Streaming Video @ Haggerty Library

Your Haggerty Library offers three streaming video services for coursework or enjoyment (see below). On campus, just click around from Databases A-Z (all titles are not in Primo, so this works better); remotely, just log in with your MMU email address.

Kanopy (academic and entertainment!)

ProQuest One Psychology (large mental health database that contains videos from Behavioral and Mental Health Online, which we discontinued)

Psychotherapy.net (expressive arts therapy films)

For details on how all these platforms work, see this guide.

To mark the passing of beloved singer, ally, and reading advocate, Dolly Parton, consider watching Dolly Parton: 50 Years at the Opry, streaming on Kanopy. And check out her music wherever you like. In Dolly’s memory we trust!

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Welcome Back!

Welcome/back from Haggerty Library! We hope you had a nice summer. It’s the new school year, and it actually feels a bit like fall for once.

Library staff are always ready to help with your assignments, papers, and projects. Or just to check out cool and helpful stuff to you.

In your library you can, among other things:

• Check out books, DVDs, laptops, headphones, and phone chargers
• Use a Study Room (Learning Commons)
• Print in color (Learning Commons)
• Create your own group study spaces (Learning Commons)
• Study on the Quiet Floor (our 2^nd floor)

What’s new from the summer:

• We added ProQuest One Psychology and ProQuest Fashion Studies Collection to our Databases A-Z (and in Primo)
• Dozens of new books added (see New Arrivals and leisure reading, or Primo)
• New audiobooks added to Libby
• 600,000+ new e-book titles in Ebook Central and JSTOR (find both in Primo)
• New digital magazines in Flipster (Proceso, Wired)
• Lots of new movies on DVD!
  • One Battle After Another, Marty Supreme, Send Help, The Housemaid, and The Boy and the Heron, among others

So stop on by! And we’re always open online!

Work @ Your Library This School Year

Hello, Graduate Students!

Haggerty Library has one opening for a Graduate Library Assistant. To apply, see the posting here. Here are some highlights:

• A quiet working environment
• Ability to work on homework or research
• Learn helpful service and library skills
• Meet great people!

This role alternates two nights per week with another grad student and rotates Sundays. If you are looking for a some extra paid hours and solid experience, check this out! Interviews will take place in the coming weeks, and we hope to train someone new the week before calsses begin.

Undergraduate students, check open campus positions this fall, too, as we will have 3 available!

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Summer @ Haggerty Library

It’s summertime, and the reading is easy. Haggerty Library has plenty of fiction, graphic novels, poetry, and academic subjects galore! 48th on the waiting list at your local library for your book club book? We may have it, or you can request it in Primo! (No guarantees, you understand.) We will resume ordering books in July, but you can always stop by our leisure reading area in New Arrivals for the latest. We added plenty toward the end of the school year.

Feel more like listening to a good book? Try our Libby! It’s part of the Wisconsin Academic Library Collection (WISCAL). If you already enjoy Libby, just search Mount Mary University and add us! Libby also has thousands of e-books. Learn more about our Libby here.

There’s also Kanopy, which contains plenty of documentaries and narrative features, with strengths in social justice and independent films. You can watch them anywhere there’s a wireless connection! You just need to log in with your MMU email.

So, before you think there’s nothing to read or watch, check us out!

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Haiku Contest Winners!

Congratulations to our 2026 Haiku Contest winners! Read the winning entries below. You can read all past winners here.

Thank you to all those who remembered the “nature” theme, and for your thoughtful submissions. Out of the very strong group, it was truly difficult to decide. Two years running!

The winners below can claim their prizes at our main desk in the Learning Commons.

A huge thank you to all who submitted (we hope to see more students next year!), and we’ll see you for National Poetry Month in 2027!

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1st place: Richard Hedderman

first day of spring I

wash my hands in snow and dry

them on a blue shirt

2nd place: Yazmine Gardner-Stewart

Regrets Missed

Sunlight never beams

Deep waves are forever gone

We never seemed to care

3rd place: Alix Shaw

Wisconsin Spring

Small green things begin

Daffodils spring from the earth

Wait, what’s this? More snow??

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statue image of haiku master, Matsuo Bashō, from japantravel.com

Power Problems

Wow, it has been a week! The storms of 4/15 and 4/16 ended up knocking out a transformer (a big box that supplies electricity), and it powered Haggerty Library. While waiting on lengthy repairs, a large, temporary generator has been powering us, but it may not be the best fit. (That’s why the power has gone out several times since.) University staff are trying hard to find a stable solution.

The good news is that Haggerty Library staff are here for you (and in Parkway Place three evenings!), and here are the ways you can reach us.

Click here to see our list of other sizable study spaces on campus.

Thank you for your patience during this unprecedented time at your library. We are here 8:00am-5:00pm M-F and on Sundays from 1:00pm-5:00pm. Sorry for this major inconvenience near the end of the school year.

Watch your MMU email, our home page, and our library hours on that page to stay updated!

National Poetry Month

National Poetry Month is underway!

Click here for our National Poetry Month guide to explore all things poetry!

Poem in Your Pocket Day is on Thursday, April 30th. Find poems to fold and stuff in your pockets just inside the Learning Commons. Or just snap pics of your favorites! (Many of your phones also go in your pockets.)

Also in the Learning Commons you’ll find a few of our poetry titles on display for checkout. Plenty more are on the 2nd floor in the 811s.

Consider taking part in our annual 8th annual Haiku Contest! Find official rules here. Peek at past contest winners here. You can submit haiku through the last day of April. The theme: nature.

Have a great month reading and sharing poems!

The 2026 poster features design and illustration by Alfredo Richner. Lines excerpted from the poem, “The Chance” by Arthur Sze, from The Redshifting Web: New & Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 1998).

Oscar History Made

On Sunday’s Academy Awards, Autumn Durald Arkapaw made history as the first female winner of the Oscar for Cinematography. Last month, she made history as the first woman of color nominated for this category. (Arkapaw’s heritage is Filipino American and African American Creole.)

The first female nominee was Rachel Morrison for Mudbound in 2017. She went on to shoot the first Black Panther with Ryan Coogler (Arkapaw then shot the second Black Panther, Wakanda Forever). Somehow, it took 97 years for a woman to win in this category! An extra congratulations!

Watch Sinners on DVD from Haggerty Library, so you can see for yourself. We also have a DVD player available for checkout.

Women’s History Month 2026

Happy Women’s History Month! Please head to our Women’s History Month Guide, full of great books, e-books, sites, and films at and through your Haggerty Library. Now featuring audiobooks from Libby!

Find books in New Arrivals and our leisure reading area, just inside the Learning Commons. Among others, you’ll find female-centric memoirs and the Red Rose Graphic Novel Collection, featuring graphic novels and memoirs written and illustrated solely by women. We have been collecting for over a decade and are nearing 70 titles!

Kanopy also has a TON of films featuring and created by women! And check out our DVDs for harder-to-find films.

Explore and engage with women’s history all the time – not just during March! Women’s history is American history and it is more important than ever to not lose these stories.

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Have you met Libby?

Haggerty Library is now part of WISCAL, the shared collection for academic libraries! (a.k.a. Libby) This statewide collection is powered by dozens of Wisconsin academic libraries, all of whom add to the shared collection throughout the year. It just keeps growing! It includes e-books and, for the first time for us, audiobooks!

Sign in using your regular Mount Mary email address online or in the app. If you already use the Libby app (recommended), just search for Mount Mary University and add us!

No special device is needed for Libby, but you can typically download to a Kindle, if that’s your thing.

If you need help, just ask, or see our short help guide (short, because it’s pretty easy!).