Selected Websites: They’re “Delicious” and Good For You Too!

Ohrstrom Library is now collecting links to high-quality web sites and storing them in our own Delicious account. For those of you unfamiliar with Delicious, it is the leading social bookmarking website where users store, share and discover bookmarked websites.  … Continued

New Reference Set: Statistical Encyclopedia of North American Professional Sports

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Lura Sanborn – Reference Librarian Statistical Encyclopedia of North American Professional Sports: All Major League Teams and Major Non-Team Events Year by Year, 1876 through 2006 2nd ed. Edited by K. Michael Gaschnitz. McFarland, 2008. Find it in Ohrstrom at: … Continued

New Reference Book: Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography

Lura Sanborn – Reference Librarian Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography edited by John Hannavy, Routledge, 2008. Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 770.9 H19 Photography’s first century is recorded, analyzed and discussed in this new reference set.  Photography is placed in … Continued

New Book Acquisition: Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt

Ohrstrom Library has acquired a copy of Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt published by Cambridge University Press in 2009 (133.43 R72R).  One of the ten Associate Editors for this ambitious publishing project is St. Paul’s own Language Center Director, Margo … Continued

New Reference Book: Women in Congress: 1917 – 2006

Lura Sanborn – Reference Librarian Women in Congress: 1917 – 2006 prepared by The Committee on House Administration of the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2006. Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 328.73 W28 Covering 4 generations, … Continued