New Issue of “Off the Shelf” Now Available
The spring 2020 issue of Washington University Libraries’ magazine Off the Shelf is now available online! The magazine covers library news, exhibits, special events, and more. Check it out!
ACLU-MO History Spotlight: Release Time for Religious Instruction
Release Time for Religious Instruction, 1940–1948 In the 1940s, the St. Louis city public school let students (with parental permission) participate in “release time,” which allowed them to go to church for class, with attendance counting as part of their school day. This created a co...
ACLU-MO History Spotlight: School Desegregation
Ending Segregated Education Starting in the 1940s, the St. Louis Civil Liberties Committee began working with the local NAACP and Urban League chapters on civil rights efforts. This followed the pattern established by Roger Baldwin in founding the ACLU, ensuring that work on “inter-racial q...
ACLU-MO and Racial Justice: 1940s
ACLU-MO in the 1940s In the years before World War II, the St. Louis Civil Liberties Committee was a small organization. In March 1940 St. Louis had 47 members, and an annual budget of just under $300 (roughly $5,000 in 2020 dollars). There was no paid staff. Board meetings were held in officer...
Violence and conflict in Latin America
More new titles from the Guadalajara book fair centered on violence and conflict in Latin America. Álvarez Cuartero, Izaskun (editor). Conflicto, negociación y resistencia en las Américas Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca. 2017. Amat, Núria. Reina De América. , 2017....
ACLU-MO Early Years: 1930s
The St. Louis Civil Liberties Committee began on May 7, 1920, with about a dozen volunteers, both men and women. For its first decades, the group and its actions remained focused on advocacy and education about civil rights. By 1932, the national ACLU noted that St. Louis was focusing “chie...
2019 Guadalajara Book Fair Titles about Gender & Sexuality Studies
From the 2019 Guadalajara Book Fair, some titles about Gender and Sexuality Studies: Bimbi, Bruno. El fin del armario: lesbianas, gays, bisexuales y trans en el siglo XXI. 2017. Listen to an interview with Bruno Bimbi at Marea Editorial in Argentina. Cardona Rod...
WUSTL LabArchives Electronic Lab Notebook Training (5/19/20 & 5/27/20)
LabArchives Introductory Session – Learn to quickly and easily create a LabArchives notebook to manage your research data securely online. Other topics covered will include access management, adding and managing content, and collaboration tools. Registration is required. Select the session below ...
DSTS Series: Free and Open Source Tools (CURL, ExamDiff, Leaflet)
Check back every week. We will share staff picks of some of our favorite free and open source tools! Rick Allard Systems Engineer CURL is a free command-line tool for use with HTTP servers and other protocols. The lead developer won a prize for his work. It comes with macOS and Linux. You...
Connecting Contexts: The Modern Literature Collection and The Letters of Samuel Beckett
We are pleased to present Connecting Contexts: The Modern Literature Collection and The Letters of Samuel Beckett, a new digital exhibit that connects one of the world’s major Beckett research collections with the authoritative, multi-volume set of his published correspondence. The sections...
