The game's afoot with the BHCTI Catalog

Closing in at last on the proposed BHCTI Library Catalog through American Biblical Higher Education's ABHE Solutions, though I've yet to have a clickable link for the stinker; The first iteration will feature individual links to all the items in both of our affliated GoogleBook libraries, BHCTILibrary 'Proper,' and BHCTILibraryToo, as well as Logos Bible Software's stand-alone website of full text ebooks at Books.Logos.com, and in addition all the content of ebook vendor Questia (and not only the 5,000 or so free full text items).

Those who recall our long relationship at BHCTI with Questia will remember that though the company sells individual accounts, Carroll has set these up for our students through student fees. The catalog will still require an individual login for any Questia content outside their 5,000 freebies; but Carroll students will know their accounts, or can ask...

A part of our 20,000 or so print collection (approximately 4,000 MARC records) will also be included. I hope in time to coordinate those catalog records with my available print items.

All in all, having author, title, and subject access to 75% or so of our items across vendors and platforms is a serious improvement, and (with apologies to Samurai Jack) 'an historic victory most worthy of our logs.' Or blogs. We should have the bugbots dispensed with before the month is out, so keep watching this space (and my wiki)...

Read Dr. Hargraves for the Spring Colloquy

If you're coming to our Summer Colloquy, you'll know we're hosting Christian psychotherapist Dr. Terry D. Hargrave of Fuller Seminary. Read up a bit on him in NexLearn; Questia makes his book (with Franz Pfitzer) The New Contextual Therapy available full text; there are articles by Dr. Hargraves there, and more in Wilson Select Full Text (currently available in OCLC FirstSearch). And current carroll Students can ask me about interlibrary loan (ILL). You can always visit my wiki if you need help navigating the library block in NexLearn. Hope to see you there...

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.

Michael Lindsay articles for next week's Winter Colloquy

You've seen some of these if you've been dilligent checking OCLC FirstSearch in NexLearn, but these links come to us courtesy of DBU's own Doctoral Research Librarian, Dr. John Jaeger. Have a look at these entries by and about our featured speaker:
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~mlindsay/biography.html http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/november/33.35.html http://www.cceia.org/resources/transcripts/0001.html http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2009/mayjun/1.18.html

Sidelight on Bhctilibrary Wiki

This wiki is a sandbox-worthy version of how to search our NexLearn resources, and to (I hope) disambiguate our bibliographic instruction. Go there to learn how to search OCLC FirstSearch, Seminary Library, Questia, Oxford Reference Online, Grove Music Online, our '07 list of Online Resources; plus directives back to BHCTILibrary "Proper" and BHCTILibraryToo, as well as this page. Once the kinks are all worked out, some version of it will be added to NexLearn, but feel free to visit and edit meanwhile...

Sidelight on Seminary Library

Here's a pair of Apologetics titles instructors recommend, that you can find in full text in Seminary Library via NexLearn:

• Theism and Humanism by Arthur James Balfour
• Fundamental Ideas of Christianity by John Caird

Think of Seminary Library for pre-1923 imprints in theological disciplines- the quality of their reproductions, and the more targeted nature of their collection, can make their material worthwhile in comparision to other material available for free on the 'net.

Sidelight on Pastoral Care

Just a plug for two journals on the subject (aka Practical Theology) in Full text in NexLearn (use OCLC FirstSearch for the ATLA and Wilson Full Text to access); Counseling and Values, and Journal of Pastoral Care. I ought to do this more often!

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!