{"id":9581,"date":"2016-03-25T14:49:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T14:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/?p=9581"},"modified":"2016-03-25T14:49:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T14:49:23","slug":"concannon-speaks-at-slu-pius-librarys-150th-fdlp-anniversary-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/2016\/03\/25\/concannon-speaks-at-slu-pius-librarys-150th-fdlp-anniversary-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Concannon Speaks at SLU Pius Library&#8217;s 150th FDLP Anniversary Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2016\/03\/Concannon-Speaks.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9582\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Concannon Speaks\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-9582\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2016\/03\/Concannon-Speaks-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\tMarie Concannon traveled to St. Louis on Wednesday, March 16 to speak at St. Louis University <a href=\"http:\/\/lib.slu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pius XII Memorial Library<\/a>&rsquo;s 150<sup>th<\/sup> FDLP anniversary event.&nbsp; It was a lovely celebration that brought out supporters both old and new, including John Waide, SLU&rsquo;s documents librarian from the early 1980s, and Katrina Stierholz (now at the St. Louis Federal Reserve Library, but formerly the documents coordinator at SLU.)&nbsp; &nbsp;Rebecca Hyde, SLU&rsquo;s current depository coordinator, delivered a speech including these words from James Madison:\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in\">\n\t<em>&ldquo;Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives&rdquo;<\/em> (1822.)&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMarie&rsquo;s presentation included a passage from the <em>Congressional Record<\/em> dated almost 150 years ago to the day.&nbsp; She then had the honor of presenting GPO&rsquo;s sesquicentennial plaque to Dave Cassens, Dean of SLU Libraries.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tA reception followed.&nbsp; SLU Library&rsquo;s energetic social media mascot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/piuslibrary\/lil-pius\/\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;Lil&rsquo; Pius&rdquo;<\/a> was excited about the party and sent out a tweet to students.&nbsp; There were also buttons and stickers depicting Lil&rsquo; Pius and <a href=\"http:\/\/bensguide.gpo.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">GPO&rsquo;s Ben<\/a> holding hands, &ldquo;best friends forever.&rdquo; Guests viewed historical document displays and a slide show that Rebecca and others at SLU put together for the event.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe event was a wonderful way to celebrate 150 years of service.&nbsp; St. Louis University&rsquo;s Library has our congratulations for doing a stellar job making government information available at St. Louis University and to the people of St. Louis.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marie Concannon traveled to St. Louis on Wednesday, March 16 to speak at St. Louis University Pius XII Memorial Library&rsquo;s 150th FDLP anniversary event.&nbsp; It was a lovely celebration that brought out supporters both old and new, including John Waide,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/2016\/03\/25\/concannon-speaks-at-slu-pius-librarys-150th-fdlp-anniversary-celebration\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Concannon Speaks at SLU Pius Library&#8217;s 150th FDLP Anniversary Celebration<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-documents"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 00:33:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9583,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581\/revisions\/9583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}