We continue to see and enjoy the results of your comments and suggestions from this year's Public Services Survey. We recently added 3 new commentary sets to our collection - in addition to the new sets added in May. These are in the stacks and ready for check out.
Thank you for your suggestions!
Rachel
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Summertime Reading
Today we welcome a guest blogger, Rachel Mastin, UPSem MACE/MDiv student...
It's summertime and for most people this means less trips to the theological library. A public library sure, they've got kids books and movies and light summer fun reading and air conditioning. But wait! The Morton Library has all of these things too! On the second floor you can find a wide variety of children's books, my favorite recent discovery is "Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!", a compilation between some old Dr. Seuss notes and drawings, Jack Prelutsky and Lane Smith. You can also find movies up on the second floor just inside the doors to the IRC - come browse and pick something up.
And what about fun, relaxing, lighter than Von Rad reading this summer? On the first floor of the Library, sandwiched between books on learning biblical Greek and Hebrew and our collection of Greek and Hebrew bibles, you can find books by C.S. Lewis, Wendell Berry, Garrison Keillor, A.A. Milne, Wally Lamb, Barbara Kingsolver, Anne Lamott, Gail Godwin, Philip Pullman, James Baldwin, Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll and more! These books are fun to read and provide potential sermon illustrations or small group discussion pieces as well. Stop by the Circulation desk to say Hi and let us know if we can help you find some summer reading!
Rachel Mastin
It's summertime and for most people this means less trips to the theological library. A public library sure, they've got kids books and movies and light summer fun reading and air conditioning. But wait! The Morton Library has all of these things too! On the second floor you can find a wide variety of children's books, my favorite recent discovery is "Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!", a compilation between some old Dr. Seuss notes and drawings, Jack Prelutsky and Lane Smith. You can also find movies up on the second floor just inside the doors to the IRC - come browse and pick something up.
And what about fun, relaxing, lighter than Von Rad reading this summer? On the first floor of the Library, sandwiched between books on learning biblical Greek and Hebrew and our collection of Greek and Hebrew bibles, you can find books by C.S. Lewis, Wendell Berry, Garrison Keillor, A.A. Milne, Wally Lamb, Barbara Kingsolver, Anne Lamott, Gail Godwin, Philip Pullman, James Baldwin, Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll and more! These books are fun to read and provide potential sermon illustrations or small group discussion pieces as well. Stop by the Circulation desk to say Hi and let us know if we can help you find some summer reading!
Rachel Mastin
Friday, July 16, 2010
ILL Form Has Disappeared
We've been notified that the ILL form that can be accessed through our catalog and library web pages has disappeared. While we wait to get help recovering it, please make your ILL requests through EMAIL to Lisa Janes (lisa.janes@upsem.edu) . Lisa finds it most helpful to have your requests in writing so that nothing gets lost in telephone translation, so while the form is out, email will work. We hope the form will be available again soon.
Ann
Ann
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Lovely new exhibit in the Library
Every summer when the new students arrive for their language classes, we try to have an exhibit ready for them in the Library. We try to design something that may inspire them as they begin their course of theological study.
This year, we’ve selected seven beautiful volumes from our rare books collection, calling it “Historic Bibles of the Renaissance and Baroque.” We’ve chosen three from the 1500s (when moveable type was cutting-edge technology), two from the 1600s and two from the 1700s. Each of them is unique in some important way … beside each book is a little two-sentence interpretation of why they are so special. They are placed in the large glass display cases near the entrance, and also in the flat display case near the Circ Desk.
Please come by to have a look at them. If you are a new student, I’d like you to know that this exhibit is in your honor, so to speak … that you stand in the presence of giants of biblical scholarship through the ages, and are now embarking on that path.
Paula
This year, we’ve selected seven beautiful volumes from our rare books collection, calling it “Historic Bibles of the Renaissance and Baroque.” We’ve chosen three from the 1500s (when moveable type was cutting-edge technology), two from the 1600s and two from the 1700s. Each of them is unique in some important way … beside each book is a little two-sentence interpretation of why they are so special. They are placed in the large glass display cases near the entrance, and also in the flat display case near the Circ Desk.
Please come by to have a look at them. If you are a new student, I’d like you to know that this exhibit is in your honor, so to speak … that you stand in the presence of giants of biblical scholarship through the ages, and are now embarking on that path.
Paula
Thursday, July 8, 2010
CATALOG IS BACK
As of 9:00 pm, our catalog is again available. We are uncertain yet whether we have experienced any data loss, but the catalog does seem to be able to search for and retrieve records.
We all want to express the greatest appreciation for our valiant systems librarian, Leland Deeds. He has devoted countless hours of effort to restoring our information systems, and we are very grateful.
If there are other developments, we will report them here.
Paula
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
CATALOG DOWN
Friends, our Morton Library catalog server got knocked on the head last night by a power failure. It seems to have a fault that is preventing it from rebooting correctly.
Until this fault is corrected, you will not be able to use our Library catalog. We are offering an outdated version of our data on the "test" server inside the Library only, until the Morton server recovers. We apologize for this very aggravating situation!
Please check here for further information as it becomes available.
Paula
9 am Thursday : A full diagnostic of the hardware showed no errors, so we apparently have a software issue. Our systems librarian is in close contact with the software vendor. We hope they will clarify the situation soon!
Friday, July 2, 2010
NEW platform for the ATLA Religion Database
Please note that we have replaced our former version of the ATLA Religion Database and ATLA Serials (ATLAS). We have been preparing for a transition of this resource to the EBSCO platform, but we are aware that it will seem unsettling to those who are accustomed to the old interface.
The good news is that the EBSCO platform is really the current "gold standard" for indexing databases, and we have wanted to offer this interface for a long time. Well, ready or not, here it is! To access this resource, go to our Online Databases page.
There is now a detailed new tutorial to help people learn the special features of this resource platform. To reach the ATLA-RDB/ATLAS tutorial, click HERE.
We do apologize for any problems caused by this transition ... we hope the tutorials and planned training workshops for students will help make it easier. If you have additional questions, please come see me!
Paula
The good news is that the EBSCO platform is really the current "gold standard" for indexing databases, and we have wanted to offer this interface for a long time. Well, ready or not, here it is! To access this resource, go to our Online Databases page.
There is now a detailed new tutorial to help people learn the special features of this resource platform. To reach the ATLA-RDB/ATLAS tutorial, click HERE.
We do apologize for any problems caused by this transition ... we hope the tutorials and planned training workshops for students will help make it easier. If you have additional questions, please come see me!
Paula
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