Gates are now activated

The turnstile and gate at the Library's main entrance are now activated. You now need your key-card to enter the building.

Your card does not need to be swiped like a credit card. Just hold it a few inches away from the red sensor light; it will BEEP and you will also hear a sound as the mechanism unlocks. The light will turn green. Use the turnstile on the right side as you enter. If you are in a wheelchair (pushing a baby stroller, etc), you may use the swinging gate to enter. You may exit through the turnstile without unlocking it, or you may unlock the swinging gate with your card and exit that way.

If you have not yet come to pick up your card, you may do so at the Circulation Desk. At the left of the entrance, near the portrait, there is an intercom device. If you press it, the sound will be heard inside the Circulation Office, so they will know you need attention.

Paula

Personal Copies of Audio Material

The IRC staff is frequently asked to make a copy of an audio title in our collection for a patron's personal collection. Although this isn't a service we provide, there are some ways for you to know whether copying a recording is permissible.

Most speakers who come on campus sign a speaker release which governs the way that patrons can use their material. That information is transferred into the record about that title that you can see in our catalog. Each audio title will have information in a local notes field that says either permission to duplicate, no duplication, or restricted to the Library. If there is no information in the local notes field about duplication, then that is a commerical title and no copying permission is allowed.

You are free to make personal copies for study of any audiorecording that says PERMISSION TO DUPLICATE in the record.

Ann

Misplaced books

Can't find a book on the shelf but the catalog confirms the book is "on the shelf"? First try looking behind the books on the shelf where the book should be. Then look on the bottom shelf behind those books to see if the book has fallen between the shelves. Another place to search is the re-shelving cart located in each section.

If you are unable to find the book after looking in these areas please ask for our help at the Circulation desk. We will be glad to help you find the resources you need.

Rachel

Come and get your key card!

This is the week to come and pick up your new Library card!! We are stationing staff members in the entryway to help you collect your card, to cut down on waiting or crowding at the Circulation Desk. For a schedule of the hours when staff will be present, click HERE.

Next Monday, Nov. 24, the new turnstile barrier at our Library's main entrance will be activated. You will be unable to enter the building without your key card. Please, do yourself a favor and come get your card now, during the hours posted on the timetable.

Paula

Media and Copyright

Patrons frequently want to use our media collection for programs or activities at local churches. Many of our titles can be used for that purpose; others cannot. All of our titles can be used in academic coursework on campus, but for those titles that indicate they are for 'home use only', please do some research before determining whether the use you intend is allowed! You'll find some good information about the problems of using videorecordings in churches HERE.

There are ways to get permission to use copyrighted videorecordings in other settings, including asking for permission or getting a special license that covers a variety of producers of visual media.

If you have questions about your intended use outside of campus, please let me know and I'll try to help you sort through the confusion!

Ann

Collections in Reading Reserve room

In the Reading Reserve room you will find two specific resource collections. The "Chapel Collection" includes lectionaries, hymnals, and various worship aids. The "Graduate Seminar" collection includes theological and language dictionaries, lexicons, and bound editions of Interpretation.

These resources are located in the Reading Reserve room as you enter to your right in the middle of the room.

Rachel

How to get your new key-card

The access gates at the Library's main entrance have now been installed. Before they can be activated, we must distribute the key-cards that will allow you to pass through the gate or turnstile. These RFID cards are unique to each individual ... your card is tied to your Library account and created especially for you. We need to distribute as many of these cards as possible in an orderly fashion before the gates are activated, in order to avoid a huge crush of people at the Circulation Desk needing their cards all at once.

We will be taking advantage of several gatherings at BTSR and Union-PSCE in the next two weeks to set up distribution points for these access cards. Click HERE for a timetable of these events.

For more information about the new turnstile and how it will work, click HERE.

Paula

ELECTRICAL REPAIRS SATURDAY, 8 NOV

Dominion Power will be on campus Saturday morning to replace a leaking transformer at the Library. This work will require shutting down all power to the building, meaning we must close on Saturday. The work is also expected to shut down the proxy server and other systems at the campus IT center; therefore all of the Library's online databases and electronic journals will be unavailable on Saturday morning. They should be available again by Saturday afternoon.

Also, our systems administrator will come in on Friday evening to shut down our servers, so the catalog, circulation functions and your personal library account will be offline after 8:30 pm (the building will remain open till 9:00). We hope to have these electronic services restored by Saturday afternoon.

We are very sorry for this interruption to our services. Before 8:30 on Friday evening, please be sure to borrow from the Library everything you might need this weekend.

Paula

Hard-hat zone?

There will be construction work going on at the Library's main entrance in the near future. A contractor will be installing the new card-key access gates. We don't have a firm date on this yet ... it may happen early in the morning on Wed, 5 Nov. We will certainly make campus-wide announcements at Union-PSCE and BTSR as soon as we know for sure.

We are told that we will be able to come and go through the main entrance while the work is in progress, but that it will be extremely noisy. So there may be disruption for classes meeting in the building or for study time.

We'll pass on more information just as soon as we can!

Paula