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New finding aid/collection guide to records of USCCB Legal Department. Originally known as the Department of Laws and Legislation, it was established in December 1919 as one of the five founding departments of the National Catholic Welfare Council (now the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops).  Records include general administration files, subject files regarding congressional matters, education, foreign/international relations, organizations, social security, states, taxation, and tenure of church property, and miscellaneous publications and proceedings. Thanks to Shane MacDonald, Raymond Moore, Carter Rawson, William Dawson, and Nora McCabe for their work on this.

New collection guide/finding aid for William K. Leahy Vatican II Collection. Leahy was a translator at the Vatican II Council and the collection includes Latin speeches from Bishops, Leahy’s personal translation notes, and English news releases. There are also newspapers and periodicals he collected on various social causes, books he had written, and a scrapbook compiled in his honor by his sister.

New finding aid/collection guide for Religious Communities and Missions Survey Collection, which reflects research into the history of American Catholic missionary work. This ambitious undertaking was begun in 1987 through a one page survey mailed to over 400 individual religious orders by Fr. Thomas Stransky, “rector emeritus” of Tantur Ecumenical Institute and former president of the Paulist Fathers.

CUA Libraries + the Writing Center are pleased to offer hours in Mullen Library for Spring, 2013, beginning ,  January 23.

Hours will be:
Wednesday 5-8pm

Outside May Gallery, First Floor
Appointments are not required.

If you have additional questions please contact Kevin Rulo at cua-writingcenter@cua.edu

Start your semester off right with a selection from Mullen Library’s Popular Reading collection!  Some of our newest titles are listed below.  Hold your cursor over the Title to see a short description of the book, or click to view the catalog record. The status of the book is shown beside the call number. All Popular Reading books are shelved in the Main Reading Room on Mullen 2nd Floor:

Don’t see anything you like? There are plenty of other choices available.  Try browsing the Popular Reading shelves in the Main Reading Room, or see a full list of our Popular Reading books in the catalog, by searching under keyword, “CUA Popular Reading.” Happy Reading!

Three hundred early eighteenth-century French and Latin titles from the Albani collection, many of them the only exemplars in the United States, are now cataloged and available to researchers in Rare Books and Special Collections (214 Mullen). A sampling of their content may be found at the RBSC blog:   http://ascendonica.blogspot.com/

New collection guide/finding aid for the papers of Henri Goguen. The collection contains correspondence, clippings, speeches, photographs, and programs, related to Goguen’s career as a city councilor, U.S. marshal, Secretary of State, and Public Safety Commissioner of Massachusetts as well as longtime national president and chairman of the board of the Union Saint-Jean-Baptiste, the largest mutual benefit society for Americans of French descent.  Thanks to library student Dirk Bos for his work on this project.

Spring 2013 Lockers Available to Graduate Students
Mullen Library will be offering a limited number of lockers to all graduate-level students for the Spring 2013 semester. Please note the following schedule and come by the Circulation Desk to check out a locker key

Monday January 14, 2013:
Lockers will be made to all graduate-level students. First come, first serve

Saturday May 11, 2013:
All lockers must be cleared out and keys returned to the Circulation Desk Note: lockers cannot be renewed

Questions? Please contact Mullen Library’s Circulation Desk (202-319-5060)

Kimberly Hoffman, Coordinator of Science Libraries, has been selected as the recipient of the Edward J. Belanger Jr. Staff Award for Excellence in Service for 2012.

Ed Belanger worked for the Libraries for over 40 years before retiring in 2002 as our business manager. His service and dedication to his fellow staff was extraordinary; and he is one of the most positive, up-beat, and good natured people you will ever meet. After his retirement, his children made a donation to the Libraries for the creation of an award in his honor.

Each year the Libraries select a staff member of the year who not only contributes outstanding service to the library but also shares Ed’s good nature. Our recent practice has been for the past honorees to serve as the award committee, selecting from among nominations submitted by library staff.

Excerpted from one of her many nominations:

“…her impact on the libraries and University as a whole is immense. She brings enthusiasm and expertise to her work that has a profound impact on our patrons. Her passion comes through in her dedication to re-creating the science libraries as an information hub that is incredibly useful to students. Kim is a joy to work with and I always look forward to meeting with her about projects and initiatives.”

We are pleased to announce our 150th online finding aid/collection guide, for the Vietnam War Protest Petitions Collection. Thanks to Carter Rawson (and Rodney Obien all those years ago). The collaboration of Fr. John B. Sheerin and Fr. William Nerin was a controversial effort to influence government policy through a petition to recruit mainstream Catholic priests against the Vietnam War. The petition called for priests to abandon any neutral position over the actions of the military and to denounce the war from the pulpit. The collection provides candid testimony to this unprecedented effort through personal correspondence, polling data and news clippings. Please note that CUA Public Affairs has posted a press release.