That's the argument made by T. Mills Kelly, an associate professor of history and associate director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Naturally, he first made the argument on his blog, and he has mentioned it on the technology podcast he hosts with two colleagues.

A close look at some of the largest academic e-mail lists, however, shows signs of enduring life and adaptation to the modern world." Read more at the Chronicle of Higher Education (6/29/2009)

O'Shaughnessy- Frey Library Center, St. Paul north campus

Thursday, July 2: 8 a.m.-10 p.m.
Friday, July 3: Closed
Saturday, July 4: Closed
Sunday, July 5: 2 p.m.-10 p.m.

Charles J. Keffer Library, Minneapolis campus

Thursday, July 2: 8 a.m.-10 p.m.
Friday, July 3: Closed
Saturday, July 4: Closed
Sunday, July 5: Closed

Archbishop Ireland Memorial Library, St. Paul south campus

Thursday, July 2: 8 a.m.-7 p.m.
Friday, July 3: Closed
Saturday, July 4: Closed
Sunday, July 5: Closed

Media Resources Collection, St. Paul north campus

Thursday, July 2: 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Friday, July 3: Closed
Saturday, July 4: Closed
Sunday, July 5: Closed

Music Resource Center, St. Paul south campus

Thursday, July 2: 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Friday, July 3: Closed
Saturday, July 4: Closed
Sunday, July 5: Closed

Special Collections, St. Paul north campus

Thursday, July 2: 9 a.m.-noon, and 1 p.m.-4:30 p.m. (appointments recommended)
Friday, July 3: Closed
Saturday, July 4: Closed
Sunday, July 5: Closed

Schoenecker Law Library, Minneapolis campus

Thursday, July 2: 7:45 a.m.-6 p.m.
Friday, July 3: Closed
Saturday, July 4: access via law card only
Sunday, July 5: access via law card only

Tech Desktoo (TDtoo) is located in the lower-level cyber lounge of the library and offers an opportunity for face-to-face interaction with a knowledgeable IRT student employee. Like the “Scholars” counter on the Minneapolis campus, TDtoo is a walk-up help desk for the St. Paul campus.

In addition to a walk-up support presence, TDtoo features access to the UST wireless and wired networks, literature for assistance with topics ranging from general PC maintenance to phishing questions, and installing software available for checkout from the library.

All UST faculty, staff and students are welcome to take advantage of TDtoo for assistance with computing questions and configuration issues, even on personally owned laptops.

Students employees are available to assist with ensuring laptops have the latest virus protection and all operating system patches. They’ll even be able to suggest professional help, if specific problems cannot be resolved at the desk.

The idea of this “discovery layer” on the existing catalog is to simplify searching while providing new functionality to explore the consortium’s resources. Since the updated CLICnet has a new URL, please remember to change any links you have in course pages before you teach your next class.

We’ll be incorporating the new catalog version in links from the Library Web site through the summer. Don’t worry, the “classic” catalog with its existing search options will still be available at http://clicnet.clic.edu.

A: "In a publishing world with many unfair practices to their customers, it shouldn’t be that unusual for a librarian to speak out publicly. Evidently it is. When Wiley stopped talking to us as we attempted to negotiate a fair license for their online content, I wrote them and I sent the letters to liblicense and Serialist email lists. I was worried about being able to provide well-used content online where we know our users prefer it.

"From there the letters were picked up by bloggers and other lists and most recently in Library Journal's Academic Newswire.

"The positive response for UST is great and will allow us to continue to provide online access to Wiley content."

Read the Library Journal article to learn more about this issue. Congratulations and thank you, Linda!

The description for this work reads: Loet Vanderveen grew up in Rotterdam, Holland where he visited the city zoo. He recalls the horrific day of May 14, 1940 when the Germans bombed Rotterdam and the zoo was structurally compromised. The Dutch army shot many of the animals to prevent them from roaming the city and harming residents. Vanderveen recalls a few animals survived and he describes the movement of one of the elephants this way: ". . . in the midst of it all, there was one elephant roaming. It was very, very poetic." In some of his sculptures Vanderveen explores this memory in the form of a single elephant. In the work he donated to the University of St. Thomas, Vanderveen expands on the subject and reveals the grace and beauty of an elephant herd moving together.

Take a peek at a similar work of art by this artist, and we're certain you'll want to see ours in person.

Here are some guidelines and details about the study rooms in the O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library.

Computers are available for your use in study rooms LL20, LL21 and 312B. These computers have the same Microsoft software as the computers in the InfoCommons and other computing labs (Word, Excel, etc.); however, you are not able to print from them.

These rooms are intended to be used by groups of three or more people.

Groups can sign up to use a room for a maximum of two hours. Any group-study room can be reserved in advance by signing up on the reserve sheets posted on the doors.

Unscheduled groups using the space need to vacate the room when a scheduled group arrives. Groups lose their right to the room if they do not claim it within 10 minutes of their scheduled time.

Although individuals do not sign up to reserve these rooms, a person studying alone is welcome to use a group-study room if open, but will need to vacate it if the room is needed by a group.

The group study rooms are not to be used for regularly scheduled meetings.

LL21 is a "quiet computer study room." There are several computers in this room available for computer work in a quiet environment.

We wish you well and good luck in your studies as you come close to completing your year. Good luck on your finals.

Videos from this pilot project are available for classroom or individual viewing via a Web browser and are accessible from on or off campus (off-campus users will need to log in with UST username and password) using broadband high speed (i.e., cable modem or DSL) Internet connections.

This pilot project will test whether streaming videos can better meet curricular needs of faculty wishing to assign in-class or asynchronous viewing and determine whether this mode of video delivery is feasible without excessive consumption of computer network bandwidth resources.

See the Web site for usage tips, including minimum computer, browser and media-player software requirements. If you have questions on how to access the videos or comments, how well this streaming video content meets your needs, and whether you think this effort should expand beyond a pilot project, contact Cindy Badilla-Melendez, UST media resources librarian, (651) 962-5464.

Susan Price, UST reference librarian and author, and Steve Trost, UST Biology Department and master gardener, will talk about gardening tips and answer your gardening questions at noon Wednesday, May 13, in the O'Shaughnessy Room, Room 108, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center. Bring your lunch if you wish, beverages and light dessert will be provided. If you have any questions please call Julie at 651-962-5014.