New Video Streaming Collection Available

As part of our support of faculty teaching in the pastoral care areas this year, we have licensed a collection of more than 300 hours of digital media related to counseling.  The Counseling and Therapy in Video Collection (CTIV) will allow any student, staff or faculty member at UPSEM and BTSR to watch streaming videos from a computer (no mobile phone access), create clips to use in presentations, and share those links with others.

When you are on the UPSem campus, access to this collection will be automatic.  If you access this collection from home, you will get the EZProxy login page.  If you are a UPSEM user, your login should be your network login.  If you are a BTSR student or faculty member, you will have provided us with a login name and password that you want to use when you registered as a Library user.  If you intend to create and use your own clips, you will need to create a personal account on the site.

Video streaming can be used for hybrid and face to face courses.  While this collection is rather narrowly focused, we hope to be bringing other collections to you in the future.  Look for the CTIV icon on the News Bar of the Library home page, and on the Instructional Resource Center page.  Let us know what you think of this one!

Ann

Post-hurricane issues

Our electronic systems in the Library are mostly operating now, though we have lost access to our website a couple of times.  You may still run into some problems.  Please ask one of us here at the Library, or call us at 804-278-4310 and we'll try to help.

Paula

Catalog maintenance Friday night

Just want you to know that we’re going to run a full backup of the Library’s catalog tonight, 11 pm – 7 am tomorrow. We need to complete this task before the storm hits, in case there are power failures that cause data loss.

Because the Library will be closed anyway, we don’t think this will impact students working on ordination exams. The ATLA database and all other indexes, full-text e-journals and networked resources accessed remotely will all be unaffected – it will interrupt the Library catalog ONLY.

Of course, if there are power failures and the proxy server goes down, then students will lose access to the databases. But that won’t be caused by this maintenance work.

Paula

Fire alarm testing

Keith Fauber and the alarm technicians will be testing the Library’s fire alarm this morning. The loud noise should begin around 8:30.

Rachel

Emergency closing

A small earthquake was recorded in the Richmond area, and we have been told to close the Library in case of further shocks.

We expect to be open tomorrow as usual.

Paula

New journals added to ATLA Serials

The full-text portion of the ATLA Religion Database is constantly expanding, as they digitize more content and add titles.  ATLAS (ATLA Serials) has just added six new full-text periodicals :

• Bulletin for the Study of Religion, successor to Council of Societies for the Study of Religion Bulletin, by Equinox Publishing Ltd.

• Concordia Theological Quarterly, by Concordia Theological Seminary

• Conrad Grebel Review, by Conrad Grebel College

• International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, by Floraglades Foundation, Inc.

• Journal of Moravian History, by Moravian Archives and the Moravian Historical Society

• Missio Apostolica, by Lutheran Society for Missiology

You will be able to search their records and read their content online.  For more information on using the ATLA-RDB and ATLAS, please see our online tutorial.

Paula

Orientation time !

A warm welcome to the new students who are coming this week to the Library for Orientation !  A group of DMin students from BTSR will be starting this week, and new international students are arriving to begin their studies at Union.

We want you to feel welcome and comfortable in our lovely Library.  During our Orientation briefing and tour, we can give you only a quick overview of the resources and where things are.  But please do ask one of us in Reference or at the Circulation Desk for further help.

Paula