World Collections Online: Expanding our Global Perspective

Lura Sanborn – Reference Librarian The World Digital Library is a partnership between UNESCO and the U.S. Library of Congress.  The site aims to provide free access to digitized treasures currently housed in libraries, museums & other institutions around the … Continued

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