New Addition to the Children's Literature Blog

I am delighted to announce that we began a new feature on the children's literature blog this morning.

Each Monday, the post on that blog will be about books that might help illustrate themes in the lectionary passages for the upcoming Sunday. The posts will include a link to summaries and reviews of the book, and a brief paragraph about some connections that can be made between that book and the scripture passage. The first post went live today. If you want to see the cumulative list of posts linking books and the Revised Common Lectionary, click on the "Lectionary Links" link in the Categories list on the blog home page. All of the lectionary links are written by 2010 UPSem graduate Noell Rathbun.

We hope this will be a valuable resource for you. We also hope these posts will begin a conversation with you about how you use children's books for preaching and teaching.

Ann

Late Summer Hours now in effect

Beginning Monday 23 Aug, EVENING HOURS will be curtailed at the Morton Library, and we will be CLOSED SUNDAY. While no classes are in session, we want to give our faithful and diligent student workers some time off.

Here are the open hours for 23 Aug thru 12 Sept :

Monday - Friday, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Saturday, 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Be aware also that we are closed for the Labor Day weekend, 4-6 Sept. You can always see the current term hours in detail by clicking on the HOURS link on our Morton Library homepage.

Paula

Catalog down Saturday night

Routine maintenance on our Library catalog server is planned for Saturday night. The Morton Library catalog will be offline for several hours, from approximately 11 pm Saturday until 7 am Sunday.

Our systems librarian tries to schedule this work at times when it will cause as little disruption to our users as possible. Thank you, Leland!

Paula

Late Summer Hours begin next week

Get ready! Beginning Monday 23 Aug, EVENING HOURS will be curtailed at the Morton Library, and we will be CLOSED SUNDAY. While no classes are in session, we want to give our faithful and diligent student workers some time off.

Here are the open hours for 23 Aug thru 12 Sept :

Monday - Friday, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Saturday, 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Be aware also that we are closed for the Labor Day weekend, 4-6 Sept.You can always see the current term hours in detail by clicking on the HOURS link on our Morton Library homepage.

Paula

ILL in limbo

I'm sorry to report that the Interlibrary Loan request form that is supposed to be available through our Morton Library catalog is still nonfunctional. Ironically, the contractor who updated the UPSem website is responsible for its disappearance! He is also the one tasked with restoring it. So, it is on his list of corrections waiting to be done.

If you are a current student, faculty or staff member of UPSem or BTSR, you may request ILL service. Until the form is fixed, we are asking people to send their ILL requests by email (not by phone, please) to Lisa Janes personally, at lisa.janes@upsem.edu.

Please be aware that Lisa is on vacation this week ... she expects to be back on Friday, 20 Aug.

Paula

Extended Hours Monday - Friday

This week, August 2 - 6, the Library will be open extended hours...

Monday - Friday: 8:30am - 10:00pm


We welcome our ECP (Extended Campus Program) students!

Rachel