Easter Weekend Hours

Please note our limited hours for Easter weekend...

Good Friday, April 2: 8:00am - 5:00pm

Holy Saturday, April 3: CLOSED

Easter Sunday, April 4: CLOSED

Wishing you a blessed and peaceful Easter weekend.

Rachel

Morton Library is Looking for Children's Artwork!

You may have noticed the clean-up going on right inside the bridge on 2nd floor North where some of the children's books are housed. The top shelves have been taken down, giving us some wall space where we're hoping to add some color and creativity!

Children of the Union-PSCE and BTSR community are invited to submit artwork that features their favorite book. Artwork should be 8 1/2 in size and colorful! We are excited to feature our children's creativity in a rotating display. Artwork can be submitted at the circulation desk during normal library hours until May 31, 2010. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Jill Isola, jill.isola@union-psce.edu

Ann

It's Morton Library survey time !

The William Smith Morton Library invites you to express your opinion of our collections and services. We are sending our survey to all current students, faculty and staff of Union-PSCE and BTSR by email, as an attached Excel file. Please return the survey to Paula Skreslet by April 6th.

Every BTSR or Union-PSCE individual who completes the attached survey and returns it will receive a numbered coupon worth TEN FREE PHOTOCOPIES. Just bring your coupon to the Circulation Desk and we will add $1.00 to your copy card.

In addition, every respondent will be entered in our DRAWING to win one of these nice prizes:

• Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (10 volumes), like new
• The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, good condition (5 volumes)
• J.J. Owens' Analytical Key to the Old Testament, like new (4 volumes)
• Moulton-Geden's Concordance to the Greek Testament, 5th edition
• Hendrickson's Interlinear Bible, OT and NT, 1985 one-volume edition

The survey should take only a few minutes to complete. Please save it to your computer, edit it with your responses, save it again, and then send a reply email to me with your completed survey as an attachment. If you have trouble doing this, contact me and I will send you the survey form printed on paper.

We are always trying to improve our services to you, and your guidance will help us to do that. PLEASE RESPOND -- your help will be very much appreciated!!

Paula

Art exhibit official opening and reception

The special exhibit of the show "Epiphanies of Beauty," featuring objects from the art collection of David Partington, will be celebrated tonight at a special viewing and reception, 6:30-8:30 pm. David and Sarah Partington will be present at the reception. Paintings and prints will be hanging in the Atrium and downstairs below the Atrium. One painting and a selection of books & journals containing information about the featured artists will be seen in the glass display cases near the Library's main entrance.

This unique exhibit includes He Qi’s “Supper at Emmaus,” Edward Knippers’ “Baptism of Christ” and Makoto Fujimura’s “Shalom.” David Partington earned a Master of Divinity degree from Union Seminary in 1978. He and his wife are generously sharing this impressive collection for the art exhibit, funded with the support of The Carl Howie Center for Science, Art and Theology.

The display will be open to the public on Mondays-Saturdays, 1-4 pm, until May 7 (closed April 2-3).

Paula

New Titles on the Free Table....

We're in the middle of our bi-annual curriculum inventory and always have some titles that we remove and that will not go into the stacks. Our free table, located at the south end of the IRC, will be getting filled up over the next several weeks. Come by and see if there are things you might be able to use in your ministries!

Ann

What's up with the current periodicals?

You might have noticed that the area of the Reference Room where we house the current issues of journals seems to be shrinking. Some of this shrinkage is due to shelving the journals closer together ... they were very spread out on the shelves before. But it's also true that there are fewer print periodicals coming into the Library.

There are three reasons for this :
1) Some academic journals formerly maintained by universities, seminaries, learned societies and other voluntary associations have ceased publication, due to increased costs.
2) Many journals are moving to an electronic-only format, again to save money on printing, postage, etc.
3) Some journals have gone up in price so dramatically that we have decided to terminate our subscription.

An example of the third factor is the Review of Faith and International Affairs, which used to cost us $49.85 for our subscription. It has been purchased by a commercial publisher (Routledge/Taylor & Francis) and they raised the price to $264 -- a fivefold increase! This kind of thing makes it hard for us to continue certain titles.

We are always interested in hearing from you about the journals you value most. Please contact me with your comments or questions.

Paula

Loud Noise Today

Technicians are here today to repair our access gate. They will be drilling in the slate floor and installing additional parts for the gate to work more effectively.

We apologize for the loud noise and inconvenience. Thank you for your patience.

Rachel

Art Exhibit

The installation of the art exhibit in the Library atrium will continue today and tomorrow. The "Epiphanies of Beauty" exhibit will begin on Monday, March 15 and continue to Friday, May 7.

The exhibit is open to the public Monday - Saturday, 1-4pm and closed Easter weekend, April 2-3. Brochures will be available detailing the artists and their artwork.

The Library will host a reception Monday, March 22, 6:30 - 8:30pm to officially welcome the opening of the art exhibit. Please join us!

Rachel

Art exhibit installation begins Tuesday, March 8th

The special exhibit of the show "Epiphanies of Beauty," featuring the art collection of David Partington, will be installed beginning Tuesday. A professional gallery installer will hang the pieces in the Atrium. Later this month, Rev. Partington will bring additional small objects that will be placed in the glass display cases at the Library's main entrance.

This unique exhibit includes He Qi’s “Supper at Emmaus,” Edward Knippers’ “Baptism of Christ” and Makoto Fujimura’s “Shalom.” David Partington earned a divinity degree from Union Seminary in 1978. He and his wife are generously sharing this impressive collection for the art exhibit, funded with the support of The Carl Howie Center for Science, Art and Theology.

We ask you to excuse any disturbance caused by the installation work.

Paula

Catalog maintenance this weekend

We will be re-indexing the Morton Library catalog in the overnight hours, tonight at midnight and Saturday at midnight. The catalog will be unavailable for several hours during the "graveyard shift." The entire process should be finished by Sunday morning.

All of us owe our thanks to our systems librarian, Leland Deeds, who is willing to monitor this process late at night on the weekend in order to minimize inconvenience for our users. Thank you, Leland!!

Paula