Primary Source Round-up: Something for Everyone

Lura Sanborn – Reference Librarian Gathering primary sources for your Fifth Form paper?  Ohrstrom Library offers the following sources and suggestions: Online Databases: These databases, available through the Library’s website, are those most commonly used by Fifth Formers looking for … Continued

A Friend Indeed: Fifth Form Paper Research Guide

Lisa Laughy – Archives Assistant Just in time for the Fifth Form Humanities research paper assignments, Ohrstrom Library staff members have prepared an online research guide to help you through the process. The Fifth Form Paper Research Guide has been … Continued

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 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 Set: Milestone Documents in American History

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Lura Sanborn – Reference Librarian Milestone Documents in American History (four volumes) edited by Paul Finkelman.  Dallas: Schlager, 2008. Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 973 F495M 133 primary source documents key to U.S. history are included in this set.  … Continued