Friday, February 27, 2009

and a bit more Questia

A few more print titles we own that Questia has:
  • Jesus Christ : the risen Lord (by Filson)
  • The knowledge of God in Calvin's theology (by Dowey)

A sideline on our purpose, but worth reporting.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

a sidelight on Questia

I'm currently examining records for 4,309 books in our print collection from recently recovered files, and am pleased to note some titles don't have to wait to be unboxed to be seen. NexLearn users with access to Questia can find these titles and more:
  • The eschatology of Paul (by Shires)
  • The failure of theology in modern literature (by Killinger)
  • The Christology of the New Testament (by Cullmann)
  • The mission and achievement of Jesus (by Fuller)
  • The promise of Heschel (by Sherman)
  • The problem of evil (by King)

That's 6 books of 50 examined today; not a bad percentage, to my mind. I'll have to keep everyone updated. Additionally, Questia has full text books we don't own in hardcopy, and comes highly recommended.

Monday, February 16, 2009

Getting on the same page

Many thanks to Amanda Crane at Carroll, who's thoughfully viewed my page and reminded me of an upgrade in BHCTI nomenclature; we sport a total of 16 "areas of concentration" under four umbrella "clusters" in organizing our teaching content areas. For example:
Our Faith & Heritage cluster has the 4 areas of concentration Church History, Ethics, Philosophy, and Theology. Watch this space for further disambiguation!

Monday, February 9, 2009

Might consider it

I've not had time yet to tweak my attempt at making our libraries searchable with Rollyo, but I see Google's added a for profit facility to search sites at http://www.google.com/sitesearch/ which I may consider once I can pony up the entry fee... More on that later.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

1.1K reviews combined

Just realized I'd crossed the 600 "reviewed" mark in BHCTILibrary proper; when added to the 500 in BHCTILibraryToo, that reachs the 1K mark in the combined collections. Admittedly, the "reviews"consist primarilly of OCLC data and LCCN placements; but the latter is more vital to SACS, and when coordinated with labeling (our existing 16 BHCTI subject "clusters," which all extant entries already enjoy- the LC class is being added to the labels as each are found), I think it gives a good indication why entries fit their clusters- that they are relevant for us. I can't promise I'll keep on the retroactive reviewing of the 2.5K in BHCTILibrary proper without adding more Church Music entries to the 500 in BHCTILibraryToo; but I might. As you may remember, "proper" is now stuffed full; once "too" is filled, I'll be placing another Google Library until all previously located (and subsequently identified) finds are accessable....