Tiny FDR room is big addition to Holy Spirit Library

The FDR room in the Holy Spirit Library was dedicated on Thurs., April 19. A prayer service blessed the new room followed by refreshments for those in attendance. The library also added two new books to the collection in the names of Dr. Jolyon Girard, history faculty member, and Corey Salazar, student. The room was donated to the school by an anonymous alum.

by Amy Gassen news editor

Finals week is right around the corner and students are spring cleaning the dust gathered on their schoolbooks to study for the big tests and to write the important pa- structed with a gift from an anonymous donor, was dedicated on Thursday, April 19. Father Steve Albero, campus chaplain, along with campus minister Mary Laver led a prayer service to bless the new room. The room is located on the second floor of the library on modest table, and a vintage chair furnish the quaint room. pers. The Holy Spirit Library, nestled between Woodcrest and the Rooymans Center, is the current place to be on campus.

"It's a number of works that were written at the time of FDR," said Rosemarie DeMaio, part-time reference librarian. "They are primary sources for that period of time-topics like World War I and The New Deal."

"Dr. Jolyon Girard, history faculty member, was instrumental in setting up the room," DeMaio said. Due to the fact that Girard was instrumental in the process, the librarians purchased a new book for the general library in his name.

"We like to get books in conjunction with classrooms," said Linda Roccas, library assistant. A two-part book, "The Major International Treaties of the Twentieth Centuy," was purchased in Girard's name and will be helpful for his classes.

Momentos of FDR decorate the new room dedicated in his name.

Every year, the library purchases new books and showcases them at an open house. Along wi~e open house this year, a new a dition to the library as a whol was unveiled. The FDR room, con- the left side of the stairwell. The prayer service dedicating the room consisted of a reading from Scripture and the saying of the' Our Father. Petitions were then said before Father Albero blessed the room with holy water.

The room was formerly used for storage and was decorated by the library staff to reflect the decor of the times. Two bookshelves, a

They also purchased the book entitled "A Grand Delusion: America's decent into Vietnam." This book was placed in the library under student Corey Salazar's name "in recognition of his outstanding scholarship and library usage.

"He used the library really well and we like to encourage that," Roccas said.

The room can be used for research, among other things. "If a group wanted to work in there, that would be fine, too," DeMaio said.