University Libraries Asks for Support of Rescued Pets

In honor of ASPCA Day, Thursday, April 10, the University Libraries are hosting an exhibit and asking your support for rescued pets. The ASPCA (the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) was founded on April 10, 1866 by Harry Bergh who was outraged at the inhumane treatment of animals.

Photos of rescued pets owned by faculty librarians and library staff are now on exhibit in the atrium of Pius Library. Pets range from dogs to cats to horses. The University Libraries are also sponsoring the Heartland Humane Society of Missouri, a no-kill shelter located in O’Fallon, Mo. The idea for supporting this organization came from Ann Ruzicka, library assistant at the Medical Center Library, who is a foster parent and volunteer.

The Heartland Humane Society of Missouri has a wish list posted on their Web site. Pet items, such as dog collars, leashes, cat toys, puppy and kitten food, etc., can be dropped off at either the Circulation Desk in Pius Library or at the Circulation Desk in the Medical Center Library, from now until May 10.

Please join us in helping our furry friends!

Three New Exhibits in Pius Library

What does Valentine’s Day, the Chinese New Year, and the Nancy McNeir Ring Outstanding Faculty Award have in common? They all have exhibits in Pius Library!

For Valentine’s Day, library staff and students have put together an exhibit of the “Gods and Goddesses of Love.”

On the second floor of Pius is the Chinese New Year exhibit which includes original Chinese objects from the collection of Shu Jiao, Head of Access Services.

Learn about the Nancy McNeir Ring Outstanding Faculty Award from the exhibit on the main floor. Photographs of past winners are included. Any SLU student may nominate a full-time teacher. The faculty member must meet the following criteria: has spent at least 5 years as a full-time teacher at SLU; is an excellent teacher; and demonstrates a commitment to student welfare beyond the classroom.

Alpha Sigma Nu, the Jesuit Honor Society, presents the Nancy McNeir Ring Outstanding Faculty Award annually. This is the oldest student initiated teaching award at SLU, given each year since 1966. The Award honors the memory of Miss Nancy M. Ring, SLU’s first Dean of Women.

To obtain a nomination application, email: alphasigmanu@gmail.com or pick up an application in Pius Library at the Award exhibit. Deadline for applications is March 28, 2008. While you are in Pius, take a look at the “Chinese New Year” and “Gods and Goddesses of Love exhibits.”

Exhibition: Facsimiles of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles

This exhibit is available at Pius XII Memorial Library in the front lobby throughout the month of October.  Please see http://www.slu.edu/libraries/pius/libnws/10-07/exhibit_manu_BI_10_07.html for additional information.

Exhibition: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: St. Louisans Interned by the Japanese in World War II

This exhibition, Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: St. Louisans Interned by the Japanese in World War II, is available for viewing through 15 November 2007, at Pius XII Memorial Library in the Saint Louis Room.  For more information, please see http://www.slu.edu/libraries/pius/libnws/10-07/exhibit_Ord_People_10_07.html

Refugees Even After Death Exhibit Comes to Pius Library

Refugees Even After Death: A Quest for Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation

Photographs by Jonathan Moller
On display in Pius XII Memorial Library
2nd Floor Gallery
April 30 to June 29, 2007

This traveling exhibition of color photographs is intended as an educational tool to tell the story of the recent tragic history of Guatemala: the repression and genocide carried out by state security forces in the early 1980’s and the work for justice, truth, and reconciliation being done within a continued context of impunity and human rights violations in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. Within the context of a thirty-six year civil war, state security forces carried out repression and genocide, murdering over 200,000 people—many of whom were missing until clandestine cemeteries were discovered containing their remains.

Jonathan Moller, the creator of this exhibition is a photographer and human rights activist. For six yeas he worked with the National Coordinating Office on Refugees and Displaced of Guatemala (NCOORD), the Guatemala Accompaniment Project (GAP) and most recently with the Forensic Team of the Office of Peace and Reconciliation of the Quiche’ Catholic Diocese. In Guatemala he collaborated with human rights organizations supporting uprooted populations and photographed the exhumations of clandestine cemeteries with a forensic anthropology team. Moller’s photographs have been widely published and are in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the University of California (Berkeley) Art Museum, among others. Refugees Even after Death: Photographs of Exhumations of Clandestine Cemeteries in Guatemala, funded by the Daniele Agostino Foundation and Amnesty International. Moller received the Fellowship Award from the Society for Contemporary Photography in 2002 and the Henry Dunant Prize for Excellence in Journalism in 2001.

This exhibit is sponsored by Amnesty International – Saint Louis University. For additional information on this exhibit or Amnesty International at SLU, contact Kathryn Jonas at jonask@slu.edu