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Time Limits Shortened for E-book “Checkouts”

UST Libraries has thousands of books online that you can read from anywhere! While you can read each of them right from your internet browser, there may be times when you want to download one or more to your phone, computer, or other mobile device.

When you download an online book, this is considered a “checkout,” just like when you check out a print book from your favorite library desk. Just like a print book, it will have a due date, but unlike your print book, it will return itself!

Starting this semester, many of our online books will “return themselves” after one day, though some will stay on your device for up to seven days. The reason is that many of our online books restrict the number of people who can use it simultaneously, and we want to make our high demand, online books as easily accessible to everyone as possible. The great news is, if you want to use the book again after it’s returned itself, you can just check it out again if no one was waiting for it.

Find out more about e-books at UST here, or Ask a Librarian!

February 1, 2016 by Kari Petryszyn

Database Highlights & Trials

Proquest Unavailable for 1/16-1/17

All of ProQuest & its related databases will be unavailable to the public starting at 9 p.m. Saturday and lasting until 5 a.m. on Sunday. This means any library resource that has this logo will not be available. Here’s a sample list:

Research databases
– ProQuest platform (search.proquest.com)
– ProQuest Congressional (congressional.proquest.com)
– Chadwyck-Healey databases (full list available)
– ProQuest Digital Microfilm

Reference management/Research support tools
– RefWorks
– COS Funding Opportunities
– COS Scholar Universe

Bibliographic and catalog enrichment resources
– Books in Print®
– LibraryThing for Libraries™
– Resources for College Libraries

If you need these resources, please wait it out until later on Sunday morning. Thanks for your understanding.

January 15, 2016 by

News & Events

2016 Presidential Primary Debates This Week

The Republicans’ presidential candidates face off again Thursday, Jan. 14 in a two part public debate,
while the Democratic candidates are set to debate on Sunday, Jan. 17. Find out more about the candidates and where you can watch using our guide to the 2016 General Election.

Here you will find links to all sorts of useful information including:

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.

January 14, 2016 by Kari Petryszyn

Circulation, News & Events, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library, Services

New Service: Staff Book Delivery!

During the Fall 2015 semester the OSF Library began delivering books to St. Paul campus faculty. Over the last 4 months 77 faculty have registered for the service and the library has delivered approximately 450 books to faculty offices.

The OSF Library is now expanding this service to include St. Paul campus staff.

UST staff members on the St. Paul campus can now opt to have books requested from CLICnet or Interlibrary Loan delivered to their department mailbox.

To participate, fill out this form first, then select OSF as your “pickup location” when making requests.

Delivery Service Policies:

This service is only available on the St. Paul Campus.
When requesting items via CLICnet and ILLiad you must specify OSF as your pickup location.
Upon arrival, CLICnet and ILLiad items will be checked out to your library account and delivered to your on-campus mailbox.
Once the items have been delivered to your mailbox you assume all responsibility for them.
DVDs and VHS are excluded from this delivery service.

Questions? Send an email to circulation@stthomas.edu or call 651-962-5494.

January 6, 2016 by

Libraries, News & Events, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library

Christmas Music in the Great Hall with the Guitar Ensemble – Friday Dec 11 at 1:45 pm

All are welcome!!

Please join us for a holiday treat from the St. Thomas Guitar Ensemble. Come to the second floor of the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library and find us in the north end of the Great Hall at 1:45 pm on December 11. We’ll be treated to some familiar and some not so familiar Christmas music in this wonderfully beautiful space.

Take a break from your studies, your daily projects, and stop over for some cocoa and cookies.

Enjoy the music and our talented students! Free and open to all – neighbors and friends welcome!

December 2, 2015 by

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

Treasures from the Rare Books Collection – Irish translation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll’s most notable book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland celebrates the 150^th anniversary (sesquicentennial) of its publication this year. This classic children’s tale is so beloved that it has never been out of print in its 150 year history and has been translated into over 100 languages.

Among the rare books held in the Celtic Collection is an Irish language version of this work. Published in 1922 by the Maunsel Press, Eactrad Eiblis i dTir na nLongantas was translated by Padraig O Cadhla with illustrations by Kathleen Verschoyle and Máire Úna Hyde. Its illustrations depict many of the familiar scenes of the story including Alice meeting the Cheshire Cat and the famous tea party. One notable difference in this edition of the story is that the character of Alice is illustrated with dark hair (rather than with the familiar blonde hair).

The Maunsel Press was one of the leading publishers in Ireland in the first quarter of the 20th century. The press was well known as a vehicle for young Irish writers and (after the Easter Rising of 1916) for works of a political nature. This work is representative of the nationalist bent of the press as it was published to introduce the Irish language to children.

The Celtic Collection is the largest of component of the UST Libraries rare books collections. It features rare and unique materials relating to Irish history, language and literature, with materials published in both the English and Irish languages. For more information on the UST Libraries rare books and manuscripts collections see our website.

December 2, 2015 by Ann Kenne

Libraries, News & Events, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library

noonartsound: Gypsy Jazz in the Library – Dec 1 at Noon

All are invited to the Tuesday, December 1 noonartsound: Gypsy Jazz with Kreitzer and Harrington

“Hot club” or “Gypsy jazz” is a style of music made popular by guitarist Django Reinhardt in the 1930’s. It is characterized by a swinging rhythm beat, and very fast chromatic lead, both played on hollow bodied guitars.

About our musicians:

Mark Kreitzer has been playing music in the region for years, as part of rock, country, bluegrass, folk, traditional jazz and Gypsy jazz bands. Mark is an expert player of a number of instruments, including guitar, mandolin and fiddle. He currently plays with the Mark Kreitzer Band, the ’53 Swingbillies, Patty and the Buttons, and the Clearwater Hot Club, and performs regularly at Dulono’s, The Aster Café, Vieux Carre and other local and regional venues.

Dean Harrington has been performing and teaching guitar in the Twin Cities for over twenty years. His career began in classical music with a degree in classical guitar performance from the University of Minnesota. He is currently performing with the Dean Harrington Trio and the Mill City Hot Club.

In the words of our art historian and presenter, Shelly Nordtorp-Madson,
“From Romanticized paintings of gypsy life, to screeds about their “disreputable” lifestyles, to “My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding,” the Roma, or Travelers, or whatever often pejorative name given them, gypsies are a prime example of “The Other” — a society that lives within the majority culture, but keeps a distance as well. We will explore the visual manifestations of gypsies, generally by non-Roma, and explore the mystique of the gypsy lifestyle.”

We look forward to seeing you! If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to call Julie Kimlinger at 651-962-5014.

November 23, 2015 by

Libraries, News & Events, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library

Guitar Ensemble to Perform in the Library’s “Harry Potter Room” this Friday at 1:45 pm!

The UST Guitar Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Joan Griffith, will present a casual concert in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library’s Great Hall on Friday, November 20^th, from 1:45-2:30 pm. The 2^nd floor Great Hall is often affectionately called the “Harry Potter Room”.

All are welcome to relax or study to the sounds of classical, jazz, and Latin music, and enjoy hot chocolate and cookies. The informal setting will allow listeners to come and go as their schedules permit.

Come enjoy the music in this beautiful space!

If you’d like to know more about the UST Guitar Ensembles please read on.

November 17, 2015 by

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

Treasures from the Rare Books Collection – G. K. Chesterton and WWI

The Chesterton-Belloc Collection housed the Department of Special Collections features over 1200 works by the English author G. K. Chesterton (1874 – 1936). Chesterton’s writings feature wide variety of styles – prose, poetry, drama, journalism – and topics from current events to theology. Among the materials in this collection, you will find a number of items documenting the prose and poetry written by him during World War I.

At the beginning of the First World War, Chesterton was among several leading British writers whom Charles Masterman, the head of Britain’s War Propaganda Bureau (WPB), recruited to help shape public opinion. Chesterton wrote and published several pamphlets and numerous articles in Britain’s newspapers promoting the government’s views on the war. The best known of these works is the pamphlet The Barbarism of Berlin.

During the First World War, charitable organizations such as the British Red Cross, The Daily Telegraph Belgium Fund and the Prince of Wale’s National Relief Fund raised over 70 million pounds for the war effort. Chesterton was among many contemporary writers (including John Galsworthy and Rudyard Kipling) who contributed prose and poetry to works published and sold by charities. Proceeds of these publications were used to aid war refugees and wounded military personnel.

For more information on the UST Libraries rare books and manuscripts collections see : http://www.stthomas.edu/libraries/special/rare/ .

November 11, 2015 by Ann Kenne

News & Events

Race for the White House: 2016

(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The Republicans presidential candidates face off again tonight in a two part public debate, while the Democratic candidates are set to debate on Saturday. Find out more about the candidates and where you can watch using our guide to the 2016 General Election.

Here you will find links to all sorts of useful information including:

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.

November 10, 2015 by Kari Petryszyn

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