E-journals A-Z list maintenance

Just want you to know that the e-journals A-Z list to which we subscribe will be offline for most of the coming weekend.  They tell us it will be unavailable from 8 pm Friday till 1 pm Sunday.

However, you should still be able to access all of our full-text e-journals through the various indexing databases, such as ATLA-RDB / ATLAS and Academic Search Complete.  Our e-journals are NOT offline -- just the EBSCO utility that provides access to these titles through an alphabetical search interface.

Still confused?  You can email me any time (I often check my campus email at home).

Paula

Extended hours this weekend

This weekend the Library will be open for extended hours as students prepare for exams next week...

 Friday, April 29:   8:00am - 10:00pm

Saturday, April 30:  1:00pm - 8:00pm

Sunday, May 1:   4:00pm - 9:00pm


Also, don't forget the Library is open each Sunday through May 22.


Rachel

New ! Featured articles by our faculty, available online

You sometimes hear about new books published by our faculty members -- but in fact, they are bringing out articles in scholarly journals all the time.  We have created a new display to call attention to these articles and encourage you to access them through our e-journals.

On the table near the for-sale books (alongside the Circ Desk, where the paper cutter and staplers are), you'll find this week's featured periodical article, plus some information about how you can easily find it in digital form through our E-Journals A-Z List.  There are even some little cards you can take with you as a reminder.

Irina Topping, our cataloging supervisor, created this display.  She intends to promote a different article every week, and she is selecting our faculty authors in alphabetical order.  So come and see this week's article by Sam Adams in Journal for Preachers !  And learn to use the easy and convenient A-Z list !

Paula

Free Games !

We're weeding in the IRC over the next few weeks and the first items to go are games.  Granted, these are old, but you may find some use for them!  We're putting them out on the free table at the south end of the IRC (in front of the ILL office) and they are yours for the taking.

It's too hard to remove the security strips from these old kits, so if you take one, you may want to stop by the Circulation Desk and have the staff deactivate that.  If you forget and the alarm sounds when you try to leave, just show the circulation staff the "removed from collection" stamp that will be on the front of each game.

Printing issues in the Reference Room

The good news is that our new printer/copier has arrived!  The bad news is that they haven't installed it yet.  Meanwhile, the old one has resentfully given up printing documents through the network.  I have not been able to get it to print properly today, even from the older machines that used to be able to do this.

Please allow us a few more days to install the new machine and then for IT to work out the bugs of getting it to accept print commands from all six Ref Room computers.

Till then, please plan on printing downstairs in the Computer Lab, or in the Watts Hall lab.  Thanks!!

Paula

Stacks shift in the Reference Room

Okay people, we really were not intending to create panic when we started moving things in the Ref Room.  We are trying to make enough space to add two new commentary series that students have requested.

All of the books you need are still there -- they have just been squeezed closer together.  They are basically two sections to the left of where they were before, and then probably a little higher or lower on the shelves.

Please take note of the signs on the shelves that are there to help you ... such as the big one that says HEBREW LANGUAGE REFS HERE,  or perhaps BIBLE DICTIONARIES START HERE.  And if you don't see something you need, please ask.

Paula

PSCE historical display : "Preparing to Serve ... in a Christian Vocation"

We have now installed a display of special objects and mementoes from the worship, learning and common life of the General Assembly's Training School and the Presbyterian School of Christian Education.

Many of us remember events from the life of this remarkable institution very fondly. It's a pleasure to see hymnals from the Chapel, tableware from the dining hall, and other objects that bring back memories.

We have also selected some charming and fascinating photographs from the Archives and reproduced them for this exhibit. These images are meant to represent the many and varied gifts of ATS-PSCE students, and the variety of ministries into which they were called.

The title of the exhibit is taken from a publicity brochure about the school, printed in 1947. You'll see the cover of that brochure reproduced in the exhibit. Please join us in celebrating the outstanding professors and alums of this very special institution, and their many contributions to the life of the Church.

Paula

Commentary set available

We have moved one set of the Hermeneia Commentaries from the stacks to the Reference room. This set is temporarily located on a cart in the Reference room, on the right as you enter the room.

Also, we have ordered an additional Smith & Helwys Commentary set. Once this set arrives we will incorporate both sets in the Reference room shelves.


Rachel

Printer update

Well, much to my surprise, the networked printer/copier is working again. I take back some of the mean things I said about it.

Therefore, you should be able to print as usual from four of the six computers in the Ref Room.

When the printer/copier is replaced at the end of April, we should be able to connect all six machines to it through the network, so that you will be able to print from any computer in the Ref Room. That's the plan, anyway.

Paula

No printing

Oh great, now we can't print from any of the computers in the Reference Room!! Grrrr. The stupid worthless printer/copier networked to our machines is out of order, again.

The good news is that the printer/copier is scheduled to be replaced at the end of this month. So maybe we'll get a better machine!

Please bear with us until this problem is dealt with. I believe it's still possible to print documents in the Computer Lab downstairs.

Paula

Book Talk tonight

The Book Talk with Bill Sweetser takes place tonight, April 5, at 7:00pm in the Reserve Reading Room. In honor of the Bicentennial, Visiting Professor of Church History, Charlotte Campus, Bill Sweetser, is writing A Copious Fountain: Union Presbyterian Seminary, 1812 - 2012.

The Reserve Reading Room has been reconfigured for tonight, but you can still access Reserve books. Please let the Circ staff if you need help finding a Reserve book.

Rachel

Printing from the new computers

Two new computers have been added in the Reference Room, to your right as you come in through the main entrance.

For the time being, these two new computers will not have printing capability. We have decided not to add them to the networked printer/copier in the Microforms Room, because that machine is scheduled to be replaced at the end of April.

So please bear with us for a few weeks until a new printer/copier can be installed. In the meantime, all of the other computers in the Reference Room should still be printing as usual.

Paula

Electronic journals A-Z list

On Friday, April 1st (and this is no joke), the Electronic Journals A-Z List will be offline for maintenance. All of the journals will still be accessible through the databases which index them ... it's just the list utility that will be unavailable.

Here is the link : http://atoz.ebsco.com/Titles.asp?id=12032&sid=226431087&lang=en

We are told that they intend to have this resource down for one day only.

Paula