NEW Commentaries

THANK YOU to those who completed our recent Public Services Survey. As a result of your comments and suggestions we have good news!

Morton Library has purchased an additional set of the Sacra Pagina Commentary Series. All 16 volumes, Matthew - Revelation, are currently in the stacks and ready for checkout.

Rachel

Plan ahead! Closed next weekend

Time to plan ahead for your research or study needs ... the Library will be closed next weekend for the Memorial Day holiday. So, remember to borrow or copy what you will need ahead of time.

Closed Saturday, 29 May through Monday, 31 May.

We wish everyone a safe and refreshing break -- especially our new graduates!

Paula

Catalog maintenance again

The Morton Library catalog will be offline for maintenance tonight (Thursday, May 20th), from about midnight till about 2:30 am. Another maintenance period is scheduled for Sat, May 22nd through Sun, May 23rd, approximately 11 pm till 7 am.

We are sorry for this inconvenience. Again, we are thankful to our wonderful systems librarian, Leland Deeds, who is willing to undertake this task at a time that will cause minimal disruption to our users.

Paula

Moving Periodicals

This summer the Circulation staff will be moving the lower level periodicals into alphabetical order by title instead of call number. You may find some periodicals located on carts in that area as we make the transition. There are signs to help direct. Please let us know if we can help. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

Rachel

Catalog maintenance tonight

The Morton Library catalog will be offline for maintenance tonight (Tuesday, May 18th), from about midnight till about 2:30 am.

We are sorry for this inconvenience. Again, we are thankful to our wonderful systems librarian, Leland Deeds, who is willing to undertake this task at a time that will cause minimal disruption to our users.

Paula

Website rewrite

One of the things people mentioned on our recent Morton Library survey is the need for updates to our websites. For some time, we have been confined to an inflexible table-based layout that limits what we can do with our information online. We are now in the process of preparing new pages that will offer greater options and capabilities.

With our institutional name change this summer, we will also need to change the domain names of all of our Library information sources -- a complex and potentially disruptive process. We ask you to bear with us as we comb through our hundreds of pages checking links. We hope to complete the transition this summer.

Paula

Calling all Graduates

Did you know that the resources of the Library are available to you after you graduate? You can continue to visit the Library with your current card, or, if you're moving away, BTSR and Union-PSCE graduates can take advantage of our Extension Program and we'll mail you books or media material that can help you with your ministry. You can see how that works by visiting this page.

We'll need an updated address and possibly a new email address from you, so be sure and contact Lisa Janes at lisa.janes@union-psce.edu when you're settled so she can update your patron status to alumni/ae and continue providing you with these great resources.

Ann

Dead Sea Scrolls electronic library

In the Spring term, Prof. Adams taught BIB 403, "Introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls." His students were challenged to study and analyze the texts, not just from transcriptions, but as written in manuscript on these ancient scrolls. They were able to do this using an amazing Brill product that reproduces digital images of the Qumran scrolls, plus transcriptions, translations, an inventory and search software. The program includes lemmatization and morphological analyses of all the Hebrew/Aramaic words and allows searching of all words and combinations of words, separate morphemes and grammatical groups.

Probably most of our users are not aware that we offer such a tool for study. Until you need it, you are not likely to roam around looking for it! Remember that we offer much more than just our Library catalog and the ATLA Religion Database ... a whole set of specialized resources is here for your use as well.

To find out more about our electronic resources, take a look HERE, HERE and HERE.

Paula

Welcome all alumni/ae and Sprunt visitors !

It's a pleasure for us every year to welcome our returning alums, especially those enjoying their class reunions. Some folks have never even seen the new Library! Please feel free to come in, wander around, ask us questions, use our computers. Also, remember that you are entitled to alumni privileges free of charge at the Library, enabling you to borrow books and other materials, and have remote access to the ATLA Religion Database and the ATLAS full-text e-journals collection.

More details on alumni privileges are found HERE

More details on the ATLAS for Alumni/ae program are found HERE

Also, you have the chance this week to enjoy the beautiful objects in David Partington's unique art collection. This distinguished alum has loaned these lovely works to us to display temporarily -- the exhibit ends on May 7th. Please come and see them!

More information on the art exhibit is available HERE

Welcome all! And please let us know if we can help you in any way.

Paula