Check out the Census Bureau’s interactive map for the first preliminary county-level results for Minnesota from the 2010 U.S. Census (when the U.S. map opens, click on the state):
See more Census data as it’s released on their website or blog.
During 2011 spring break please note these library hours in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library:
Sunday, March 20 Noon – 10pm
Monday, March 21 8am -10pm
Tuesday, March 22 8am – 10pm
Wednesday, March 23 8am – 10pm
Thursday, March 24 8am – 10pm
Friday, March 25 8am – 6pm
Saturday, March 26 10am – 6pm
Sunday, March 27 regular spring hours resume: Noon to 2am
You can check this library website to find detailed information about all of the library hours.
Looking for a cup of coffee? Not in the library this week – please visit Coffee Bene next to Davanni’s. Regular coffee shop hours in the library will resume on Monday, March 28.
Database Highlights & Trials, News & Events, Uncategorized
UST Libraries to cancel subscription to Kompass
The libraries first subscribed to Kompass in 2004 and at the time it was the only resource that provided international company and industry information. Since that time the libraries have acquired other databases that provide the same type of information, most notably Euromonitor Global Market Information Database and OneSource Global Business Browserwhich contains data from Kompass and other international company sources. While Kompass is not an expensive product, especially compared to other business databases, the business librarians felt the information in Kompass is readily available in other sources and the money needed to pay for Kompass would be better used on other products.
Therefore, we will be cancelling the title and it will disappear on March 31st. Please send your comments and concerns to Andrea Koeppe 2-4674 or arhudson@stthomas.edu
Media:scape is now a permanent installation in Room 110
The O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library has transformed one of its group studies into a collaborative study space using Steelcase’s media:scape equipment, which allows a group of users to display content on their computer monitors to two large flat panel displays, making group work much easier. The media:scape has been installed in OSF Room 110, right next to the coffee shop. After several weeks of a successful trial earlier this winter, the Libraries decided to make it permanent and have purchased the furnishings. Comments from faculty, staff, and students were very positive and the library is pleased to offer this great environment for collaborative learning.
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Library asks help from everyone to keep the library clean – and more quiet!
A habit of leaving behind trash on the study tables has seemed to develop and we ask your help in keeping our house clean. It is your library – please be sure that if you do enjoy a snack in the library, put the wrappers, etc. into a trash bin. If it is something you can recycle, please take the extra moment and place it in the proper receptacle. Thank you to all for your help – we can keep the place clean very easily if we all “pitch in.”
Someone calling you? Do you need to make a call? Please use your cell phones in areas outside of study areas and stairwells. Your voices carry much further than you realize – please respect the need of others in the library for quiet study and take your phone calls to the coffee shop, the lobby, the cybercafé on lower level, or outside of the library. Thank you very much.
News & Events
Dr. Carmela Garritano to speak in Library Friday, March 4, at 3:15 pm: West African video movie making
Dr. Carmela Garritano, English Department, will present “Spectacular Consumption in an Afropolis: A Talk About West African Video Movies” on Friday, March 4. The event will be held from 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. in the O’Shaughnessy Room, Room 108, O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center. The event is free and open to the campus community and the public; coffee and cookies will be served.
Dr. Carmela Garritano The emergence of popular video industries in Ghana and Nigeria represents an important and exciting development in African cultural production over the past two decades. An inexpensive, widely available, and easy-to-use technology for the production, duplication and distribution of movies and other media content, video has radically transformed the African cultural landscape.
It has allowed video makers in Ghana and Nigeria, individuals who in most cases are detached from official cultural institutions and work outside the purview of the state, to create a tremendously popular commercial cinema for audiences in Africa and abroad: feature “films” made on video.
This talk, drawn from Garritano’s research on the Ghanaian video industry, will describe the changing representation of the African city, or the Afropolis, in video movies produced between the late 1980s and 2010.
In the earliest videos, the landscape of urban poverty was a constitutive part of the worlds the movies presented, and in the narratives of these movies, deprivation was the social given that motivated characters’ choices. More recently, the urban landscape, when made visible at all, is largely devoid of signs of hardship or poverty. The city is made to resemble a display window, a framed and carefully orchestrated surface exhibition of consumerism and consumption.
Garritano’s presentation will suggest a correspondence between this shift and transformations in the economic and structural organization of media institutions, including the opening of the West African cultural landscape to new global media flows.
(Article from Bulletin Today, March 1, 2011)
News & Events, Uncategorized
Sacred Arts Festival runs through May 23; visit Geography of Home in OSF Library
“Geography of Home” by Susan Armington is on exhibit now through May 23rd and you are invited to view it in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library. Susan Armington’s painting celebrates the geography of the Twin Cities area. She explores cultures and places through her map paintings. Her interest in how art can encourage connections between communities comes through in her works. This piece beautifully celebrates the geography of the Twin Cities area, including rivers and streams, as well as the experiences of individuals who have come to the region and made it their home. A book that provides translations into English of these personal accounts, written in over 20 different languages, accompanies the painting. For more information about Susan Armington and her work visit http://www.thesusanarmington.com/.
“Sacred Waters” is the theme of the 32nd annual University of St. Thomas Sacred Arts Festival. The festival, open to the public, is a celebration of sacred art and an exploration of faith and festival events are free and take place on St. Thomas’ St. Paul campus.
Read on for complete information on the Sacred Arts Festival events.
If you have books that you used to love but no longer wish to keep, please consider donating them to the UST Libraries Library Week Book Sale! We are accepting donations of books that would make a fun book sale, which will take place Monday – Friday, April 11 – 15 in the O’Shaughnessy Room of the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center. Please drop off your books at the O’Shaughnessy-Frey circulation desk anytime between now and Thursday, April 7. Book sale shoppers are especially excited when they find treasures from your donations of novels, mysteries, classical works of literature, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, biographies and history, cookbooks, children’s books, travel, art, music. If you have any questions please call Julie at 962-5014.
Database Update from Linda Hulbert, Associate Director for Collection Management and Services
“Roper’s IPoll bites the dust!
“The libraries purchased IPoll from Roper two years ago. It’s unique in what it has, although ponderous as a search tool.
“Unfortunately, its use had been dismal AND decreasing AND its price went up. It has gone from $1,700 to $2,300. While there does not seem to be anything like it, the combination of poor use and increase in price is hard to support. The increase in cost would take it to $36 per search and $104 per session. That wins as the most expensive database per use that we have. It was high at $1,700 but at $2,300 – it’s too hard to justify.
“Therefore, we will be cancelling the title and it will disappear on the 14th of March, 2011. Please send your comments and concerns to Linda Hulbert 2-5016 or lahulbert@stthomas.edu.”
All are cordially invited to hear Dr. Anne Klejment, UST history professor, speak on Dorothy Day. This Noon Conversation: Dorothy Day and Social Justice will be held on Thursday, February 24 at Noon until 1pm in the O’Shaughnessy Room of the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library. You are welcome to bring your bag lunch if you wish; beverages and a light dessert will be provided.
Dr. Klejment earned a Ph.D. in history at the State University of New York at Binghamton and has taught at UST since 1983. Her research and publication has focused on Catholics and nonviolence, the early liturgical movement, and Catholic publishing in the mid twentieth century.
Please plan to join us — meet Dr. Anne Klejment – and Dorothy Day. Questions or in need of parking information? Please call Julie Kimlinger at 651-962-5014.
What drew you to study Dorothy Day so intently?
I had heard about Dorothy Day from my mom, whose high school classmate was one of the founders of the Rochester (New York) Catholic Worker. Her classmate’s son was also a draft resister during the Vietnam War. I was writing about Catholic protest against the Vietnam War and about nonviolent movements—focusing on Martin Luther King and the Berrigans—when I realized that I couldn’t understand Dan and Phil without understanding Dorothy Day. So I started reading…and the rest is history!
How long have you been researching her?
I’ve been reading about her since the mid seventies and I started serious research in the early 80s, when on the strength of a published bibliography on the Berrigans, I got a contract to compile a Dorothy Day/Catholic Worker bibliography and index. That was published in 1986 with my mom as co author. Since then I’ve co-edited another book about Catholic Worker pacifism and have written several articles on Dorothy Day.
Any favorite things about her that you have discovered?
Her love letters are phenomenal. They confirmed what I had suspected: that although she gave up Forster Batterham, the father of her child, because he would not marry her in either a civil or religious ceremony, that they chastely loved each other until their deaths! What a struggle she had trying to convince him to marry her on the one and trying to leave him on the other because she knew how stubborn he was. A very powerful story.
Her life in 1917 as a young radical and protester against WWI and the actions of her radical friends against the war.
The complex and loving relationship of Day and her daughter Tamar.
Her emphasis on continuing conversion throughout your spiritual life!
What were your favorite resources to use in researching her life?
I love Bob Ellsberg’s books, which are compilations of her writings—By Little and By Little is a sampler of her published writings. All the Way to Heaven contains her letters to Forster. I particularly love her journals, The Duty of Delight, because it provides such an authentic view of her daily life and the challenges that she had to meet as the head of the Catholic Worker movement.