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The College of St. Scholastica Library
1200 Kenwood Avenue, Duluth, MN 55811
The Library will be CLOSED on Monday, January 20 in honor of Martin Luther King Day.
Congratulations to CSS's Dr. Randall Poole, Professor of Intellectual History and Chair of the Department of Global Humanities, on the launch of Studies in Russian Philosophy, Literature, and Religious Thought, a peer-reviewed open access electronic journal housed at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Dr. Poole serves as an editor and contributor. Studies in Russian Philosophy, Literature, and Religious Thought will soon be indexed by the Directory of Open Access Journals and will be discoverable to the CSS community through SOLAR.
Associate Professor of Art Sarah Brokke will share her work and process from her collaborative project with Poet Kyle Leia titled Irrevocable Wholeness: Poems and Meditations to Hold It All. Brokke's co-collaborative project focuses on healing and whole-hearted navigation of our humanity. Works from this publication include pieces inspired by Leia's writing, and in turn, poems created based on Brokke's paintings.
Raven Room
February 14, 2025
3:40 p.n. CST
Have you heard of handbells? Do you know CSS has a handbell ensemble? Come learn about these amazing melodic percussion instruments from Dr. Derek Bromme and maybe even play them.
Raven Room
February 28, 2025
3:40 p.m. CST
Dr. Kevin Taber's talk will explore how and why African migrant organizations in the Midwestern U.S. build and utilize transnational networks to promote grassroots economic development and local political change in their places or origin, while also helping explain variations in their levels of commitment to, and efficacy in, these efforts.
Raven Room
March 4th, 2025
3:40 p.m. CST
Thanks to the keen eye of Biology Professor Dr. Pam Freeman, the Library was able to add its 138th species The Catalog of Birds.
SAW-WHET OWL
Cryptoglaux acadica - 2024
This species is similar to the preceding [Richardson’s Owl], but is smaller and more of a brownish color all over. It has no ear tufts. They are very quiet little birds, nocturnal in their habits, and cannot see well in the strong light, a fact that has allowed them to be captured by hand from their roosting places in the trees.
Nest. They will usually select the hole of a woodpecker, in which to lay their four white eggs. Their eggs are laid and the young are hatched and out of the nests before the breeding time for woodpeckers, so that the same home may be occupied later by another family.
Text form Reed, Chester. Birds of Eastern North America, 1895.
Image: "Saw-Whet Owls." Stained glass by Jeffrey Russell, from MN Volunteer Magazine.
The Vesper Sparrow seems like the right bird to be seen behind a monastery. Librarian Brad Snelling bagged this liturgical crooner with a combination of old fashioned patience and a new fashioned phone app, Merlin, from the Cornell Ornithology Lab!
"The name Vesper Sparrow is given this bird because of its habit of tuning up along towards evening; it is perhaps more often known as the "Bay-winged Sparrow" or "Grass Finch." they are found chiefly in dry pastures or along dusty roadsides, where they start from the ground in front of us, their white tail feathers showing prominently as they fly, so there will be no mistake as to their identity."
Song. - A clear, ascending series of whistles, given from a fence post or bush top; call, a sharp chip."
Text & image from: Chapman, Frank. Bird Life: A Guide to the Study of our Common Birds. 1919.