions, even as you energetically go about creating the future.”
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande.
(Metropolitan Books, 2014)
President Sullivan’s comments: “There are lessons to be learned from Gawande’s book too. I learned from Being Mortal that our reasons for living are just as important at the end of life as at any other time in our lives.”
Fiction
President Sullivan’s comments: “Both (are) set in occupied France during WWII – these historical novels were excellent. I read one of them during a cruise that my husband and I took on the Seine between Paris to Normandy last summer. I read the other when we came home.”
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
St. Martin’s Press, 2015
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Scribner, 2014
Happy Reading! Please let any UST Libraries staff know if you have any questions/comments while accessing these.
Libraries, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library, Special Collections and Archives
Tales from the Archives – The Mid-Winter Frolic
Saint Paul is currently in the midst of celebrating its annual Winter Carnival. But did you know that St. Thomas used to host its own version of the this celebration of winter?
The Midwinter Frolic got its start in February 1938, sponsored by the Inter-Club Council. Miss Marion O’Hara, the reigning St. Paul Winter Carnival Queen, oversaw the event, which included an ice cream eating contest and an all-college dance. 
In 1956, it was expanded it to a week long celebration, co-sponsored by St. Thomas’s All College Council and the student government at the College of St. Catherine. The annual celebration included a variety of activities each year including a broomball tournaments, snow sculpture contests, treasure hunts, beard growing contests, and tanning contests. The festival was discontinued in 1991.
To find out more about this and other St. Thomas traditions, search the Historic University Publications database.