Wet carpeting in the Library

Our Monday gremlins are at it again!  This time, we've had a water leak at one of the drinking fountains that created a big mess over the Thanksgiving weekend.  Water spread from the 3rd floor down through the building to the basement.  Fortunately, no books or other items in the collection were damaged.

The carpeting must be shampooed and dried with fans in several areas, so we have closed off the North elevator and hallways on all floors.  Please take care walking anywhere on the North end of the building, as there are some places where it's difficult to see the soaked carpet.  The carpet is quite slippery and uneven or rippled in certain spots.

We still have use of the South elevator (near the copy machines on the main level) and stairwells.

Paula

Server maintenance over the Thanksgiving holidays

We will be running the November full backups of our production server on Thursday, November 24, starting at 11 pm.  Our online catalog will be offline until early Friday morning.  All other services will work if you want to be doing research after your Thanksgiving feast!

UPDATE TO HOLIDAY CLOSING HOURS

After we posted the holiday hours on November 16, it was announced that the Seminary will be closing across campus at 4:00 pm on Wednesday, November 23.  Therefore, the Library will also be closing at 4:00 pm.  Our hours on Wednesday, November 23 will be 8:00 am - 4:00 pm.  All other holiday hours remain the same as those listed in the previous post.

Ann

Holiday hours

Please note our reduced holiday hours begin this week...

Fri, Nov. 18:  8:00am - 5:00pm
Sat, Nov. 19:  1:00 - 6:00pm
Sun, Nov. 20:  4:00 - 9:00pm

Mon, Nov. 21:  8:00am - 5:00pm
Tues, Nov. 22:  8:00am - 5:00pm
Wed, Nov. 23:  8:00am - 5:00pm
Thur-Sun, Nov. 24-27:   CLOSED for Thanksgiving


Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving season!

Rachel

iPreach is back !

We're happy to announce that our access to iPreach has been restored.  You ought to be able to get to it now from our Online Databases page,  just like before.

If you have any trouble reaching it, please contact me.

Many thanks to our wonderful Librarian for Academic Computing Support, Leland Deeds, and our Head of Technical Services, Irina Topping.  They sorted out the issues with our Cokesbury account and got it going again.

Paula

Why can't I get access to iPreach?

If you have tried to log in to iPreach recently, you have probably received this error message :

• Your subscription to iPreach has expired. Please contact your library network administrator for more information.

Unfortunately, it's true.  Our subscription has expired, and our IT department has tried to renew it.  But we are still waiting for Cokesbury to respond.  Their tech support for libraries is notoriously poor (are you reading this, Cokesbury?!).  All we can do now is wait for them to get their act together.

We sincerely apologize for this failure.  We are aware that many of our students use this resource and we do hope it won't be long before it's available again.

Paula

The vanishing ILL form page

The good news is that Union Presbyterian Seminary has a nice-looking new website design!  I'm sure it will be a big help in many ways.

The bad news is that they have erased our ILL form, again.  When you click on the "ILL Form" link in our Morton Library catalog, it takes you to the UPSem homepage instead of to the ILL form.

Because we cannot process form data, our ILL form does not reside on the Library's website.  It resides on the UPSem website.  And when major changes are made to that design, our ILL form gets lost in the shuffle.

We hope to get it restored as soon as possible!!  In the meantime, please email Lisa Janes directly with your ILL requests.  Sorry for this inconvenience!

Paula

Post-Reformation Digital Library

This valuable resource from the Meeter Center for Calvin Studies has recently been updated and improved.  It now has its own domain name, a new search interface, and twice as many authors and works included.

The PRDL "is a select database of digital books relating to the development of theology and philosophy during the Reformation and Post-Reformation/Early Modern Era (late 15th-18th c.). Late medieval and patristic works printed and referenced in the early modern era are also included."

The database functions as a unified, searchable collection of books in full-text digital form online, hosted by a variety of providers.  Downloadable PDFs are included, and a link to WorldCat appears with each cataloged work.

Take a look at this helpful resource!  http://www.prdl.org/

Paula