April Issue of University Libraries Newsletter Now Available

Inside This Issue
1 Locust St. Library Facility
2 April is ASPCA Month
3 Kurdish Violins @ Pius
3 24 Hour Coming to Pius!
4 EndNote2X Training
5 New e-Resources
6 After the Books Move
7 50th Anniversary Events

Kurdish Violins: From Suleimanya to St Louis

Symposium in Honor of Judge Theodore McMillian

The University Libraries are co-sponsoring with the St. Louis County Historical Society a symposium on local landmark civil rights cases on Wednesday evening, March 25, at 7:00pm in the Knights Room. This symposium is being held to honor what would have been the 90th birthday of Judge Theodore McMillian. McMillian, one of the first African Americans admitted to the Saint Louis University School of Law in the 1940s, passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2006 at the age of 86.

McMillian broke racial barriers throughout his law career. After graduating first in his class at SLU in 1949, McMillian became the first African-American assistant prosecutor in the city of St. Louis. Three years later, Missouri Governor Phil M. Donnelly appointed him the first African-American judge for the city of St. Louis.

In 1972, McMillian was elected to the Missouri Court of Appeals-Eastern District by Governor Warren E. Hearnes and became the first member of his race to serve on that court. In 1978, he became the first and only African-American to reach the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Nominated by President Jimmy Carter, he was unanimously confirmed in 20 minutes. During his tenure, McMillian wrote landmark decisions on desegregation, free speech, civil rights, employment discrimination and affirmative action.

IMPORTANT: Library Materials Moving to LSLF

Beginning March 16 the libraries will be moving over 500,000 items to the new Locust Street Library Facility (LSLF). Professional movers under library faculty oversight will be moving materials over the next four weeks. As a result, access to floors where movers are working will be restricted for the safety of the university community. Materials from the closed floors will be retrieved upon request by staff members at the Circulation desk at each library. Specific and current information on access and what floors are closed will be
posted in the libraries’ circulation areas as the project progresses.

When the Earth Quakes: An Exhibition & Lecture by John Waide

John Waide, University Archivist, has curated an exhibit marking the 100th anniversary of the installation of the first seismograph at SLU and the creation of the Jesuit Seismological Service. It displays more than 50 documents and photographs from the James B. Macelwane Collection in the University Archives. Father Macelwane, who was a member of the SLU faculty and administration from 1925 to his death in 1956, established the first department of geophysics in the Western Hemisphere here at the University in 1925.

The exhibit will run through June 1, 2009, in the St. Louis Room of Pius XII Memorial Library, which is open Monday to Friday, 8:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. For further information, please call the Saint Louis University Archives at 977-3091.

John will also present a lecture in conjunction with the opening of the exhibit, entitled “When the Earth Quakes: James B. Macelwane, SJ, and the Origins of Saint Louis University’s Earth Science Education,” in the Knights Room of Pius XII Memorial Library. This program will look at the work and times of James B. Macelwane, SJ, founder and first dean of the Institute of Technology and originator of SLU’s foray into earth science education. A tour of the exhibition in the St. Louis Room will follow. All are welcome to attend.

Pius XII Memorial Library 50th anniversary website is completed

The 50th anniversary site has been completed!