The new Euromonitor Passport is almost here! On Saturday April 16th and Sunday April 17th 2011, Euromonitor Passport will be unavailable as the account is upgraded with new features. The new and improved Euromonitor Passport launches April 18. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Please contact a librarian if you have any questions.
150 years ago today the American Civil War began when the Confederate army fired on Fort Sumter. We have several sources for those of you interested in it.
Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction
Women in the American Civil War
Depictions of the war can be found in ArtStor, which includes over 100 Matthew Brady photos and art from several other artists. In fact, here is Albert Bierstadt’s interpretation of Fort Sumter under siege. It’s called “Bombardment of Fort Sumter.” You can get this image and thousands of others from ArtStor.
Because as the saying goes, those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
The UST Libraries 3rd Annual Food for Fines Drive will begin, April 11th and run until the end of the Spring, 2011 semester.
UST library patrons will have the opportunity to donate canned food in exchange for the waiving of library fines: 1 can = $2.00 in fines(Food will only be accepted for overdue fines, not for lost or damaged items).
The Drive’s recipient is the Franciscan Brothers of Peace, St. Paul. Founded in 1982, the Brotherhood has dedicated their lives to The Gospel of Life, devoting themselves to serve and defend the most vulnerable of our society: the pre-born child, the severely disabled, survivors of international torture, and the poor and the homeless, through their emergency food shelf.
Previous years Food for Fines statistics:
2009: 168 items = 156 lbs. food items. The donations helped alleviate about $336.00 in fines for patrons.
2010: 304 items + 1 can opener = 288 lbs. $503.25 in fines for patrons.
Nathan Wunrow / (651) 962-5498
Linnae Weinrich / (651) 962-4644
Ireland Library, on the UST south campus, will run a book sale and silent auction from Monday, April 11 through Friday, April 15, celebrating National Library Week. It will be in the reference room during regular building hours. The silent auction, of reference titles and theological books, will end at noon on Friday, April 15. This year’s sale and auction includes over 800 books from the library of Fr. Tim Vakoc, the local military chaplain, who died in 2009 from injuries received in the Iraq War. If you have any questions please contact Betsy Polakowski at 962-5452.
I just helped a student find plays by Euripides in the OSF stacks. He had the correct call number (that he got from CLICnet) and was close to where he needed to be when I saw him. I mentioned if he was looking for a summary or overview of the work, criticism, or author info that he should use Literature Criticism Online. LCO is absolutely bursting at the seams with literary info. Here’s what’s covered:
So if you are taking an English class that requires you to better understand a work of literature, get biographical information on an author, playwright or poet, find criticism on a work or get a handle on literary themes then LCO is your one-stop shop. It just couldn’t get any easier. Or could it?
Maybe you’d rather watch than read. If so, check out Films on Demand where you can watch Medea performed at the Kennedy Center in 1982. There you can also find a lot of information on Euripides, classical drama, mythology, etc. etc. etc. It’s pretty cool.
The UST Libraries invites you to take part in activities in celebration of National Library Week, beginning Monday, April 11 and running through Friday, April 15.
Play the Daily Trivia Contest, bring in Food for Fines, check to see if anyone entered the Library Video Contest, shop the Annual Used Book Sale each day, come to the UST Research Online talk and demonstration by Linda Hulbert; plan to attend the reading and book signing with St. Paul poet laureate Carol Connolly —and more. You can read all about it in the April 5 edition of Bulletin Today.
For additional details on all events, rules for contests, anouncements of winners, and much more be sure to visit our Library Week Website often. We hope to see you and Happy Library Week to you all!
| Linda Hulbert, associate director for collection management and services for the UST Libraries invites us to read about a familiar web site security measure that is also a project to transform old books, magazines, newspapers or pamphlets into accurate, searchable and easily sortable computer text files. For a very interesting piece, check out this March 28, 2011 New York Times article. |
The theme of this year’s week is “Create your own story @ your library.” The O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center, the Charles J. Keffer Library and the Archbishop Ireland Memorial Library invite St. Thomas students to enter a two-minute or shorter video showing their UST Libraries stories – for a free coffee at Coffee Bené and a chance to win one, maybe both, of the $25 gift certificates to iTunes.
All current UST students are eligible and invited to enter the contest.
One winning video will be picked by a panel of judges, and one will be voted as the fan favorite. Official rules and information on how to enter a video, as well as contact information if you have questions, are available on the UST Library Week website.
You are all cordially invited to see a film created by Paul-Michael Carr who accompanied this year’s Vision trip to Venezuela specifically to document the trip. Please come to the O’Shaughnessy Room on Thursday, March 31 at Noon. Filmmaker Carr has focused on the internal changes that take place within the hearts of the volunteers and it is a compelling look at the work of the UST VISION teams. We hope you will join us – refreshments will be provided. For more information please see the complete Bulletin Today article.
Places & Spaces: Mapping Science is a cool set of physical exhibits featuring infographics and maps that are also browseable online. From the website: “Places & Spaces: Mapping Science is meant to inspire cross-disciplinary discussion on how to best track and communicate human activity and scientific progress on a global scale. It has two components: the physical part supports the close inspection of high quality reproductions of maps for display at conferences and education centers; the online counterpart provides links to a selected series of maps and their makers along with detailed explanations of how these maps work. The exhibit is a 10-year effort. Each year, 10 new maps are added resulting in 100 maps total in 2014.”
See the exhibits/maps organized around their annual themes (listed below) or browse them all.
The exhibit is a 10-year effort. Each year, 10 new maps are added resulting in 100 maps total in 2014.
1st Iteration (2005): The Power of Maps
2nd Iteration (2006): The Power of Reference Systems
3rd Iteration (2007): The Power of Forecasts
4th Iteration (2008): Science Maps for Economic Decision Makers
5th Iteration (2009): Science Maps for Science Policy Makers
6th Iteration (2010): Science Maps for Scholars
7th Iteration (2011): Science Maps as Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries
8th Iteration (2012): Science Maps for Kids
9th Iteration (2013): Science Maps for Daily Science Forecasts
10th Iteration (2014): Telling Lies with Science Maps
Listen to a podcast about the project or see a short YouTube video clip :