Just a reminder that Ohrstrom Library is open Thursday December 15th and Friday December 16th from 8:30am to 5:00pm. Beginning on Saturday December 17th the Library will be closed through Monday January 2nd.
Come by, browse and borrow some recreational reading, listening, or viewing to enjoy during your well-deserved break. Also remember that while you are away, you may still access all of Ohrstrom Library’s ebooks and subscription databases by logging into vpn.sps.edu using your SPS user account.
We would love to see you before you leave, and many, many thanks for being such a warm and supportive Library community.
Sincere best wishes and happy holidays from all of us at Ohrstrom Library.
Holiday Hours
Wednesday, December 14
7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Thursday, December 15
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Friday, December 16
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 17 – Monday, Jan. 2
CLOSED
Tuesday, Jan. 3 – Wednesday, Jan. 4
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Thursday, January 5 – Regular Hours Resume
7:30 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.
As always, you can see the Library hours HERE, or by clicking the link in the menu at the top of the page.
A new archives exhibit is in place in Ohrstrom Library and a new online exhibit is now available through the Ohrstrom Library Digital Archives. A selection of photographs are on display in the library on the upper level display cases located in the lobby. These photos from the archives collection outline the history of the sport of cricket at St. Paul’s School, and the continuing tradition of Cricket Holiday.
Last Thursday saw the announcement of the fall term’s best known and most anticipated surprise, Cricket Holiday, but it is possible that only a few students are aware of the history of the sport that brought it into being. The archives photo display, accompanied by excerpts from Arthur Stanwood Pier’s book, St. Paul’s School 1855-1934, helps to illustrate the strong tradition of cricket at St. Paul’s School.
Additionally, an online exhibit, called In Celebration of Cricket, provides further information gathered from researching the details of specific photographs using the resources in the St. Paul’s School archives. Fourteen images have been selected for the exhibit from the thirty-two photographs that have recently been digitized and added to the archives online database from the archives collection.
Next time you are in the library take a few minutes to view the physical exhibit, and click through the link below to view the online exhibit as well.
Ohrstrom Library provides access to an ever-growing collection of eBooks. The library currently has 86,000+ eBooks available, all with unlimited simultaneous user access.
There are two methods of locating eBooks: using the online catalog or by visiting any of the library’s individual eBook collections available on the library’s eBook page.
Library eBook collections are viewable on most versions of the following: PCs, tablets and hand-held devices.
This short video tutorial describes accessing the libraries eBooks and demonstrates two of the library’s current collections:
As always, when accessing the library’s digital collections when off the grounds, please log in with your SPS user credentials to: vpn.sps.edu
Please feel free to contact Lura Sanborn (lsanborn at sps dot edu) with your question(s) about the library’s eBook collections.
Welcome to students just beginning their St. Paul’s School experience, and welcome back to those of you with familiar faces. The crisp excitement of the new school year is in the air, eagerly blowing across Lower School Pond and up the steps of Ohrstrom Library. There will be much that is reassuringly familiar when you come into the Library, but you will also discover much that is refreshingly new.
New and exciting this year is the addition of eReference to the Ohrstrom Library’s collection which will allow for online access to hundreds of dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks and guides. Several hundred new eBook titles have also been added, and a new database, NBC Learn, opens an electronic gateway to thousands of historic and current event videos, images, newsreels, and broadcasts.
Unchanged is the commitment of the Ohrstrom Library staff to providing the best academic resources possible to St. Paul’s School students, faculty and staff. Welcome back to your library.
St. Paul’s School founded the Advanced Studies Program in 1958 to provide talented New Hampshire public and parochial high school juniors with challenging educational opportunities, and use of the Ohrstrom Library is integral to this enriching experience. The staff of Ohrstrom Library welcomes ASP faculty and students and hope that you enjoy and take advantage of its collections and services this summer.
Did you know?
The ASP went co-ed in 1961 (10 years before SPS).
The ice-cream machine in the Upper is provided by the ASP.
In its early years, the ASP was primarily focused on math and science, offering such courses as: biology, calculus, chemistry and physics.
The evening door count at the library is at its highest during the ASP.
Man and Media, a pre-cursor to today’s Mass Media course, was taught by author, and former SPS and ASP faculty member, Richard Lederer.
College Counseling services were added to the ASP in 1979.
In a green effort, the school dining hall went trayless in 2006 – beginning with that year’s ASP class.
The former Rector, William R. Matthews, Jr., SPS ’61, is also a former ASP faculty member.
Despite the flood of May 2006, the ASP still ran, but without access to Hargate or Ohrstrom Library.
There are currently over 10,000 ASP alumni!
What else was going on in 1958? The American singing group, The Jamies, the doo-wop duo of Tom and Serena Jameson, released the single “Summertime, Summertime” for Epic Records, which reached #26 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
The ice in the School Pond this year has averaged about thirty-six inches thick. Under the S. P. S. rink, which is kept clear of snow, it must have been close to the record thickness of forty-six inches.
