Downloadable Tax Forms

It’s that time of year again! Please use the links below to download and print your state and federal tax forms for 2011.

IRS Federal Forms and Publications

Iowa Department of Revenue Forms

Illinois Department of Revenue Tax Forms

Library Holiday Hours

The St. Ambrose University Library will close for the holidays at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 22nd and reopen at 7:45 a.m. on Monday, January 2nd. Have a safe and peaceful winter break.

Library Winterim Hours

Winterim:

Friday, December 16th-Tuesday, January 17th

Monday-Thursday

7:45 a.m.-9:30 p.m.

Friday

7:45 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Saturday

10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.

Sunday:

1-5p.m.

SAU Library Food Drive and Kitchen Aid Mixer Drawing

Wow! 1,030+ food items were collected as part of the SAU Library Food Drive that ended on November 17^th. The large table in the Technical Services department of the library was stacked high with boxes of food.

Staff members, Glenn and Jolene from the food pantry at The Center were very excited and thankful for the generous donation and collected the boxes and bags on November 18^th.

As part of the food drive, the library donated a Kitchen Aid mixer to be “raffled off”. For each food item donated, an entry slip was included in the drawing for the mixer. SAU’s Head of Security, Bob Christopher did the honors and drew the winning name.

SAU student, Sarah Medland was the excited winner of the Kitchen Aid mixer.

Drawing and Food Drive at the SAU Library! NOW UNTIL NOVEMBER 17TH!

WIN a Kitchen Aid Mixer!

*$360 retail value

 Now through November 17th

 Bring non-perishable food items to the Library Circulation desk

to enter the drawing.

One entry per one food item.

All donated food goes to the Food Pantry 

at The Center

located at 14th & Brady in Davenport,

which is part of the Hilltop Campus Village.

On November 17th at Noon in the Library Atrium, we will draw the winning ticket.

Need not be present to win.

SAU Library Archives 3rd Annual Open House

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 Approximately twenty-five visitors came through the University Archives on Sat. Oct. 8, Homecoming weekend, to attend an open house. Graduates spanning from 1949-1988, along with their current students, spouses, and friends stopped by to look at yearbooks, newspapers, catalogs, photographs, and commencement programs. One of the most popular research questions was to verify tuition costs when they were a student. In the 1950s, tuition was just $250 a semester with room & board at another $250. How times have changed!

This is always a wonderful event where people take a moment to stroll down memory lane, look up a relative, former girlfriend or old friend, and share fun stories. As the archivist, I always learn something new. This year I heard about the Monogram Madness fundraiser – a theater production put on by the Letterman’s Club every year in the 1950s. I learned that in the early 1950s, freshman who were required to wear beanies wore them up until Homecoming. At the Homecoming bonfire they were allowed to throw them into the bonfire – which explains the lack of donations of beanies from these years! The former Student Body President shared his campaign strategy with me which involved writing a campaign platform for the Ambrosian News that talked about “sex & violence” – truly gripping stuff, securing the vote of the entire freshman class, having his portrait painted on a sheet and tacked to the side of a building, and posting a sign above him at his job at the dish line in the dining hall that said “Get Duax out of the garbage and into the White House.” Finally, one alumnus found his father listed in the 1927 catalog and then read a spoof about him in the Ambrosian Quarterly – a literary publication in the 1920s. The writers wrote a fake bulletin dated 10 years into the future announcing that Mike “Bullet Head” Gibbons was going to be hanged for the murder of Dunn (a classmate in 1927). This all arose from a heated argument about Dunn cheating him out of his marbles…a wife and 14 children were at the station to see him for the last time.

Each day can be a treasure hunt in the archives.

We always welcome research questions. Please contact Heather Lovewell at LovewellHeatherL@sau.edu.

Edible Banned Book Contest Results

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Thanks to all who participated in making this year’s Edible Banned Books Contest a grand success. All of the entries were wonderful! The following prizes were awarded:

 

Most artistic: A Clockwork Orange by Julia Dickinson, Library

Most Punny: Lord of the Bings by Carol DeVolder and Katie Trujillo, Psychology

Best Individual Entry: Joy of Sex by Sara Stahmer, student

Best Group Entry AND People’s Choice: The Monster Book of Monsters by Bailey and Kelley Keimig.

 

Thanks to all who entered the contest:

Michael Hustedde, “The Bluest ‘I’”,English

Tanika McNeal, “To Kill an Angry Bird”, student

T.J. Green, “And Mango Makes Tea”, community friend

Allison Haack,”The Hamburger Games” and “And Tang Makes Three”, community friend

Becky Morgan,”Perfect”, community friend

Joyce Haack, “Pickles and Limes”, Library

 

Thanks to Sodexo, the SAU Bookstore, and Bruegger’s Bagel Bakery for donating  fantastic edible prizes.

BANNED BOOKS WEEK 2011

Throughout the United States, children are returning to school. Teachers are sending out their lists of required readings, and parents are beginning to gather books. In some cases, classics like “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” “The Catcher in the Rye,” and “To Kill a Mocking Bird,” may not be included in curricula or available in the school library due to challenges made by parents or administrators. Since 1990, the American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) has recorded more than 10,000 book challenges. A challenge is a formal, written complaint requesting a book be removed from library shelves or school curricula.

It takes a commitment on the part of librarians, teachers, parents, and students,  to ensure that most challenges are unsuccessful and reading materials like “Pillars of the Earth,” “The Kite Runner,”  the Harry Potter series, and the Twilight series remain available. Even when the motivation to ban or challenge a book is well intentioned, the outcome is detrimental. Censorship denies our freedom as individuals to choose and think for ourselves. In support of the right to choose books freely for ourselves, the St. Ambrose University Library will host several events during Banned Books Week [September 24−October 1, 2011 ], an annual celebration of our right to access books without censorship. This year’s observance commemorates the most basic freedom in a democratic society—the freedom to read freely—and encourages us not to take this freedom for granted. Since its inception in 1982, Banned Books Week has reminded us that while not every book is intended for every reader, each of us has the right to decide for ourselves what to read, listen to or view. American libraries are the cornerstones of our democracy. Libraries are for everyone, everywhere. Because libraries provide free access to a world of information, they bring opportunity to all people. Now, more than ever, celebrate the freedom to read @ your library!

The Women’s Connection’s 5th Annual International Women Author Series event

Click on the photo to view Mariane Pearl's official Website and to read reviews and excerpts from her work.

In partnership with area libraries, The Women’s Connection of the Quad Cities will be bringing in Mariane Pearl, acclaimed author and wife of slain Wall Street Journal correspondent, Daniel Pearl.

Mariane Pearl is the recipient of the National Headliners award for magazine writing, the Time Warner women award, the Woman of the year award, The White House project award, the AWRT (American Women in Radio and Television) award, the Internews award for excellence in international reporting, the Vital Voices award, “El Mundo” editorial award in Spain, and the Prix “Vérité” in France for excellence in non-fiction writing, among other honors.

See the Women’s Connection Event Page for details about the author. Please come to the SAU Library to check out Pearl’s books or to pick up a bookmark featuring the author and the event.

 EVENT DETAILS:

 Mariane Pearl:

 Best-selling Author of:  A Mighty Heart and In Search of Hope.

Event Date & Time: Thursday, November 10th, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Event location: Jumer’s Casino and Hotel, Rock Island

Cost: $35 for members and non-members, $300 for a table of 10

Online reservation is available at:

https://www.womens-connection.org/event-registration.html?type=calendar&id=25

Sponsor:  The Stanley Foundation

Book Discussions On Campus

The Library staff and the Women’s Studies Department at SAU would like to invite you to join us in some book discussions this fall.

Oct. 2, at 7:00 p.m., Women’s Studies Resource Center, Ambrose Hall Room 224

I am the Central Park Jogger, which is the memoir of Trisha Meili and how she overcame the consequences of her attack in Central Park, will be discussed.  Trisha Meili will be the keynote speaker later that week in Bettendorf at the Waterfront Convention center for the Family Resources Honor the Women breakast. The book is a gripping read and raises lots of important questions about race and class privileges.

Nov. 13, at 7:00 p.m., Women’s Studies Resource Center, Ambrose Hall Room 224. A book discussion about The City of Tranquil Light, written by Bo Caldwell, will be led by Owen Rogal,  member of the English faculty. Women’s Studies is hosting the book discussion.  Copies of the book will be on reserve and available for check-out at the Library.

Bo Caldwell will also be the Baecke Endowment for the Humanities Lecturer at SAU with Finding Faith and Fiction in China.
(Wednesday, Nov. 30, 7 p.m. Rogalski Center.)

Another book discussion to look forward to this fall:

Date To Be Determined:

Brave Girl Eating: A Family’s Struggle with Anorexia, by Harriet Brown. This book discussion will be cosponsored by the Quad Cities Eating Disorders Consortium and the SAU Counseling Center. Brown will be speaking at SAU in October. More information about this discussion will be posted as it is received.