2011 in review

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The Best Books of 2011

It’s the time of year for all the “Best Books of 2011″ lists.  The New York Times has one; the Washington Post has one; Amazon has dozens.  But what could be more informative than the best books of the Doherty Library staff.  So here’s our picks for the best book we’ve read this year.  Most are available at Doherty.

The best book I read this year was The New Collected Poems of George Oppen, edited by Michael Davidson. Oppen is an important but under-read 20^th-century American poet (1908-1984) notable for the formal rigor of his lines, the ethical and political consistency in both his life and his work, and his sincere and humble interest in philosophy. He also has a practice of including unattributed quotations in his poems, as well as oblique references to people like Heidegger and Maritain, so the well-researched explanatory notes by Davidson are essential. I see both Oppen’s craftsmanship and his ethical commitment to clarity and truth as inspirational and exemplary in American poetry.     — Joe Goetz

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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

The black and white photography on the book sleeve of odd children drew me in.  I just couldn’t resist.

Currently I am the type of reader that likes to read before I go to sleep.  I am usually asleep within 5 to 10 minutes, so I never get through a chapter in one reading.  This behavior usually leads me in the direction of getting tired of a novel quickly and not finishing it.                                                         

With this book, I continue to go back to it when I am not too exhausted and I don’t mind reading back a page or two to refresh my memory.  There seems to be enough interesting tidbits to make me keep going.

All the crazy things that goes on in the head of the lead character has either gone on in my own mind in the past or actually still goes on in my head.  This connection with the character allows me in a way to become the character.  Riggs leads the reader to remember their own youth in the sense of when and how we find out about the past lives of our parents and grandparents.  Plus, how this new found knowledge affects us, in that those adults become more like real people rather than on a pedestal and yet they are still our heroes despite their faults.

Although the grandfather’s death did not make me cry which is how I usually gauge books and movies –  my emotions should be totally drawn in — I found that the 3 generations that are affected by WWII is a theme that draws me in for the ride. Plus the mystery of what happened to the children is silently keeping me going.  With this easy to read 300page book, I still have a ways to go but I refuse to give up!     –Sylvia Coy

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The three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick.

Returning from the edge of the universe no longer quite human, Palmer Eldritch comes bearing a gift for a beleaguered, desperate world: the chance to glimpse the divine. But what price does such a gift carry? And what is Eldritch’s agenda?

Written by Philip K. Dick (arguably the most important science fiction writer of the 20^th century), The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is an imaginative exploration of humankind’s attempts and failures to know the unknowable. Dick touches on a variety of concepts in this novel – consumerism, governmental control, the nature of reality – but The Three Stigmata… is ultimately concerned with questions of a theological nature, the most central being how a human being can understand God.

What I love about The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is the way it tackles deep philosophical questions while remaining a fun, gripping story. This is a very readable, mind bending book that will provide a reading experience you will not find anywhere else.     — Nick Kowalski

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Green Angel and Green Witch by Alice Hoffman

The most interesting book I have read this year is actually a set of two books that are classified as Young Adult but when I read them I was transported beyond any artificial classification.The books tell a very tragic story and yet the beauty of the telling is enchanting.I pasted excerpts from the books into my journal and my 10 year old grandson read the excerpts and exclaimed, “This is poetry!”

Left on her own when her family dies in a terrible disaster when a nearby city is destroyed by a group known as the Horde, fifteen-year-old Green is haunted by loss and by the past. Struggling to survive physically and emotionally in a place where nothing seems to grow and ashes are everywhere, Green retreats into the ruined realm of her garden.

It is only through a series of mysterious encounters that Green can relearn the lessons of love and begin to heal enough to tell her story. Aided by the wisdom of four neighbors said to be witches, she sets off in an attempt to free prisoners from the Horde’s prison and to test the waters of her own strength and capacity for love. (From the publisher & Amazon)

Here are some excerpts –

I live alone in my cottage, deep in the woods. I rarely go into the village. I’m too busy working in my garden. I wear simple clothes: a green shirt, a faded skirt, green suede boots or bare feet.  I tie up my long black hair with string.  People in the village are polite. But they stare at me because of my tattoos even though I am their neighbor and they all know my name, Green, who can be depended upon. Green, who has walked through to the other side of sorrow.

*  All through winter, people came to me when they were hungry.  There is something else I ‘m known for.  Another reason to come to me.  I tell their stories.

*  One after another they sit at my kitchen table, where my mother once shelled peas, my father drank his coffee, rich with sugar and cream, where my sister painted watercolors of our family, our garden, our life. It’s here that the townspeople tell me stories of their lives.

* I began by writing on myself, ink and pins on my own skin.  I covered myself with tattoos, but when I was done, I still had more stories to tell.  I started to write on clean white pages, the last of the paper that was left.  Before long I had written down so many stories, I ran out of paper. I began to make my own. I used chopped up rags and celery stalks, boiled oak leaves, water, ground chestnut flour. When I ran out of ink, I made my own from the sap of black lilies.

*  Though I could barely see his face, I knew this boy was diamond.  I could tell who he was when I touched his arm.  When Ghost curled up at the boy’s feet, when Onion didn’t growl, when the sparrows ate crumbs from his hands, when the hawk perched on his shoulder, I knew I could let him stay.  I called him Diamond… Something inside him shone through the dark even though he kept his face hidden. .. . I could see something bright everywhere he’d walk.  It was almost like having moonlight again.

*  From the dock we can see the prison.  I am ready.  I take a stone, a feather, a rose petal, a fish hook.  I have to go alone.

I am Green, used to being alone in the garden. Green, who can make anything grow.  I hasten through the reeds and the tall grass as if I were invisible.  Just Green, nothing more.

I try to become the meadow I’m walking through.  I breathe and think like a meadow.

The horde must think I’m a weed, a vine, nothing worth paying attention to.

*How much does love weigh?  As much as a stone, a feather, a rose petal, a leaf.  It’s more than we can ever bear and less than we have the strength to carry.                                                                                                                        

*  The city is not what it once was – buildings have fallen down, parks have burned, trains still don’t run.  All the same, it’s filled with stories, far too many to count.  Too many to ever write down in a single lifetime.

*  They say our gardens are gone, but they’re wrong.  There are already roses growing outside my door.       — Pat Gerson

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The best book I read in 2011 was Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy by Rumer Godden.   At the beginning the novel seems sensational rather than metaphysical even though the title refers to the fifteen decades of the Roman Catholic rosary.  And the culminating crisis in the novel is a little melodramatic but by then as a reader I didn’t care.  Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy is such an engrossing novel that all I knew was that I couldn’t stop reading.  And I left the novel filled with a sense of peace and beauty that doesn’t usual come in a novel of prostitutes, poverty, prison, and murder.    The basic plot entails the story of a French Madame and manager of a whore house who kills her lover and goes to prison for ten years and then becomes a nun in the order of Dominicans, the Sisters of Béthanie.  The main character Elizabeth Fanshawe becomes Madame Ambard, also known by the name of La Balafrée (The Branded One), and eventually Sister Marie Lise of the Rosary.  Falling into a novel and being consumed by it is an experience that I, as an academic librarian who reads for a living, don’t often have anymore. But the worlds of the story are so beautifully created that it’s impossible not to.  Although the entire novel takes place in the years following World War II, the whore house sections feel like the 19^th century French nightlife represented by the artist Toulouse-Lautrec while the convent scenes transport the reader to a mysterious medieval world, and the prison scenes could have taken place during pre-revolutionary France.  Not until the very end of the novel does it strike the reader that the story is taking place in the modern 1970’s.  This sense of timelessness and time are because Sr. Maria Lise of the Rosary gives her self up completely – and eventually to God.  God does not live within time – all time is one to Him.  Our lives, like that of Sr. Marie Lise of the Rosary, move seamlessly from joy to sorrow to joy again, and within the joy there is always sorrow and within the sorrow is joy.  — Mary Kelleher

Collection Development Librarian Nicholas Kowalski

Doherty Library welcomes our newest staff member, Nicholas Kowalski, Collection Development/Reference Librarian.  Nick was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio and attended John Carroll University where he received his BA in English with a minor in creative writing.   Influenced by the Jesuit commitment to service, Nick spent two years after graduate as a community organizer in Cleveland through the Americorp Vista program.  A continuing desire to serve, as well as an interest in an academic life, led Nick to choose to study librarianship, and he received his MLIS from Kent State University.  Nick came to Houston via a short detour in Las Vegas.

Nick’s favorite authors are Charles Portis and Alasdair Gray.  He’s currently reading How late it was, how late by James Kelman and Love, etc. by Julian Barnes. Nick is a big sci-fi fan, particularly the original series of Star Trek, Dr. Who, and Mystery Science Theater 3000. He enjoys the indie films at the Museum of Fine Arts and River Oaks Theatre, and he is looking forward to trying the new Sundance Cinema (although it’s rather expensive and their selection seems pretty commercial). As well as books and films, Nick enjoys live music and spent four years in undergrad as a college DJ (88.7, WJCU). Finally, he is a long suffering Cleveland Indians/Browns fan.

Doherty Adds More Popular Books

Doherty has approximately 100 books in the Popular Books collection.  Stop by and check out one of the new books.  Or one of the old ones which will remain on the shelf until moved into the regular collection.  The new books are:

Non-Fiction

Isay, Jane. Mom Still Likes You Best:  The Unfinished Business Between Siblings.                             

Kelley, Kitty. Oprah:  A Biography.                                   

Kissinger, Henry. On China

Lemmon, Gayle Tzernach. The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe

McClure, Wendy. The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie

Meltzer, Brad.  Heroes for my Son.             

Merrill, C.S.  Weekends with O’Keeffe

Prothero, Stephen.  God is Not One: the Eight Rival Religions that Run the World and Why their Differences Matter.

Roach, Margaret. And I Shall Have Some Peace There: Trading in the Fast Lane for My Own Dirt Road. 

Fiction

Jen, Gish. World and Town

Harrison, Leslie. Displacement   (poetry) 

Goldstein, Lisa. The Uncertain Places    

Patterson, James – Now You See Her

Riggs, Ransom. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Ritter, Josh. Bright’s Passage: a novel

Stockett, Kathryn. The Help

Help Doherty Library Improve Services

Doherty Library is gathering  information about student perceptions and opinions of our reference services.  This information will help us to know how to better serve our patrons.

Focus group participants will be provided lunch or dinner during the session and will be entered into  a drawing for a $50 print card.

Focus group participants will discuss reference services for 60-90 minutes.  The conversation will be led by a librarian with another librarian as the recorder of the conversation.

Focus Groups will be held

Monday September 26 at 1:40pm

Tuesday September 27 at 12:30pm

Wednesday September 28 at 5:30pm

Please sign up for one session.  Sessions are limited to 15 participants.  RSVP at the Reference Desk or the Circulation Desk.  You can also call 713-525-2188, email reference@stthom.edu or text 66746.

Questions about the study, before or after the focus group session, can be directed to

Dr. Mary Kelleher

Public Services Librarian

Associate Professor

713-525-3891

kellehm@stthom.edu

RefWorks has New Look

RefWorks, our online system for storing citation information, creating bibliographies, and writing papers with intext citations, has a new look.  More colorful and more intuitive, RefWorks 2.0 is easier on the eyes and easier to use.  Check it out here:

https://www.refworks.com/refworks2/?r=authentication::init&groupcode=RWUStThomasTX

If you don’t have an account yet, you can also sign up for one. 

If you prefer the interface of RefWorks Classic, you can switch your account back by clicking at the top right hand corner of your page.

National Library Week 2011

Doherty Library celebrated National Library Week, April 11th through April 15th 2011.  As we began the week, Jerome the Doherty Library mascot was available to have his picture taken with students and friends of Doherty.  These pictures are posted on our Facebook page.  Tuesday we gave away “Popular Book” bookmarks to all those who checked out a book from our popular book collection.  Wednesday was “Puzzles and Prizes” and Thursday was “Library Hangman.”  Friday we served cake and coffee to round out the week.  All week long, anyone who brought in a new or gently used children’s book for Kappa Delta Pi’s book drive had $5 removed from their library fines. 

Friends of the Doherty Library Faculty Lecture Series

The Friends of the Doherty Library will sponsor a lecture by Dr. Constance Michalos on Tuesday, April 12 at 2:00 p.m. in the Doherty Library atrium. The lecture is free and open to the public. The title of the lecture is Coerced or Committed: The Conversion Experience of America’s Slaves.

When Africans were kidnapped into slavery, they were forced to abandon their personal and cultural identities in order to facilitate the process. Christian slave owners used the Bible to justify their practices while, simultaneously, allowing slaves to “convert.” However, the state of the slave’s soul was not the issue; his black skin testified to his damned condition and confirmed the righteousness of slavery.

To a disturbing extent, the faith of the slaves was also the instrument of their torture. Nevertheless, the vernacular and written traditions of African American literature articulate a soul-wrenching faith in God, an abiding belief in Jesus as Savior, and a metaphorical connection to the miracles of the Old and New Testaments.

After the kidnappings and the trans-Atlantic crossings and the auction blocks and the separations and the name changes and the floggings and the rapes and the sales and the hypocrisies, how, exactly, does God let his presence be known in the hearts of the slaves? What psychological, as well as spiritual, processes did the slaves undergo in order to truly believe that the God the slaveholders claimed gave them the right to own another human being was the same God that would redeem them and reward them for eternity?

Call James Piccininni at 713-525-2192 for more information.

Popular Fiction & Non-fiction Books at Doherty

 

Popular Fiction & Non-fiction Books

More books have been added to the Doherty Library popular fiction & non-fiction book collection located in our main lobby.  See the attached files for a list of all titles that are available at Popular Fiction and Non-Fiction at Doherty Library March 2011, Popular Fiction and Non Fiction at Doherty Library February 2011, Popular Fiction and non-fiction December 2010, and Popular fiction and non-fiction at Doherty Library November 2010 titles only.  You can check out these books for four weeks.    
 
As you enter the library, the books are located to your left in the main lobby on display shelves.  These books will be available through this summer.

“A library is not just a warehouse for books; it is a physical representation of a set of cultural values that have accumulated over thousands of years. Libraries salvaged and preserved Western civilization; they have been a hub for intellectual exchange, a ladder of social mobility, and a promise of continuity from one generation to the next. It is not mere courtesy that causes people to become silent in the library, as they do in a church: Libraries are sacred places.” -William Pannapacker

Babst Library, Boston College

Holiday Reading

Here’s what the staff members of Doherty Library are reading over the Christmas Break.

Sylvia:

Olga’s Story by Stephanie Williams  

Olga grew up in Russia and lived through two world wars and the Russian Revolution.  Her family looks well off, but I’m not sure if they are nobles.  She also lived in China and maybe even America.  She at least has close family in America and Canada.  I am also not sure if she is famous for anything.

The story is neater than [this description].  It is written by her granddaughter who only met her grandmother about 3-4 times within her life.  Olga’s family is from Russia and are part of the white army.  So when the revolution started Olga was in university and her family contacted her and told her to flee.  Olga went to China and never saw her biological family again.  Even as an old woman she didn’t want the granddaughter to try to find any of Olga’s family in fear that she would be tracked down and killed.  Olga lived in England for most of her life, and the granddaughter lived in Canada.  This plus other details was in the prologue which I finally read last night.

The thing that got me was….Olga’s brother was an officer in the Tsar’s army during WWI and was one of the men treated by the Empress who gave him a saint medal as a keepsake – too cool cause that is what I researched about the Empress and her Red Cross work.

Depending on how Olga goes….my back-up is Modern Middle East by David Sorenson.  I am very curious about the Middle East, and this author doesn’t seem boring and he covers the information in an interesting way (I only read p 123).

We shall see…..This could all change tomorrow.

Joe:

Joe will be reading Haroun and the Sea of Stories, a book for young people by Salman Rushdie, and possibly its new companion piece, Luka and the Fire of Life. If he gets time, he will also start in on Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art by Shizuo Tsuji, which is, in a way, his still-unopened birthday present.”

Dianne:

Recently on my way to and from work, I listened to Ken Follett’s new book Fall of Giants.  Titles I really enjoy on tape I often then read the text, and it is a different kind of experience.  Follett includes a Cast of Characters in the paper version that is most helpful because the book is a large historical novel and sometimes while listening to the reader I would lose track and say to myself,  “who is this character again?”

I always enjoy Follett’s work.  Even if at times I don’t like the setting or the subject matter of some of his books, I do enjoy the stories he tells.  I plan to read much of the book over the holidays.  We have a copy of this book in our library, in the Popular Book Collection, so check it out.

Pat:

 Adonis: selected poems

Adonis spoke at the Rothko Chapel in October and I was fortunate to attend. I plan to read his “Selected Poems” during the holidays, a book of exquisite poetry.

Nominated 3 times for the Nobel Prize in literature, Adonis, now 80, was born in Syria and fled to Lebanon in 1956 after a year’s imprisonment for political activities.  He has lived in Paris since the 1980’s. His poetry is noted for its mystical imagery in an experimental style. 

Considered one of the Arab world’s greatest living poets, his influence on Arabic literature has been likened to that of T. S. Eliot’s on English verse.  I may also read someday his prose work “Sufism and Surrealism” which is, I suppose, the blending of the contradictory. After saying all this I must say that in meeting him I found him absolutely adorable.

Obata’s Yosemite  

Another exquisite book on my holiday list is a beautifully illustrated book of paintings, woodcuts, letters & journal entries of a Japanese artist traveling through Yosemite in the 1920’s. This book came to my attention when it was featured on Ken Burn’s PBS series on Yosemite. Obata recalled his visit to Yosemite as “the greatest harvest for my whole life and future in painting.”

Obata taught art at the University of California, Berkeley, but was interned at a Japanese detention center during WWII where he organized an art school for the camp residents. After his release he returned to the university and continued teaching until his death in 1975 at the age of 90.

The life of an artist is sometimes as fascinating as the art and this is true of both Adonis and Obata.

 

 

An Old Fashion Girl by Louisa May Alcott

I always read a children’s book during the holidays.  This year I have chosen one from our reference librarian Mary Kelleher’s reading list for her MLA class “The American Girl in Literature”.  A country girl visits the big city, 19^th century style.  Will she be happy?

I expect to be very cozy reading it.

Jim:

 I plan to read On Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier.  Some of this book appeared in the New Yorker with Frazier writing for the magazine as a “reporter at large”.   I am looking forward to experiencing Siberia without the mess and fuss of actually going there.  The New York Times calls it “an uproarious, sometimes dark yarn filled with dubious meals, broken-down vehicles, abandoned slave-labor camps and ubiquitous statues of Lenin — ‘On the Road’ meets ‘The Gulag Archipelago’.” You can read the complete review here at

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/books/review/Hammer-t.html 

From our Popular fiction/nonfiction display, I plan to take out Four Fish: the future of the last wild food by Paul Greenberg.

Mary:

I have not settled on what exactly I want to read yet.  I am busily stacking mental piles of books in my head.  If I tried to read them all, I wouldn’t come back to work until sometime in 2015. 

First I am eagerly watching the Popular Books Collection to see what is left when the holiday begins.  I have cast my eye particularly on Christmas at the Mysterious Bookshop (15 specially commissioned mysteries by such authors as Mary Higgins Clark, Anne Perry and Lawrence Block), The Summer We Read Gatsby (Two very different sisters have to come to an agreement about what to do with their inherited Hamptons cottage), The Perfect Reader  (a daughter is named literary executor to her father’s secret love poems), The Cookbook Collector (combines corporate greed with the aesthetics of rare book collecting – which will triumph?).  I love books about books.  I am also fascinated by the Patrick McManus mystery The Huckleberry Murders, having read McManus’s belly-laugh funny “non-fiction” works such as The Night the Bear Ate the Goombaw and They Shoot Canoes, Don’t They?   Then there’s also and The Anthill by E.O. Wilson (a modern day Huck Finn is transformed by the study of ants – and who wouldn’t be?) and Scout, Atticus and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of To Kill a Mockingbird (by the child star of the movie) and Last Dog on the Hill: The Extraordinary Life of Lou (I can’t resist a dog book or a dog movie) and . . . .  See what I mean?  Please come to the library and check out books from our popular collection and save me the agony of having to choose!

On the other hand, this has been a somewhat stressful semester, so I am inclined to indulge in some intellectual “cheetos” as well.  My favorite “cheetos” are regency novels, so I may gather together some of my favorite Georgette Heyer novels, make some hot chocolate or Earl Grey tea and snuggle under the comforter with the puppy and a couple of kittens and not stick my nose out the door until it’s time to come back to work.

Reading?? In a library??!?

Yes.

Doherty Library loves technology.  We have research computers and a computer lab.  We have over 130 online databases, over 40,000 online journals, and over 30,000 online books.  But . . . .

We still love to read.  Books.  That we can hold.  And we know that our patrons do too.  But, let’s face it, we’re all so busy.  Who has time to go to the public library after spending hours (and hours) of study time at Doherty?  Or if  you teach, who has the energy, after being in class, grading papers, going to meetings, and researching for the next journal article, to stop off at the public library before heading home to homework help, dinner, housework and laundry?  Or staff, you’ve been at work for at least nine hours helping students and faculty, you face a lengthy commute home, you’re tired, you’re hungry.  Do you really want to try to get to the public library – if you can find one open?

Well Doherty Library has the solution!  We have instituted a new, small, popular fiction and non-fiction collection.  As you enter the library, the books are located to your left in the main lobby on display shelves.

Sponsored by the Friends of Doherty Library, these titles are available for circulation to students, faculty, staff, the Friends of Doherty Library and UST alumni.   You can check out these books for four weeks with renewals possible.  Every month, new titles will be added until we have 100 books in this circulating collection.  Doherty librarians and staff  have made a pledge of honor we will not check out the books until the community has had a chance to read them (but we can only contain ourselves for so long so stop by soon).

And there’s more!

There’s a quiet, little corner for reading the new books (or newspapers, magazines, or anything else you want).  We have created a “reading nook” in the silent reading room where you can relax, drink coffee (or tea),  and read to your heart’s content.  We hope you’ll take some time out of your busy schedules to stop in, sit a spell and rejuvenate yourself with a fun book.

Annual Fall Book Sale at Doherty Library

The annual fall book sale will be held at the Doherty Library and is open to the general public from Thursday, October 28 through Sunday, October31 during regular library hours.  A special preview day has been set aside for UST students, staff, faculty, and members of the Friends of the Doherty Library on Wednesday, October 27^th

This year we have many titles covering International Studies and Political Science especially Russian Studies and History.  We also have many books in Literature and Theology.

Schedule: Wednesday, 8 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.

Thursday, 8 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.

Friday, 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, 10:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, 1:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.

Cost: Hardbound books are $2 and paperbacks are $1.

For more information contact: Dianne Dallmann at 713-525-2182.

New Faculty Lecture Series at Doherty Library: “From Illumination to I-Pads: A Very Brief History of the Art Book” September 29

Dr. Charles Stewart

Dr. Charles Stewart, Assistant Professor from the Art History Department, will speak at Doherty Library on “From Illumination to I-Pads: A Very Brief History of the Art Book”.  The presentation will trace the history of the illustrated book, highlighting the key stages during the Middle Ages, while touching on where we stand in the 21st century. This lecture is part of the New Faculty Lecture Series sponsored by the Friends of Doherty Library.

The rise of religious academic learning led to innovations in illuminated manuscript technology and production. The spread of Judaism and Christianity throughout the ancient Mediterranean prompted the replacement of the scroll by the codex. With the introduction of monastic scriptoriums in Ireland, the seeds of European universities were planted. Academies bloomed in the age of Scholasticism when picture books reached their aesthetic apex.

Today the academy once more finds itself in a period of transition—the computers that universities have developed and embraced are now replacing the codex.

The lecture will be held at the Doherty Library, main lobby, Wednesday, September 29,  beginning at 12:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public. For more information, contact James Piccininni at jpicci@stthom.edu.

Faculty Publications Recognition Event at Doherty Sept. 22

The Doherty Library will host the first UST Faculty Publications Recognition Event to be held on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM., at the main lobby of Doherty Library. Faculty, staff and students are invited to an informal reception to celebrate the past year’s publications and creative works produced by the University of St. Thomas faculty.

Publications from the School of Arts and Sciences, the Cameron School of Business and the School of Education will be featured. Dr. Dominic Aquila, the Vice President of Academic Affairs, and Dr. Michele Simms, the Director of the Center for Faculty Excellence, will speak briefly on our publication successes this year. Refreshments will be served. The event is sponsored by the Vice President of Academic Affairs, the Center for Faculty Excellence and the Friends of the Doherty Library. For more information, contact James Piccininni at jpicci@stthom.edu