Fun Facts

In Summer 2007, I'd found a total of 10,019 full text books (mostly Google Books, but some from CCEL and Project Gutenberg) I considered relevant to our BHCTI collection. In moving those titles slowly out into BHCTILibrary and its sister annex, BHCTILibraryToo, I've crunched some interesting numbers:

• 89 links (to date) no longer lead to a full view Google Book (pehaps human error?)
• a total in both libraries (to date) yields 2,971 books already made available (1,609 from the original lists, and 1,362 newly found this Fall).
• While all 2,971 books have been assigned (at least preliminarilly) with a BHCTI "cluster" subject, only a total of 757 (297 in BHCTI Library proper, 460 in Too) have LCCNs assignments.

Just goes to show, there's work yet to be done!

Back in the saddle

Have been roping a few LCCNs and OCLC numbers at BHCTILibrary proper following a long spell of SACS documentation revision. More tomorrow!

Worship WMWOR cluster gathered in

The last few took longest, but all the initially selected entries from Google Books for Worship (BHCTI subject cluster WMWOR) are gathered in BHCTIToo and number 472 total items. Duplicates and items that were not (or perhaps are no longer?) on this examination designated "Full View" were dropped- approximately 30 titles were eliminated. OCLC numbers, subject headings, and Library of Congress Call Numbers (the last item particularly requested in SACS documentation for sorting and reporting purposes) have been roughed in for each entry. The next cluster to be worked in into BHCTIToo is Church Music- keep watching this space. My plan is to complete adding our previously selected items for accounting to SACS before beginning to find new materials.

Sidelight on the Colloquy

For those who have attended the Colloquy in Arlington this week, a selection of Dr. Bruce W. Winter's previous articles can be read in full text in by logging into NexLearn and searching for him by name in FirstSearch; and selected texts in his notes (including Kloppenborg's Voluntary Associations in the Graeco-Roman World) are available in full text in Questia. Feel free to explore!