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The library will be closed until Monday, December 29. And again of course on New Year's Day. Web pages, catalogs, databases, e-resources and all sorts of online goodies, of course, are all avaialble.
How about blogging? Well, almost anything is possible, I guess.....
Happy Holidays!
Just a note about additional content that we are developing for Ireland's infant "Digital Library."
For the time being content will appear on our own modest Ireland Library page, bringing the more or less sophisticated digital project (part of our comsortium digitization resource) together with home grown material we have done ourselves, which means in less than ideal pdf formats, using our slow and cumbersome equipment....
Here’s how the baby steps we are taking line up for now:
We have already written in this blog some about the first two small collections.
Native American Texts : http://content.clic.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2Fnative-pam
Our library owns a few choice Christian missionary items, most in Dakota or Ojibwa.
Temperance Tracts
http://content.clic.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2Ftemp-pamph
Selection from our collection (many came to the library from Archbishop John Ireland, 1838-1918).
The next two are new additions of individual works, chosen as much as exemplars as for content. John Ireland’s biography of Bishop Cretin is an example of what, in library parlance, might be called an “association item.” Unfished at the time of his death and in a difficultly “rotund” style as biography the work itself is less significant to us than the fact that it is written by our namesake, and not published beyond a local history magazine, the final installment appearing the year he died.
The Catholic hymnal is a different exemplar, one of creative destruction, if you will. This small book is in such terrible condition with brittle acidic paper in typically ephemeral binding, that it was impossible to repair, or even really handle. In consultation with our superb conservator, Sheila Hague, we decided to disbind it and scan as a preservation measure, even though this in fact destroyed the original.
John Ireland's Life of Bishop Cretin in pdf
http://www.stthomas.edu/libraries/ireland/theologyguides/cretinbio.html
Serialized biography of Joseph Cretin, Minnesota's first bishop.
Catholic Youth's Hymn Book (1871) in pdf
http://www.stthomas.edu/libraries/collections/digital/documents/hymn_book1.pdf
Scarce collection of hymn texts -- our copy had severely deteriorated
The O'Shaughnessy Room at the OSF Library was filled with music by eight music students on Thu, Dec 11, 2008.
A big round of applause goes to pianist Meghan Garcia, Hoang Bui, Lauren Williamson, Andrew Smith, Jane Tate, and Kellen O'Grady and guitarists Brandon Loar and Nick Kor for playing at Music in the Library.
Thank you and we'll see you next year!
We opened our Christmas presents early so we could share them with you! This is what we got…
Andreas Segovia fans will be especially happy around the MRC’s Tannenbaum this year. The four volume Segovia Master class in Spain series is under the tree in addition to a biography and the re-release of El Prado, a film from 1967 which features this father of classical guitar and other Spanish amigas, pianist Alicia de Larrocha and soprano Victoria de los Angeles.
Opera followers will have oodles of footage to watch over break. The three volume Great stars of opera are stuffed into MRC stockings on the fireplace along with a DVD of tenors of the belcanto era and two operas from the standard repertory, Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Verdi’s Il Trovatore, which Minnesota Opera mounted earlier this season.
DVD’s on the venerable music/talent education master Suzuki, contemporary composer Henze, a history of the nearly century old Salzburg Festival and miscellaneous orchestral performances with famous soloists from yesteryear complete the goodies left by St. Nicholas in our shoes.
Come and play with our new toys soon!
The Music Resource Center will be closed Sat, Dec 20, 2008 through Sun, Jan 4, 2009.
During J-term 2009, the MRC will be open 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday through Friday and closed Saturday and Sunday as a gradual reawakening to Spring Term.
Regular hours resume on Mon, Feb 2, 2009.
It is nice to give credit to our hardworking faculty ....
Ireland Library has drawn together a snazzy bibliography of UST Theology, Seminary and Catholic Studies faculty books by using a web service called LibraryThing (terrible name but a very innovative bunch of folks).
Recall how most bibliographies look – BORING! – and then take a peek at how LibraryThing handles this task.
Faculty Book Publications: a listing of monographs and contributions to edited works by full-time St Thomas faculty in the Theology and Catholic Studies departments as well as the Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity.
Because many entries are contributions, more work is involved than for monographs, but still, on the whole, the extra effort is well worth it. Among other improvements, with a LibraryThing account one can make bibliographies not only look better but work better, too, since viewers can sort and resort results to their liking (by author, title, format, etc.), as well as make their own comments in the tagging feature, and get a better visual sense with book jackets as available.
More about LibraryThing.
In the glass case in the reference room, this month we have a simple display of some of the library’s “press book” holdings published by the (locally) well known printer, the North Central Publishing Company. For a number of years they did attractively designed, limited edition publications, many centered on religious topics. Several are done with Christmas themes accompanied by seasonal art work, most often of very simple design.
Only a few fit in our glass case (indicated in the listing below) and, of course, the library does do not own all these "press books" but here is a quick and dirty bibliography of the shop's "Christmas" production over the years:
Christmas Books, 1947-1981, issued by the North Central Publishing Company (St. Paul, MN)
• Brett, Laurence. A Cloud of Witnesses : Reflections Drawn from the Book of Hebrews for the Year of Faith. 1967.
• The Office of Matins for Christmas Day as Done at Sarum. 1955. ON DISPLAY
• The Word is Man : Three Christmas Sermons of Saint Leo the Great. 1964.
• In the Day of the Nativity of the Lord at Compline. 1981. ON DISPLAY
• The Church in the World : Inaugural Address of Pope Paul VI at the Second Session of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council. 1963.
• Ephraem, Syrus, Saint. Homiletic Rhythms on the Nativity. 1977.
• Gran, John M., Christmas in St. Paul. 1951.
• Hanson, Glenn. The Frontier Holiday : Being a Collection of Writings by Minnesota Pioneers Who Recorded their Divers Ways of Observing Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Year's. 1948.
• Hovda, Robert, Frank Kacmarcik. No Land in Shadows : A Meditation on the Infleshing of the Son of God. 1953.
• In Days to Come : Pleading of Man for Peace. 1969.
• Peace and Justice : The Address of His Holiness Pope John Paul II before the General Assembly of the United Nations on the Feast of the Guardian Angels. 1979.
• Kacmarcik, Frank. Worship for Christmas : The First Mass in the Night for Christmas. 1960.
• Maris Stella. The Animals' Carol and Other Poems. 1976. ON DISPLAY
• McCarthy, Eugene J. And Time Began. 1968.
• Muellerleile, Al, John Bailey. Christmas 1947. 1947.
• Muellerleile, Al. The Holy Gospel According to Saint Mark. 1978.
• Muellerleile, Al. Alfred's Christmas, Reminiscences of a Childhood Christmas. 1975.
• Muellerleile, Mary Alice, and Frank Kacmarcik. Seasons of Hope : Visions of Man's Fulfillment. 1970. ON DISPLAY
• Tales for Christmas Reading : 1949. St. Paul: 1949.
• Verse for Christmas Reading. St. Paul: 1950.
• O'Brien, Joseph Philip. A Bushful of Birds. 1968.
• Proclus, Saint, Patriarch of Constantinople. On the Incarnation of the Lord. 1961. ON DISPLAY
• Sangrinus, Angelus. A Mirror and Model for the Followers of Christ : The Life of the most Blessed and Saintly Benedict, Father and Patriarch of Monks. 1980.
• Shannon, James P. All Men Seek God. 1966. ON DISPLAY
• Walsh, John J., Jane McCarthy, and Frank Kacmarcik. A Nativity Sequence. 1954.
Student performances will fill your noon hour with beautiful music, both piano and guitar, from Noon to 1pm today, Thursday, December 11, in the O'Shaughnessy Room of the O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library. Bring your lunch if you wish - light refreshments will be provided.
Music in the Library provides opportunities for musicians in the UST community to perform in an informal and friendly atmosphere. Any student, faculty or staff member interested in participating in future musical offerings is invited to contact Conie Borchardt at 651-962-6874.
The O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library Media Resources Collection is hosting a trial for streaming educational videos. The trial consists of 10 online videos, selected randomly and provided by the distributor, Films for the Humanities and Sciences. This distributor offers hundreds of university-level videos in all subject areas.
If there is enough positive feedback, UST Libraries could offer online videos on a variety of subject areas in a pilot project beginning in February, 2009.
To find the online video trial, go to the UST Libraries web page and look for Films for the Humanities and Sciences database trial in the right hand column. This trial ends Friday, January 30.
Send your comments or questions to media resources librarian, Cindy Badilla-Melendez, cbadillame@stthomas.edu or call her at 962-5464.
On the Ireland Library home page, you can enjoy a list of the latest additions to the collection. Many thanks to Betsy for extracting the list from our catalog. Here is a direct link, too: http://www.stthomas.edu/libraries/ireland/newbooks.html
Among personal favorites:
The neoplatonists : a reader / John Gregory.
London ; New York : Routledge, 1999. B517 .G74 1999.
The Christian polemic against the Jews in the Middle Ages / Gilbert Dahan ; translated by Jody Gladding.
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 1998. BM585 .D3513 1998.
The ancient synagogue from its origins to 200 C.E. : a source book / by Anders Runesson, Donald D. Binder, and Birger Olsson. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008. BM653 .R86 2008.
Macrina the Younger, philosopher of God / Anna M. Silvas. Turnhout : Brepols, 2008. BR1720 .M237 2008.
Guide to ministering to Alzheimer's patients and their families / Pat Otwell. New York : Routledge, 2007. BV4461 .O89 2007.
Disputed truth : memoirs [II] / Hans Kung ; translated by John Bowden. New York, N.Y. : Continuum, 2008. BX4705.K76 A35 2008.
Christian texts for Aztecs : art and liturgy in colonial Mexico / Jaime Lara. Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. F1219.3.M59 L37 2008.
Get in the holiday spirit with carols and cookies at the O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library on Tuesday, December 9 from Noon until 1:00 pm. You'll find the Women's Chorus, directed by Dr. Angie Broeker, on the main floor of the library. Sing along with familiar and favorite carols and enjoy works performed by the chorus. Refreshments available too! Hope you will be able to stop by.
The Music Resource Center’s Thanksgiving Holiday was bookended with new arrivals!
Through an ACTC grant, we added quite a few CD recordings of orchestral works and songs by American composer William Bolcom. Guitarists will want to checkout the new Andreas Segovia 4-CD set, the 3 CD’s of Dowland lute songs and music, and UST’s very own Dr. Kachian on Falls Flyer, a CD of music for guitar and oboe. In other notable additions, the MRC acquired the 1958 Sofia recital given by famous pianist Sviatoslav Richter, a couple CD’s of music from Bosnia and the sacred choral music of Fux, Carissimi and Tavener.
Eight more DVD’s of the Jazz Icons performance series arrived today: Brubeck, Coltrane, Ellington, Gordon, Mingus, Montgomery, Vaughan, and a bonus disc of previously unseen performances of four of these greats. We’re expecting eight more of these DVD’s to arrive. Stay tuned to see when they’ll be here!
Other new DVD’s on MRC shelves are two opera standards by the two (and unrelated) musical Strauss’, two Tchaikovsky ballets, and a biography about American minimalist, John Adams. Students in conducting class will also want to look at the DVD on creative rehearsal techniques for choirs and Herbert von Karajan rehearsing and performing symphonies by Schumann and Beethoven.
Want to know what’s on each track and how to find it? Go to our list of new arrivals and click on the title.
Searching CLICnet and can’t find what you’re looking for? Please send us a comment and we’ll add it to our list. Or join our Facebook page: UST’s Music Resource Center.
