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Biblical Commentary from Historic Sources – New Research Guide

Andrew Keck — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:55:22 +0000

The Divinity School Library is pleased to promote a new research guide devoted to Biblical Commentary from Historic Sources. The guide includes historic commentaries, historical works with scriptural indexes, and scriptural indexes to the Patristics.

Four of the Top Ten Reasons to come to the Divinity School Library

Andrew Keck — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 23:27:51 +0000

It’s on! The Library staff hopes to inspire your creativity by posting our own video. Come on, give it your best shot. Give us another reason to come to the Divinity School Library by entering our contest.

Digital Dead Sea Scrolls

Andrew Keck — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:49:52 +0000

The first fruits of a partnership between the Israel Museum and Google are now available as the Digital Dead Sea Scrolls. Five complete scrolls from the Israel Museum have been digitized for the project at this stage including the Great Isaiah Scroll, the Community Rule Scroll, the Commentary on Habakkuk Scroll, the Temple Scroll, and the War Scroll. In addition to the high-resolution images for each scroll, the Great Isaiah Scroll is can be viewed by chapter and verse with English translation.

Library catalog and QuickSearch

Andrew Keck — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:20:27 +0000

As of July 5th, the library catalog will add some new features and improvements. The new interface includes the display of related subject searches, a “shopping cart” feature for adding multiple citations, a new view of holdings at other area research libraries, and a significant improvement in speed. In addition to the updated library catalog, the Duke University Libraries have implemented a new tool called QuickSearch which searches our library catalog, a broad selection of journal articles, our research guides, and material in our DukeSpace repository. Quicksearch may be particularly helpful for interdisciplinary searching.

Duke Digital Collections reborn

Andrew Keck — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:01:37 +0000

If you haven’t looked at the Duke Digital Collections in a while (or ever!), check out their new website where you can search among the digitized books, sheet music, advertisements, photographs, and more. Our digital collections provide you with digital versions of library materials as well as tools to browse, search, and analyze these materials online. The collection includes construction photographs of the Divinity School, songs about preaching, photographs of churches, and the Images of mainline Protestant children and Families in the U.S. collection. If you are looking for a good image or primary resource for your research, be sure to check this out.

Encyclopedia of Religion in America: our 400,000th volume

Andrew Keck — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:36:11 +0000

The Divinity School Library is proud to announce the acquisition of our 400,000th book, the Encyclopedia of Religion in America now available in the Divinity School Reference Room at BL 2520 .E52 2010 and online. The Encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference source on the historical development of faiths in North America and religion’s intersection with political, social, and economic life. In the four-volume set, Dr. Kate Bowler published the entry, “Positive Thinking,” and Dr. Grant Wacker served as an editorial advisor.

Database update: Chicago Manual of Style 16th edition

Andrew Keck — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:16:01 +0000

The Chicago Manual of Style 16th Edition is now available online and in print at Z253 .C57 in the Ready Reference shelves near the Reference Desk in the Divinity School Library. The 16th edition provides additional guidance in formatting citations of electronic publications. Since many continue to work on projects that require use of the 15th edition, the 15th edition content will be maintained online and in print for a period of time.

Fall 2010 Newsletter

Andrew Keck — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:05:45 +0000

Welcome to the Divinity School Library, and best wishes to you for fall 2010! We thought you should know about some changes we’ve made to improve the library and to make it easier for you to use. Please read on!

1. Research help @ the Divinity School Library

2. York Room changes

3. ePrint software upgrade required

4. Save money, avoid fines

5. Divinity School Library Kindles available

6. Dave Munden takes a turn at our Reference Desk

7. Disappearing periodicals?

8. Theological Library Month in October

9. What to do with books you don’t need? Donate them to the library

Documenting the Local Church

Andrew Keck — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:59:49 +0000

A grant-funded project will help digitize and make available histories and other documents of local religious bodies as well as publications of larger denominations.
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Divinity School Library Kindles now available

Andrew Keck — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:54:26 +0000

The Divinity School Library has three Kindles now available for two-week loan to all members of the Duke community. Titles licensed for these Kindles include a number of standard textbooks used in the Divinity School, Divinity School faculty publications, and some reference works. Through a special grant from the International Collaboration Committee of the American Theological Library Association, a matching set of three Kindles has also been provided to ISTHA, a seminary outside Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire in West Africa. A full list of titles can found on the library catalog. Additional Kindles are also available at Perkins and Lilly libraries with a different set of titles.