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Professor Wendt driving down the street cranked hiswindow open and hollared to Eric, thanks for the stuff you got for me last week! Nice way to start the morning for sure.

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Kud0s to Susan for her great Health and Garden Noon talk on Wednesday, May 13th. Steve Trost’s presentation was great as well with lots of Spring garden tips.
Earl Belisle

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Yesterday around noon a Circ student worker gave a patron great service. He was shelving or retrieving books in the stacks and encountered a student looking for the New England Journal of Medicine. When they didn’t find the journal there, he found his way to my office to help her out. I pointed out that the year needed was available only on microfiche and he and the patron headed off to the micro room. He came back to follow up on her behalf regarding the equipment and I went to help her further. In any case, I wanted to say he did a great job.

Dani

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Kudos for Susan’s organizing the Senior Citizen’s Open House.
Earl Belisle

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...for figuring out how to get our personal folders back in Outlook, and communicating this!
Marianne Hagemann

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Write a comment on any of these Kudos or send Diane Knights an email to get a new entry started or comment on an existing thred. I will be able to tell from the Comment whether or not is should get it's own entry.

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Thanks to everyone in CMS who purchases, catalogs, and processes all of the children’s book award winners in a compressed span of time. If you didn’t know, they have to do all this for a group of 35-40 books each year in a timespan of < 4 weeks.

Folks who attend my session at the Hubbs’ conference really appreciate being able to look at the books.
Donna Nix

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I’d like to thank the WMS people, specifically, Ben and Kevin, for tweaking the E-Reserves access for off-campus patrons. As well as, the new “Find an Open Computer in the Library” feature on the Library’s web site. This is great guys.
Nathan Wunrow

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Thanks to Donna and Marianne. Great presentation today. We were all charged about the project and think it would be a great investment in time for us to do it - even comparing our private feeder schools to the public. Maybe there are ways other could help do the research? Nice presentation
Linda Hulbert

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The "Find Open Computers" tool is fabulous Ben! Thanks for getting this up and working on the libraries web page. A number of folks in and outside the Libraries have passed along compliments.
John Heintz

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Kudos to Eric for filling in at the very last minute on Friday morning, March 20th, when no one else was able to come in to work at the reference desk. Way to go, Eric!
Jan O.

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I had the advantage in all of my writing through the acquaintance with Earl Belisle in the University of St. Thomas Library. He was a great help in my search of records and resources. He could produce data in a fraction of the time I would have had to spend.”
From: Never Too Late: a beyonder’s story by Berenice Bleedorn, 2009, Glade Press, Inc. Lakeville, MN
B. Bleedorn

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My thanks go to Julie, Dan Eller, Shiromi Beach, Eric Kallas, Sheila Hague, Brian Hill, Diane Knights, JoAnn Toussaint, Nathan Wunrow, Earl Belisle, Karen Batdorf, Andrea Koeppe, Linda Hulbert, Lisa Dochniak, John Heintz and all others who helped develop such a great NLW last week. There were several highlights for me – the books domino thing, the Larry McDonough concert, the golf (at OSF, and I’m sure the Keffer was just as good…) and the reception for faculty…
Dan Gjelten

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It took almost 2 months of persistence to get the GVRL databases working for everyone from every place! I know the students will benefit from the hard work and perserverance Carolyn contributed to this problem. Thanks for your hard work Carolyn!
Diane

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The Non-Exempt Staff Council appreciates the LMT’s Donation and co-sponsor for the Staff Appreciation Breakfast. LMT purchased an Airline ticket for the charity auction. All the proceeds will benefit the Dorothy Day Center, Father Dease’s charity this year.
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Kudos to Marianne having things filed away to access at a moment’s notice
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And kudos to Janice, who put this information on the wiki!
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Many thanks to my cohorts in CMS. I'm not sure I would have survived my first year without their advise and guidance. Special thanks to Lisa R. for all her help with book ordering this winter. What a great group of people to work with!
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An outside patron needing to make photocopies was in the library having difficulty. Shriomi spent about 5 minutes helping him out and explaining the differences between the copiers on first level. He was very appreciative of the quality help he recieved from someone knowledgeable and patient; someone who is in place to provide the necessary answer right away.
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I have been here at St Thomas for about 7 years and have used CLICnet on occasion. I went to your open house today to see what I could learn. I was surprised to see it was located in the small room to the left as you walk in. I though that we might be shown the different areas of the library and what they had to offer.

What I found was a great deal of information on the different areas of the library. I was with a coworker and we stopped at each of the tables and I learned some very interesting things that I did not know before from each person I talked to. And we stopped at each table. Every person graciously offered information about their area and an invitation to stop in and ask for help if we needed it. They were more than willing to answer all questions – and explain more when I didn’t understand.

So this library that I consider a valuable tool for our students can also be a valuable tool for me; both in person and on line. Thank you for having this open house. It was fun and informative.

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Many thanks to Susan for coming up with the idea for the staff open house and her extra work in organizing this event. I hear it went well at OSF and we all at Keffer believe ours was a great success as well. Thanks again!

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It's so nice of him to bring treats in for us!

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My thanks to the group which did most of the planning for today’s retreat. I’ve heard good things so far. The Assessment committee consists of Jan Orf, Andrea Koeppe, Conie Borchardt, Janice Kragness, Linda Hulbert, Mary Lou Schmidt and myself. I’d like to thank Julie for her work in making the arrangements at the Center for the Open Book which is a great place for us to meet. Thanks to all who came and participated. Please send us your comments so that we can continue to work on retreats and gatherings that make sense and are useful to you all. Dan

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Thanks to Julie Kimlinger, the person behind so many library events. Smoothly, uncomplainingly, competently, she works to make our library functions a success.

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I appreciate the ability and willingness of this group to run with the ball for this event! Good work, Susan, Andrea, Jo Ann, Earl and all those presenting at the event on January 28! Diane

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