Google ebooks

Value added by the folks at Google to our BHCTILibrary "Proper" and BHCTILibraryToo Google Book collections include links from any individual ebook the those Carroll Library collections of free full view items to the Google ebook page, where you can download copies to your computer. That will also serve to advertise their service for Google e-books that are fee based; more on the purchase of suchlike as they develop the resources. Meantime, give them at http://books.google.com/ebooks for your own individual purchasing...

How to use the Google Libraries

Those of you using BHCTILibrary and BHCTILibraryToo may find the quantity a bit overwhelming; I'm going to suggest some searching strategies to make your time more fruitful:

• Choose a 'bookshelf' related to a Carroll 'area of concentration', for instance, 'Foundations of Education.'
• Or, type in a search (like Martin Luther) in the search box under my name.

Slow build

Development of my wiki (focused mostly on Library Instruction and expanding web site listings) and the reigns of teaching BHCTI 5000 (Gateway) for BHCTI has not stopped me entirely on my quest to place 10K or so full-view ebooks I'd discovered into Google Book libraries where they can be found easily and sorted by Library of Congress letter ranges, BHCTI areas of concentration, and suchlike 'bookshelves;' but it has sure slowed me down. We hit 1,600 'reviewed' items in the second collection, BHCTILibraryToo ('Too' for short) today; that makes our combined take about 4,100 items in both current collections (the other is located at the first BHCTILibrary, the BHCTILibrary proper, so to speak; therefore, 'Proper' for short). If Google retains its current ceilings of 2.5K titles per collection, I've got about 1.4K left to add to 'Too' before I create a third Googlebook library; I'm going to try speeding that process up with weekly adds there, and updates here. It's been my hope for a while now; and like Bilbo hoping for his eggs and toast in the Hobbit, 'not for the last time.' Stay tuned...

Posting, modern or not...

Winter Colloquy's coming, and you may want to bone up on your invited presenters ahead of time.

• There are quite a few full text articles of Merold Westphal available in our ATLA databases (now on the Ebsco platform); I'd submit his 2003 piece for the Christian Century, 'Blindspots: Christianity and Postmodern Culture' will give you an advanced taste of his substance and style.
• Similarly, B. Keith Putt surely scores a birdie with 'Risking love and the divine "perhaps:"postmodern poetics of a vulnerable God' in 2007's Summer issue of Perspectives in Religious Studies.
• You'll find more articles by both, and the ebook Modernity and its Discontents by Westphal, full text in Questia.

Get reading!

EBSCO Available

Carroll students and stakeholders, Ebsco is now a clickable button in the NexLearn online resources (with pride of place at the head of the list- it is, after all, our home for religious-studies specialized article citations, including full text). You can use it for ATLA Religion, ATLAS, and our newly acquired Old Testament Abstracts and New Testament Abstracts. This is ancillary to our purpose vis a vis Googlebooks, but it's kept my attention, and I figured you'd want to know why I'd been out for a bit...

Keep up on education

More full view Google Ebooks added in the "Foundations of Education" area of concentration (Faith and Heritage cluster, or FHFND for short) at BHCTILibraryToo today. Zwingli's short work on Christian education notable...

Calvin Miller knows Art

You may already know from the Carroll Homepage that Calvin Miller is to be our featured speaker at the Spring Colloquy next month; you might even know the Colloquy topic will be "Christianity and Literature."

• Does "Art" sound like an awfully broad topic to you? Go wide with Oxford Reference, or go deep by exploring the Cambridge Literary Histories in NexLearn's Cambridge Histories Online (CHO).
  
• But what will the author of of a host of writings (like Spirit, Word and Story) say on this topic? Perhaps you can get a inkling reading some of his book reviews full text in OCLC FirstSearch via NexLearn; search for "Miller, Calvin" as a author, and read his take on Buechner's Son of Laughter, Hughes' Satan's Whispers, and Bailey and Blevin's Dramatic Monologues; Or consider his own exposition of "Genesis 1:26" from the journal Review and Expositor. Also, see what other reviewers and writers have to say about works by Dr. Miller.
• Or branch out into the world of Interlibrary Loan by contacting me...

And a little more Education...

Some weeks are crazier than others, but in each one I try to add more Google books relevant to Carroll Disciplines to specially-designated Google Libraries. We have been chugging slowly uphill in the "Foundations of Education" area of concentration (also called MFFND here at BHCTI) in our BHCTILibraryToo account (affectionately referred to as "Too") for some time now, and will for some time to come. Click the link to review our progress!

A bit more yet

We've added a few more titles in Foundations of Education to 'Too today; just some more steps on the road!

Keep on keeping on

A handful of new books to add to 'Too today; no big breakthrough numbers, but just a steady flow...

It's an education

Just a few more "Foundations of Education" titles added today to 'Too; note the Google upgrade that changes our "Tags" (try Foundations of Education, or MFFND, or our broad Library of Congress Call Number setting LC) into "bookshelves." I'd call it a net gain, so far...

Questia adds more journals

Questia (available to Carroll students via NexLearn) has added new articles to its existing periodical titles, and also new periodical subscriptions. If you've been used to using Questia just for ebooks, peak at its new list of periodical titles (journals as well as magazines) here.

Education underweigh

The first new entries under our Foundations of Education area of concentration (subject cluster MFFND here at Carroll) are staring to appear on our collection of Full Text (i.e., full view) Google Book library at 'Too. Have a peak at what's developing...