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The College of St. Scholastica Library
1200 Kenwood Avenue, Duluth, MN 55811
Monday: 7:45 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Tuesday: 7:45 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 7:45 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Thursday: 7:45 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Friday: 7:45 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Saturday: 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Sunday: 12:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
December 20
8:00 a.m. - 4:30 pm.
December 21 - January 5
CLOSED
January 6 - January 10
8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
January 11 - January 12
CLOSED
We had to make the library elves work overtime to get a Santa-worthy sackful of Popular Reading books ready for you just in time for semester break. Finals are never final till you have a book you want to read. Browse our new titles on our Popular Reading Guide.
It’s a list that would make even Krampus smile!
Safe travels from the Library. See you in the New Year!
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.