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PTS announces Microsoft initiative

Princeton Theological Seminary and Microsoft Corporation have entered into an agreement to digitize a large number of materials in the public domain from the collection of the Seminary library. This initiative will enable the library to contribute religion content to Microsoft’s Live Search Books service and thus increase worldwide access to its historic religion collection.

Reigner Easter Celebration postponed!

The Easter Celebration will not take place this Saturday, March 1st. We regret the inconvenience. Information about the new date and time will appear on the library homepage.

Celebrate Easter joy on March 1st, 2008.

Please join the Reigner Reading Room in a spring festival of arts & crafts and an Easter egg hunt for the children of the Princeton Seminary Community.

Thirty Minutes Skill Sessions Spring 2008

Wondering how to access the marvels of the seminary library? Come to one or all of these sessions to learn how to utilize these databases or simply come to refresh your researching skills. Each session will be offered on a Tuesday evening and Wednesday afternoon. We will concentrate on a different database each week. You will learn: How to effectively conduct searches in a particular database How to increase the number of relevant hits How to view, print, and email citation information and/or full-text articles How to find articles that are not available online Sessions will last for approximately 30 minutes with ample time for questions and individualized attention after. All sessions will be held in either the Armstrong Assembly Room located in Luce Library or the Cooper Conference Room located in the Erdman Conference Center. Have questions or want to reserve your spot? Contact Andy Newgren at john.newgren@ptsem.edu . OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) Feb 5, 7:30pm, Cooper; Feb 6, 1:00pm, Cooper ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials; Academic Search Premier; Old Testament Abstracts & New Testament Abstracts Feb 12, 7:30pm, Armstrong; Feb 13, 1:00pm, Armstrong ATLA: The premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion. Academic Search Premier: Multi-disciplinary database providing abstracts and indexing with select full text for many core scholarly journals as well as popular press periodicals. Old Testament Abstracts: Features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works related to O.T. studies and biblical theology. New Testament Abstracts: The database has become an indispensable research and bibliographic aid for scholars, librarians, clergy and students of the New Testament and its historical milieu. JSTOR – Journal Storage Feb 19, 7:30pm, Armstrong; Feb 20, 1:00pm, Cooper Full text archive of core journals in select disciplines. This is a sample item in a feed, created by Jitbit RSS Feed Creator. NOTE: this item description should be edited.

Easier access to E-Journals

We are happy to announce that members of the Seminary community and visitors to the library have access to our new and improved e-journal search page. Visit now to see for yourself.

Join us for Belonging 2.0!

Reigner Reading Room is sponsoring event on how technology influences teenagers' perceptions...

30 Minute Library Skill Sessions

Wondering how to access the marvels of the seminary library? Come to one or all of these sessions to learn how to utilize these databases or simply come to refresh your researching skills. We will concentrate on a different database each week. You will learn: ? How to effectively conduct searches in a particular database ? How to increase the number of relevant hits ? How to view, print, and email citation information and/or full-text articles ? How to find articles that are not available online Sessions will last for approximately 30 minutes with ample time for questions and individualized attention after. All sessions will begin at 7:30pm in the Cooper Conference Room located in Erdman Hall. Have questions or want to reserve your spot? Contact Andy Newgren at john.newgren@ptsem.edu.

Newly-revised Jonathan Edwards Bibliography available!

Lesser’s 'revised edition' represents a complete reworking of Thomas H. Johnson's 1940 bibliography and nearly doubles its size. Here readers will find complete documentation of every publication of Jonathan Edwards’s writings. This volume will be the standard bibliography for decades to come. A copy belongs in every library with an interest in research on America’s first great thinker.

Summer Hours Now Posted

Please consult our summer hours to make sure you don't get locked out! Please remember that the library is closed on Sundays during the summer.

Announcing the Digital Library of Karl Barth

In association with the Theologischer Verlag Zürich (TVZ) and Princeton Theological Seminary, Alexander Street Press is pleased to offer the first major online collection of Karl Barth's works. Combining comprehensiveness with a carefully crafted set of text-analysis tools, The Digital Karl Barth Library will support a new generation of research into the works of one of the twentieth century's most influential theologians. The current release features the first 36 volumes of Barth's Gesamtausgabe, originally published under the TVZ imprint. Among the works included in the Gesamtausgabe are hundreds of letters, sermons, lectures, conversations, and academic writings. New content, including Barth's monumental Kirchliche Dogmatik, will be added on a quarterly basis. The Digital Library of Karl Barth is currently accessible to all students at Princeton Theological Seminary.

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