… listed in a May 3rd article from the St Louis Business Journal. Login to the BizJournals database to see the St. Louis list. From there, link to the full report from Simply Hired, an online job search firm, which covers employment trends nation-wide and the top companies hiring in 25 metro areas.
Want books, videos, and websites to help with writing your resume, interviewing, finding company information and job listings? Check out the Library’s Career Resources guide.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of a major change on the Webster campus in Webster Groves: the transition of the college chapel to a multipurpose auditorium. Winifred Moore Auditorium used to be called the Chapel of All Saints and was the location of daily Mass and various ceremonies.
In 1973, the space was renovated and the religious accoutrements relocated around campus, sold, or given away. Many of the pews were sold to alumni for $50.00 apiece. The chapel was renamed Winifred Moore Auditorium after it was renovated with gifts from Winifred W. Rogers and Elizabeth D. Hyatt in memory of their mother and grandmother, Winifred Moore.
Here are a few pictures of the chapel when it was being used for Mass.
Original Webster College chapel
May 5-10, 2013
The Webster University Library will forgive $1 in fines for each food item donated to Operation Food Search up to $10. Anyone can come to the Library and donate food, even if they don’t have library fines.
The most needed donations right now are:
• boxed individual oatmeal packets • canned chili
• canned meats • canned ravioli
• canned fish • canned fruit
• canned vegetables
Please bring food to the First Floor Service Desk during the Library’s open hours
May 5-9: 8 a.m.-3 a.m. and May 10: 8 a.m. to midnight
For more information contact the First Floor Service Desk at (314) 968-6952.
The library is conducting its triennial satisfaction survey, and we’d like your input to help improve our services. Please visit our survey website page: http://library.webster.edu/libinfo/survey2013.html to fill out a brief survey. Students who complete the survey will be entered into a drawing for an iPod shuffle!
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Love to read? Love to eat? Let’s do both at the Webster University Library’s Edible Book Festival on Monday, April 15, from 12 -1:30 p.m. As part of our 10th anniversary celebration, University faculty, staff, and students and the Webster Groves community are invited to submit an edible book. A special panel of judges will choose the top three edible books. Winners will receive a free baking book and bragging rights for a year.
Edible books are all or partially edible and can look like a book in form and shape, be inspired by a book or author, be a pun of a book title, refer to a book character, reproduce a book cover or just have something to do with books in general. Cake will be served throughout the event for all to enjoy.
Please fill out this form to register as a participant. The deadline for registration is Friday, April 12th. There is no need to register to attend the event.
Need some inspiration? Look at some examples of edible books from other festivals around the country:
Duke University Edible Book Festival
University of Texas Edible Book Festival
National Library Week is held as a reminder of the contributions libraries, and library staff make to their communities every day. This event is free and open to the public. Find directions to the library and parking info.
Directions for participants:
8:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Drop off your edible book at Webster University Library. You may also take time to set up your edible book and make any finishing touches.
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Judging will take place.
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Winners will be announced at noon and edible books are open to be viewed by the public until 1:30 p.m.
1:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Pick up your edible book from the library. Any edible books left after 4:00 p.m. are subject to consumption by library student workers.
Not in Saint Louis? Anyone from our extended and international campuses can also enter to win. Simply post a picture of your edible book on the Library’s Facebook page by 10:30 am on the morning of the event.
Celebrity Judges:
Robin Assner – - Assistant Professor, Art Department
Kelly Boruff – Webster University Student
Tim Brennen – Owner of Cravings bakery and restaurant
Sarah Riss – Superintendent of Webster Groves Schools
Beth Stroble – President of Webster University
Gerry Welch – Mayor of Webster Groves
Questions can be directed to John Watts, Instruction and Liaison Services Librarian at wattsjoh@webster.edu or call (314) 349-7812
You’ve got a paper to write, or a project to work on, and your professor has told you that you need a certain number of articles and books. Now what?
A great place to start is by using one of the Library’s online research guides. We have one for each program, put together by a librarian who specializes in research on that subject. Our contact information is on the guide, as well as ways to contact our reference desk, so you can always ask follow up questions. These guides have tabs to find articles from the best databases for your topic, suggestions for finding books, and much more.
Check out our main page here: http://libguides.webster.edu/. If you ever have any questions about research, don’t hesitate to contact the reference desk by email, chat, phone, or stop by on the 2nd floor. Best of luck with your research!
How do you go about furnishing a new college? That was the challenge faced by the Sisters of Loretto when the St. Louis campus opened in 1916. The Webster University Archives has a copy of the inventory of items bought by Rev. Mother Praxedes, the Superior General of the Sisters of Loretto order. The list provides a glimpse into what it must have been like to attend classes and live in the dorm at the young college.
The standard student dorm room appears to have been furnished with a bed, mattress, feather pillow and bedspread. There were wardrobes for hanging clothes, dressers, chairs or rockers, and small tables with storage called somnoes or chiffoniers.
Student dorm room from the late 1920s.
Many of the rooms came equipped with washstands, bowls and pitchers for washing up. We also see that Mother Praxedes ordered 6 dozen “slop jars” which apparently served as substitute toilets.
As a Catholic college, the chapel also needed to be furnished with pews, a confessional, candlesticks, statues, etc. A sanctuary window from the famous Emil Frei Art Glass Co. cost $200.00.
The list includes many items that are unfamiliar to us or rarely seen today, such as coal hods, somnoes, chiffoniers, mimeographs, hottlers, dimity, chasuble, etc. The total cost of everything on the list came to $17, 836.24, a hefty sum in 1916.
If one of your New Year’s Resolutions was to brush up on your German that you haven’t used since high school or to refresh your French for an upcoming trip to Paris, you’ll be excited to learn about one of the Library’s newest databases – Mango Languages. The perfect tool for getting a little conversational skill in one of 45 languages from Arabic to Vietnamese. There are also courses in English for international students who want to practice. For the adventurous buccaneer, Mango also offers a course in Pirate (Oh my gosh = blow me down). Learn more by logging into the Library databases and navigating to Mango.
The Folger Shakespeare Library launched a new website today where users can get Shakespeare plays for free and also download the source code for the plays. Their press release states: “Users can read the plays online, download PDFs for offline reading, search for keywords within a single play or the whole corpus, and navigate by act, scene, line, or the new Folger throughline numbers. Every word, space, and piece of punctuation has its own place online.”
Visit http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org to find the twelve plays available so far.
One of the topics of the Delegates’ Agenda this fall is the need for more support for students taking standardized tests for reasons such as graduate school admission. Whether you want to practice up for the GRE or a myriad of other tests, resources from Webster University Library can help. We have test prep books and eBooks as well as the online database Learning Express which offers a collection of practice tests and tutorials to prepare for academic and licensing tests. Categories for test preparation include graduate school entrance exams (GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT); Business Writing Skills; Civil Service; Military; Nursing; Resume and Interviewing Success Skills; TOEFL and many more. If you need more information, don’t hesitate to contact a Librarian.
