New ways to squirrel away

If you're a BHCTI Student, you may have seen this message:

You will notice that some of the resources and links in Carroll Institute's website have been combined or shifted to other menu sections. These modifications are in preparation for our transition to a new administrative interface -- ABHE Solutions. ABHE Solutions is the new platform for student records and class registration. Current students will soon be receiving more information and specific instructions related to class registration for the Summer term.

A catalog to centralize our collection of data and serve as a multiplier of access points has been an ongoing need at Carroll; and through ABHE, we soon ought to have one. Watch this space for updates- and on a faster basis than in the last 6 months, guaranteed....

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!

Welcome

Friends,

You're reached the unofficial page of the librarian at BHCTI- more on me and my work at http://www.bhcti.org/support/ask-the-librarian.html

There is functionality, especially with ebooks, that isn't quite ready for prime time on any official BHCTI page; I want to give a little window into it here for the interested and ambitious. Hence the name, "Sandbox."

My inspirational verse for the page is found at John 8:6b.

My aspirational quote, "if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly" is traced to G.K. Chesterton. Anyone looking for a good read from him will (IMHO) be best served by his Man Who Was Thursday at Project Gutenberg.