COVID-19: Library Services for Fall Semester

Updated for Fall 2021:  Due to COVID-19, we updated Saint Mary’s Libraries’ services for fall semester to promote student safety. See our service updates below, and contact us if you have any questions.

Winona Library

If you visit, please be aware that:

• Face coverings are required.
• Physical distancing is required.
• Food and drink are not allowed in the library.
• You can reserve study rooms.
• You can request items and pick them up at the Circulation Desk. Contact us for more information.

Twin Cities Library

Study Spaces

Main Library Closed

Given space limitations, the Main Library room (LSH 108) will remain closed throughout fall semester due to COVID-19 social distancing constraints. However, you can still pick up materials. See the Doorside Pick-Up section below for more information.

Special Collections Open

A maximum of 3 people at a time may use the Special Collections room (LSH 132), which is open to students and faculty during La Salle Hall building hours (Monday-Friday: 8am-10pm; Saturday: Closed except on 9/25, 10/9, 11/6, 11/13 when it is open 8am-2pm; Sunday: Closed). Due to Covid-19, if you visit, please be aware that in the Special Collections room:

• Face coverings are required.
• Physical distancing is required.
• Food and drink are not permitted.

You can also reserve the Special Collections room.

Hours

See our hours and location for up-to-date information.

Services

Research Help

We can help you via chat 24/7, email, phone, or by Zoom appointment. Note: We are not providing face to face appointments at this time.

Free Mailing

If you cannot make it to campus, we will mail library materials to your home address for free.

Doorside Pick-Up

You can pick up library materials whenever the La Salle Hall building is open. To pick up materials:

1. Request materials online or contact us to pull items from the shelf for you.
2. Wear a mask.
3. Enter the rear entrance of La Salle Hall.
4. Locate the Library’s pick-up bookcart.
5. Pick up the envelope labeled with the first three letters of your last and first name.

Make sure to only pick up items during open La Salle Hall hours (Monday-Friday: 8am-10pm; Saturday: Closed except on 9/25, 10/9, 11/6, 11/13 when it is open 8am-2pm; Sunday: Closed).

New Books: February 2020

What's new at the library?

This month's selection of new books includes how to write a cover letter, social justice and equity, sexual assault, and emotion-focused therapy. Here's what's new at the library this month:

NON-FICTION

• Learning DSM-5 by Case Example
• ICD-10 Casebook: The Many Faces of Mental Disorders--Adult Case Histories According to ICD-10
• Higher Education Administration for Social Justice and Equity
• Handbook of sexual assault and sexual assault prevention
• Learning emotion-focused therapy : the process-experiential approach to change
• Evicted
• Attachment narrative therapy
• Letters to a young teacher
• Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South
• Helping Doctoral Students Write: Pedagogies for supervision
• An Introduction to Service Design: Designing the Invisible
• Stand Out Cover Letters: How to Write Winning Cover Letters That Get You Hired
• Get It Done: Write a Cover Letter
  

Short Closure Wednesday, February 12

The library will be closed from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, February 12 for an all-staff meeting.

If you need assistance during that time, you can email us at tclibrary@smumn.edu and we will respond as soon as we return.

New Books: January 2020

What's new at the library?

This month's selection of new books includes discrimination, inclusion debates, increasing professional effectiveness, and indigenous leadership. Here's what's new at the library this month:

NON-FICTION

• Constructing grounded theory
• Discrimination and Disparities
• Reading Resistance: Discourses of Exclusion in Desegregation and Inclusion Debates
• Theory in Practice: Increasing professional effectiveness
• May Cause Happiness: A Gratitude Journal
• Committed: The Battle over Involuntary Psychiatric Care
• Living Indigenous Leadership: Native Narratives on Building Strong Communities
• Advancing Relational Leadership Research: A Dialogue among Perspectives
• InterViews : learning the craft of qualitative research interviewing
• Addressing Cultural Complexities in Practice: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Therapy
• Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Health and Aging
• Dread Nation
  
  

Library Hours: MLK Jr. Day

Twin Cities Library will be closing early for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, January 20th.  The library will be closing 6:00pm.

Regular hours will resume at 9:00am on Tuesday, January 21st. 

Closed on Saturday, Jan. 18

The library will be closed on Saturday, January 18th due to weather.

If you need assistance while the library is closed, you can reach out using our 24/7 Chat on the library website, or email us at tclibrary@smumn.edu and we will respond as soon as we return.

Regular hours will resume at 9am on Monday, January 20th.

Library Hours: Christmas Holiday

Twin Cities Library will be closed for UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY from Saturday, December 21st through Sunday, December 29th and from Tuesday, December 31st to Wednesday, January 1st.

Twin Cities Library will be opened the following dates from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

• Monday, December 30
• Thursday, January 02 
• Friday, January 03

Regular hours will resume at 9:00 a.m. on Monday, January 6th.

Have a happy and safe holiday!

New Books: December 2019

What's new at the library?

This month's selection of new books includes African American psychology and Positive Psychology in Therapy. Here's what's new at the library this month:

NON-FICTION

• Handbook of African American psychology
• Happiness, Healing, Enhancement: Your Casebook Collection For Applying Positive Psychology in Therapy
• Total Design

DISSERTATIONS

• Transformational leadership in nursing : A meta-analysis of leveraging human capital
• An investigation into the lived experience of practitioners adopting project management methodology into practice of organizational development
• Leveled literacy intervention as a special education intervention
• Implementing open-educational resources in a sustainable manner : A two-case case study using a sustainability model
• Integrating career readiness : Core subject teachers' experiences of partnering with industry professionals
• Christian counselors and their therapeutic work with multicultural clients
• Split-second decision-making in police use-of-force training : A phenomenological study
• A grounded theory of student preservice early childhood teachers' development of understanding of diversity through their initial field experience
• How Working in All-Male Correctional Facilities Impacts the Experience of Burnout among Female Corrections Officers
• Seven Economic Indicators and Foreign Direct Investment in Central Africa Economic and Monetary Community

Short Closure Thursday, December 12

The library will be closed from 11:30 to 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 12 for Christmas Luncheon.

If you need assistance during that time, you can email us at tclibrary@smumn.edu and we will respond as soon as we return.

Short Closure Wednesday, December 4

The library will be closed from 9am to 12 noon on Wednesday, December 4 for an all-staff meeting.

If you need assistance during that time, you can email us at tclibrary@smumn.edu and we will respond as soon as we return.

Library Hours: Thanksgiving

Twin Cities Library will be closed for Thanksgiving from Wednesday, November 27th at 12:00 noon through Sunday, December 1st. Regular hours will resume at 9:00am on Monday, December 2nd. 

Have a happy and safe holiday!

New Books: November 2019

What's new at the library?

This month's selection of new books includes the seventh edition of the APA Manual, information on college writing, and the use of SPSS for introductory statistics. Here's what's new at the library this month:

NON-FICTION

• Child and adolescent development for educators
• Conducting a Successful Major Gifts and Planned Giving Program: A Comprehensive Guide and Resource
• Applied Multivariate Statistics for the Social Sciences
• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition
• Patterns for College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide
• How Colleges Change
• A Pocket Style Manual
• IBM SPSS for Introductory Statistics
• The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook-What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
• Social Work Treatment: Interlocking Theoretical Approaches
• The Learner-Directed Classroom: Developing Creative Thinking Skills Through Art

DISSERTATIONS

• Competencies for counseling polyamorous clients and families. 
• Criterion validation of the Healthcare Managerial Appraisal 
• Analysis of Trauma Coursework in APA-Accredited Doctoral Programs 
• Parents’ Decision Making Process for Choosing Medication as Part of the Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Featured: Homo Mysterious

Homo Mysterious

Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature

Why does religion exist across every human culture? Why do people enjoy the arts? What is consciousness, anyway? This book examines the questions that are as old as humanity itself, and all the evolutionary eccentricities that make up our species. By comparing the origin of the issues to the most current scientific theories, the author looks at what - if anything - we know about these mysterious marvels of human evolution.

Recommended for: humans, “humans”, and people everywhere.

Place a Hold

New Books: October 2019

What's new at the library?

This month's selection of new books includes volumes on coaching, individual education plans, and educational leadership. Here's what's new at the library this month:

NON-FICTION

• Internships in Psychology
• Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches
• The Behavioral Science of Firearms: A Mental Health Perspective on Guns, Suicide, and Violence
• Inclusive Masculinity: The Changing Nature of Masculinities
• Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy
• Researching Lived Experience
• Meaning In Positive and Existential Psychology
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
• Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
• A Face of Courage
• Culturally Proficient Instruction
• Linking Leadership to Student Learning
• Curriculum Leadership
• Classroom Instruction That Works With English Language Learners
• Becoming a Multicultural Educator
• Understanding Human Differences
• Coaching Conversations: Transforming Your School One Conversation at a Time
• Improve Learning by Building Community: A Principal's Guide
• Finding Your Leadership Focus: What Matters Most for Student Results
• Cultural Proficiency: A Manual for School Leaders
• Educational Leadership: A Bridge to Improved Practice
• Clinical Supervision and Teacher Development
• Learning to Improve: How America's Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better
• School Law and the Public Schools
• Enhancing the Art & Science of Teaching with Technology
• Success with IEPs: Solving 5 Common Implementation Challenges in the Classroom
• Cultivating Curiosity in K-12 Classrooms
• Partnering With Parents to Ask the Right Questions: Strengthening School-Family Partnerships
• The Resilient Practitioner: Burnout Prevention and Self-Care Strategies for Counselors, Therapists, Teachers, and Health Professionals
• All about IEPs: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about IEPs
• Special Education Law
• Peer Feedback in the Classroom
• The Will to Lead, the Skill to Teach
• Authentic Learning in the Digital Age
• Leading With Focus: Elevating the Essentials for School and District Improvement
• Literacy Look-Fors: An Observational Protocol for K-6 Classroom Walkthroughs
• Collaborative Teacher Literacy Teams, K-6
• Grading Smarter, Not Harder
• IEPs: Writing Quality Individualized Education Programs
• Renewal Coaching: Sustainable Change for Individuals and Organizations
• How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
• Living the Questions: A Guide for Teacher-Researchers
• Sustaining Change in Schools
• School Leadership That Works
• Transforming Professional Development into Student Results
• The Global Achievement Gap
• Designing and Developing Programs for Gifted Students
• Discipline with Dignity: New Challenges, New Solutions
• Improving Schools for African American Students
• Connecting Teachers, Students, and Standards
• Overcoming Compassion Fatigue: A Practical Resilience Workbook
• Leadership in Turbulent Times
• Unconscious Bias in Schools: A Developmental Approach to Exploring Race and Racism
• Where Teachers Thrive: Organizing Schools for Success

DISSERTATIONS

• Reducing School Suspensions through Alternatives to Traditional Discipline
• Impact of Growth Mindset on Student Math Achievement at the Middle School Level
• Parents' Decision Making Process for Choosing Medication as Part of the Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

VIDEOS

• Patch Adams
• How to Survive a Plague

Short Closure Wednesday, Oct. 16

The library will be closed from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon on Wednesday, October 16th for an all-staff meeting.

If you need assistance during that time, you can email us at tclibrary@smumn.edu and we will respond as soon as we return.

Closure Saturday, October 12

The library will be closed on Saturday, October 12th due to staffing.

If you need assistance while the library is closed, you can reach out using our 24/7 Chat on the library website, or email us at tclibrary@smumn.edu and we will respond as soon as we return.

Regular hours for fall semester will resume at 9am on Monday, October 14th.

Closing Early Wednesday, Oct. 9

The library will be closed after 6:00 pm on Wednesday, October 9th due to staffing.

If you need assistance while the library is closed, you can reach out using our 24/7 Chat on the library website, or email us at tclibrary@smumn.edu and we will respond as soon as we return.

Regular hours for the fall semester will resume at 9am on Thursday, October 10th.

Featured: How to Deliver a TED Talk

How to Deliver a TED Talk

Secrets of the World’s Most Inspiring Presentations

We’re all familiar with TED talks, but how do they come to be? This book looks at the process for developing the “speech of your life”, including easy-to-follow tips that can be incorporated into any speech, presentation, or talk that you give.

Recommended for: students, public speakers, and presenters of information.

Place a Hold

New Books: September 2019

What's new at the library?

This month's selection of new books includes volumes on leadership, occupational stress, and several new dissertations from Saint Mary's students. Here's what's new at the library this month:

NON-FICTION

• The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers 
• Occupational Stress and Well-Being in Military Contexts
• Social Generativity: A Relational Paradigm for Social Change
• The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership
• Geriatric Anesthesiology
• Feedback-Informed Treatment in Clinical Practice: Reaching For Excellence
• Course-Based Undergraduate Research: Educational Equity and High-Impact Practice
• Teaching for Educational Equity: Case Studies for Professional Development and Principal Preparation
• Protocols in the Classroom
• Applied Behavior Analysis Advanced Guidebook: A Manual for Professional Practice
• Minority Entrepreneurship
• Surviving and Thriving In Step-family Relationships
• Transforming Troubled Children, Teens, and Their Families
• Head First PMP: A Learner's Companion to Passing the Project Management Professional Exam
• PMP Project Management Professional Practice Exams
• Heroic Humility: What the Science of Humility Can Say To People Raised On Self-Focus
• The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

DISSERTATIONS

• Understanding Factors Affecting Employee Retention at Banking Call Centers in the Midwest
• A Framework of C.C.C. Model (Culture, Competency and Compensation)For Pay for Performance Deployment in the U.S Manufacturing Industry

Fall Semester Hours

The library hours will be changing for the fall semester.  Beginning on September 1, our weekly hours will be as follows:

Fall Semester Hours

• Monday - Thursday:     9am - 7pm 
• Friday:                          9am - 5pm
• Saturday:                       9am - 3pm
• Sunday:                         CLOSED

If you need assistance after hours, you can use our 24/7 Chat Now service, available on the library website. You can also email us at tclibrary@smumn.edu for a response the next business day.

Have a great autumn!