News & Events
Welcome All New and Returning Students
Welcome! The Fitzgerald Library staff is working hard to insure that you have a safe and productive experience while in the Library. The Library continues to be the perfect place to study, start your research assignments, use computers. or work on a group project,...
Changes to our Minitex Database Collection
Changes to our database packages announced
Antiracism Research Guide
In response to the killing of George Floyd and the world-wide protest demonstrations that his murder has inspired, librarian Kate Johnson has created an Antiracism Research Guide as a resource for those in the Saint Mary’s University community who “seek to contribute more meaningfully to anti-racist work.”
One Book One Minnesota: Second Featured Book 2020
The featured book for Summer 2020 is A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota, edited by Sun Yung Shin (Minnesota Historical Society Press). Ebooks and resources will be available soon.
Reading for Racial Justice Collection
The University of Minnesota Press has recently opened up their collection of titles relating to racial justice for all through August 2020:
MUSE Titles on Confronting Structural Racism
View a selection of temporarily free scholarship from Project MUSE publishers on the history of structural racism in the United States and how the country can realize anti-racist reform.
Library Resources for Summer Courses
Summer School Resources
Use these links to find sources relevant to your courses
“Muse in Focus: Contextualizing Pandemic” from Project Muse
“MUSE in Focus: Contextualizing Pandemic” is a small sampling of temporarily free scholarship from Project MUSE publishers on the broad topic of pandemic and its effects throughout history, in culture, and on humanity as a whole. We hope that bringing these pieces together will help to bring historical and cultural context to the current crisis, so that we may look to the knowledge of the past to guide us forward. (publisher’s description)
Celebrate National Poetry Month
It’s National Poetry Month. To discover the many ways in which you can celebrate this event virtually go to the Academy of American Poets National Poetry Month site.
CREDO Essential Collections Trial
Our CREDO trial from Infobase includes a a large portion of Credo’s Essential Collections.