SAU BEEbrary Blog

Exhale, please, if you’re holding your breath in anticipation of the announcement of the winning blog title for our humble library blog. There were so many fantastic entries that our judges are still deliberating. (The snow day delayed the process a bit, too.) Please check back. I hope to have a winner by Friday. Thanks!

We received THIRTY NINE wonderful submissions for our Name That Library Blog! contest. Thanks to all who are participating. We are now in the judging phase of the competition and will announce the winner on Wednesday, December 12. Please check back!

Attention SAU faculty, staff, and students, you only have two more weeks to submit your entry to the SAU Library Name That Library Blog Contest!!!

Here are the fantastic entries we’ve received so far:

SAU Library Diary

~Seema Batavia, SAU student

SAU Write it, or SAU Say it (with the U acting as YOU)

~Anonymous, SAU student

The “Bees’ Decree”

~Dustin Renwick , SAU student

A Walk on the Literary Side of SAU

~Brook Lohmeier, SAU student

The BEEbrary Blog

~Sean Whitten, SAU student

SAU Līb Vibe

~Susan Green, SAU Library Staff

Drone On

~Debbie Detrick, SAU Department of Mathematics

The Apiarist

~Debbie Detrick, SAU Department of Mathematics

The Apian Way (a nifty tie-in between bees, the Appian Way, Catholicism, and St. Ambrose!)

 ~Debbie Detrick, SAU Department of Mathematics

SAU Brew

~Diane Reid, SAU Staff, College of Business

Hive Jive

~Stella Herzig, SAU Library Staff

Bits & Bytes

~James O’Gorman, SAU Library Staff

Bees &  Bytes

~Stella Herzig, SAU Library Staff

The Ambrose Post

~James O’Gorman, SAU Library Staff

The SAU Review

~James O’Gorman, SAU Library Staff

SAU Bees Go, Fight, READ!!

~Mary Shaw , SAU student

SAU Peer Review

~Anonymous

My-brary News & Notes

~Anonymous

The Buzz Broadcast

~C. Wolf , SAU student

Hearsay Hive

~C. Wolf , SAU student

Literary Lending Land

~C. Wolf , SAU student

Literary Loans

~C. Wolf, SAU student

Land of Literary Loans

~C. Wolf, SAU student

Bees Biz

~Debra L. Leibold , SAU student

Stinger Lingo

~Catherine Moneysmith, SAU College for Professional Studies

Blazing Bee Blog

~Catherine Moneysmith, SAU College for Professional Studies

Ambrose Alley

~Catherine Moneysmith, SAU College for Professional Studies

Library Buzz

~Anonymous

Circulation Percolations

~Barry Ferm, SAU Dept. of Chemistry

Cyber Stacks

~Barry Ferm, SAU Dept. of Chemistry

Ether Stacks

~Barry Ferm, SAU Dept. of Chemistry

Reads & Writes

~Barry Ferm, SAU Dept. of Chemistry

Booksie Looksie,  or  Book-see Look-see   

~Barry Ferm, SAU Dept. of Chemistry

Ambrose Anecdotes

~Patricia Vogele Rekiere, ‘58 SAU Alum  Scottsdale, AZ

Buzzette or Buzz-ette

~Nancy Marquardsen, SAU Iowa National Board Candidate  Support Program  

BEELog

~Maggie Woods, SAU Dept. of Education   

Buzz Off

~Maggie Woods, SAU Dept. of Education  

The Bees Bugle

~Emma DeMarr, SAU future student

Entries for the Name That Library Blog! contest must be submitted by blog post or email by Monday, November 26, 2007. Each entry should be submitted by posting to the Fun Stuff page of  The Saint Ambrose University Library Blog or by email to RossLeslieM@sau.edu. For more information click here or on the Fun Stuff Link at the top of this page.

“The Picture of Dorian Gray,” by Oscar Wilde, is the November selection of the St. Ambrose University book discussion group, SAU-READ. You are invited to join the group on Sunday, Nov. 11 at 6:30 p.m. in the St. Ambrose University Library on campus. Participation in the group is free and refreshments will be served. An SAU student will serve as facilitator.

For more information on SAU-READ,  go to http://library.sau.edu/libgen/SAUREAD.htm

A name says a lot, wouldn’t you agree? Our library’s recent name change from O’Keefe Library to the St. Ambrose University Library forced our pithy but expressive blog title into premature obsolescence. The O’Keefe Brief is no more. The Saint Ambrose University Library Blog just doesn’t have the same ring to it. Please help us out by participating in our “Name That Library Blog!” contest. For details click here or on the Fun Stuff link at the top this page.

Please join the group St. Ambrose University Library-Facebook Branch on Facebook!

For those who don’t know, Facebook is an online social networking utility that allows users to communicate with others in a shared network. Our Facebook group was created as a meeting place for students, faculty, and staff of St. Ambrose University to learn about library news and events and to communicate with library staff and each other. We will post up-to-date information about coming attractions and be available to answer any library or research related questions. As a member of our group, you will receive periodic messages to alert you to library events and news. Meet us at our Facebook Branch!

Wi-Fi is now available throughout the library ! The SAU Library, with the SAU bookstore and the Rogalski Center, is the third building on campus to provide wireless Internet access. Members of the SAU community may use their computer username and ID to log on, SAU guests may obtain a username and ID from the Reference Desk. Laptops for in-library use are available for check out by SAU community members at the Circulation Desk.

The Library is sponsoring a photo contest – “Catch Someone Reading” – as   part of the Year of the Book Festival. You are invited to submit your photo of a person or group of people that you have caught in the act of reading. All  photos will be put on display in the Library. Prizes will be awarded in several  categories. Guidelines are as follows:

• Photos should be at least 5” x 7” and no bigger than 8” x 10”.
• Photos can be either black and white, or color.
• Photos should be mounted on poster board to facilitate display.
• Photos can be recent or older.
• Contest is open to SAU faculty, staff, students, and alumni.

The deadline to submit photos is October 30, 2007. Photos may be submitted to either the Circulation or Reference desk at the Library.  Please be sure your name and email address appear on the back of your photo.

 Hello, all SAU Read! bookgroup participants. Please be advised that the group discussion of  Blood Brothers: Among the Soldiers of Ward 57 that was originally scheduled for Sunday, October 16th has been postponed until Sunday, October 28th.  Hope to see you there!

(SAU-READ! is open to faculty, staff, students, and members of the larger community and meets in the St. Ambrose University Library at 6:30 p.m. on designated dates. Discussion is facilitated on a rotating basis by SAU faculty, staff, and students. If you love to read and to talk about books, join SAU-READ!)

First annual International Women Authors Series featuring Anchee Min, Chinese immigrant and best-selling author of Red Azalea, Becoming Madame Mao and The Last Empress.

• Thursday, November 1st

•  5:30 to 7:30 p.m. (hors d’oeuvres will be served, cash bar)

• Radisson Quad City Plaza, Davenport
  Tickets: $30, or $250 for corporate or book club tables of 10

Registration deadline: Monday, October 29th

Click here to REGISTER ONLINE .

  *Sponsored in partnership with area libraries