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.

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...

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.

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.