Library Statistics for Fiscal Year 2008-09

For the statistics junkies: how many books the library owns, how many were borrowed, how many online journal articles were downloaded, etc. 2008-09 library statistics.

Announcement posted 11/3/2009

Elenchus of ETL documentation updated

Elenchus of ETL . Learn how to use Elenchus of Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses. This is NOT Elenchus of Biblica.

Announcement posted 8/28/2009

EndNote Software Discontinued

EndNote is no longer provided as a download and is no longer supported by DTS. For alternatives, see Software for Creating Footnotes and Bibliographies.

Announcement posted 8/20/2009

Just for Kids

Looking for books, DVDs and CDs for young children? See our new children's collection! Local public libraries and book stores have a wealth of edifying (and sometimes not so edifying) secular material for kids of all ages. But public libraries typically have little religious material for kids. Our collection is meant to complement what you find at the public library and to show you how a church library can minister to children. Located behind the bound periodicals, the books and media are primarily for preschool through sixth grade children, and can be borrowed for three weeks. Works range from classic to contemporary, and we will gradually add new items.

Announcement posted 8/3/2009

New Wireless ID and Password

Userid and password for campus wireless network have changed. Use your DTSID and library password to get the new information.

Announcement posted 8/3/2009

Library Orientation for New Students, Aug 25—Sept 2, 2009

• Learn how to search BIBLOS and ATLA.
• Tour the library and computer lab.
• Meet the staff and hear about services that will help you.

Sign-up for a small group session. This is especially valuable for MA students who do not take RS101. Orientation sessions are tentatively scheduled for the following times this semester, but cancellation of any time slot is possible. Sign up at the circulation desk to confirm exact times. Meet at the globe near the circulation desk for the training session.

Unable to make a session? See our online tutorials for an introduction to databases. Browse the website for general introduction, calendar, House Rules, FAQ, help, and more. Contact library reference staff for personal help.

Announcement revised 7/17/2009

Updated documentation for ATLA

See our updated ATLA Tips. We added a section on the new Heirarchical Scripture Reference feature and a section on Zotero. We deleted the section on EndNote. The change from html to pdf format provides better hard copy. Online practice is still available. (Displays questions in one frame, and allows live searches of ATLA in another frame; answers appear on demand).

Announcement posted 7/17/2009

Updated documentation for TLG

See our updated Introduction to Searching TLG. The changes are modest, but lemma search is finally past beta development stage.

Announcement posted 6/30/2009

New ATLA Heirarchical Scripture Reference Index

The ATLA database now supports a new Scripture Reference index to specific chapters and verses of the Bible. Just pick the Scripture menu item as illustrated above.

The system will respond with a list of books of the bible in canonical order. Select "Expand" to display chapter and then verse-specific choices.

The good news is that a verse-specific selection will match ranges that implicitly include that verse. For example, select Deut 6:5 and you will retrieve not only records that mention that exact verse, but also records that refer to Deut 6:1-7 and Deut 6:1-9. The indexing routine understand 6:5 is included in 6:1-7. Very nice.

This new index is based on the long standing Scripture Citation index and therefore has inherited the coverage limitations of the SC index. Before the end of summer we will update our ATLA documentation to reflect the new SR index and to indicate when using the old SC index is still preferable.

Announcement posted 6/17/2009

Unicode Fonts for Biblical Studies

Suppose you compose your paper at home, then bring the file to the library computer lab to print using our laser printers. But we don't have the fonts you used for Greek and Hebrew. What happens when you print? How can you prevent this problem? See our introduction to unicode fonts. And learn where to get free fonts.

Announcement posted 6/12/2009

Software for Creating Footnotes and Bibliographies

Frustrated by the tedium of creating properly formatted footnotes and bibliographies? Struggling to keep track of hundreds or even thousands of sources in your bibliography? See our guide to Software for Creating Footnotes and Bibliographies. Note our new Introduction to Zotero, which provides a very brief explanation of how to use Zotero, including how to import records from EndNote, how to build a database of citations, and how to create footnotes while composing your paper in MS Word. This will be especially valuable for students who have been using EndNote and wish to migrate to Zotero.

Announcement posted 6/8/2009

New Library Director

Marvin Hunn was appointed Library Director 5/15/2009. He brings a ThM, MLS, and 31 years of experience to the job, with particular strengths in public services and information technologies.

"I am delighted to assume this role. In some ways my duties should be easy because DTS itself is strong, and Turpin Library has an experienced staff and a fine collection. At the same time I expect the library will face significant challenges because theological libraries are operating in a rapidly changing environment. Students are changing. Pedagogy is changing. Information delivery systems are changing. The library must learn to serve both new online/extension programs and traditional residental campus programs. We must integrate both new digital resources and traditional analog/paper resources. We must find ways to adapt library services without following foolish and wasteful fads. We invite DTS faculty, students and staff to help us. Are there changes you would like to see in library policies, services, information resources, or facilities? Now is an opportune time to let us know."

Announcement posted 5/28/2009

New database: Electronic Thesis Online Service (EThOS)

EThOS offers access to full-text doctoral theses from participating UK Higher Education Institutions right to your desktop and usually for free. It contains over 250,000 records at this time (3/2009), but most are non-theological, so don't get too excited. To see a thesis, create a login and check the agreement to honor the conditions of use. After that you may download the thesis to print and/or store it electronically for an unlimited time. If you want to read a thesis that EThOS has not digitized, you may request it from them. Staff from EThOS will inform you when the thesis is ready for download or will let you know if they are unable to make it available. Many UK institutions offer free download to the researcher. A small number of participating institutions do not offer Open Access, and the researcher may have to pay for digitization in that case. EThOS is operated by The British Library on a not-for-profit basis and charges are set only to cover costs.

Announcement posted 3/30/2009

New Supplement to Turabian

The revised DTS Supplement to Turabian provides guidance on how to adapt Turabian 7th edition to DTS papers, theses, and dissertations. The new supplement omits the section on Internet resources that was in the old supplement because Turabian itself now treats them quite adequately. The supplement now includes more examples of special and potentially problematic source citations, e.g., lexica, theological encyclopedia, chapters from edited multi-volume works, etc. The supplement now specifies that bibliographic references must include a series title and number, if applicable, but the name of the series editor is now optional. New MS Word templates are also available.

Announcement posted 1/11/2008; revised 1/22

New documentation: OTA/NTA Tips

OTA/NTA tips introduces you to the basics of searching Old Testament Abstracts and New Testament Abstracts using the EBSCO interface. OTA and NTA provide one-paragraph summaries of journal articles and essays about the Bible, biblical languages, and history and archaeology of the biblical era. These databases are major time savers. Learn how to make good use of them.

Announcement posted 12/11/2007

ATLA subject headings for Bible passages have changed

ATLA has changed the standard form of entry for subject headings about Bible passages. It used to be like this:
Bible (NT) Corinthians I 11-14
but it is now like this:
Bible. Corinthians I 11-14

Note "(OT)" and "(NT)" no longer appear in the headings.

The form of entry for Scripture Citation field searches/browses has not changed. Confused about the distinction between the subject field and the scripture citation field? For a refresher in how to lookup Bible Passages in ATLA, see ATLA Tips.

Announcement posted 11/28/2007.

New database: Calvinism Resources Database

Calvinism Resources Database includes about 10,000 citations for journal articles, book essays, book reviews, and lectures. The list of journals indexed is unavailable but extensive. Browse by subject or author. Search by keyword, title, subject, author, journal, year, or abstract with Boolean AND and OR but no wildcard. Search and mark records. Save or print a bibliography from the marked records. Marks are deleted with a new search. Sorting works imperfectly, and records contain some typos. In some cases you must click a title to go to the fuller record for publication information, but these records cannot be added to a bibliography list. Maintained by the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies and available free to all.

Announcement posted 9/12/2007.

New database: Philosopher's Index

Philosopher's Index cites scholarly journal articles, essays, books, and book reviews, published from 1940 to the present in English and major European languages. Most articles and essays are abstracted. PI focuses on aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics, but also includes literature on philosophy of education, history, science, religion and other fields. Try sample searches for religion, faith, free will, theism, interpretation (= hermeneutics), philosophical anthropology (= nature of man), soul and resurrection to get a feel for the range of useful topics covered.

Announcement posted 8/28/2007.

New database: JSTOR

JSTOR includes over 700 full-text scholarly journals in the fields of history, archaeology, classics, the arts, literature, psychology and various sciences, education, language, and much more. Coverage of theology/religion is weak, but this database is a good complement to our religious resources. JSTOR provides complete retrospective access for each journal from the year of inception up to a recent cutoff date, but does NOT supply access to very most recent volumes. (Recent is defined by the publisher but usually means the five most recent years are not available. This is meant to protect income the publishers make from current subscriptions.) Includes articles and book reviews.

Journals in JSTOR are listed in the library ejournal listing. So if you already have a journal citation, go to the ejournal list to see if that journal is included in jstor or one or our other ejournal packages.

You can go directly to JSTOR and search for articles. Search title, author, or full-text; limit by journal or discipline. Browse by discipline, journal, and issue. Use Boolean operators and some fancier features such as synonym expansion. Sorts by relevance, journal title, or year.

You can also use Internet search engines like Google and Yahoo and MSN Live Search to find JSTOR articles. But if you are off the Dallas campus when you search via these search engines, then you will not be able to display the actual articles unless you login to the library proxy server to authenticate your relation to DTS. See our tech note on engaging the proxy authentication mechanism to display articles. This is the most confusing aspect to using JSTOR when you are off campus. It is not an issue when you are on the Dallas campus.

Announcement posted 8/9/2007.

New database: Searchable Greek Inscriptions

The Searchable Greek Inscriptions database currently (May 2007) contains Greek inscriptions from Greece (including Crete, Cyprus, Thrace), the north coast of the Black Sea, Syria, Egypt, North Africa, Germany, and unknown provenances organized by period and corpora just like the IG outline. Browse by geographic area or search for words and phrases. Includes all Greek inscriptions formerly on the PHI cdrom, and PHI plans to expand the database. These inscriptions are not included in TLG (which consists of literary texts only). This website requires a Java enabled browser. Available free from Packard Humanities Institute. See our SGI tutorial for a brief intro to searching this database.

Announcement posted 5/21/2007

Copy unavailable? Try this!

Suppose you find what you need listed in BIBLOS but all copies are unavailable. Then you can check to see what other libraries own the item. Just click the "Check nearby libraries" link.

Note this search looks for matching ISBNs (international standard book numbers) so it only searches for the exact edition specified by the ISBN. The same intellectual content may appear in multiple editions, such as hardback, paperback, American imprint, British imprint, etc. so an ISBN search is not an exhaustive search for all variant editions of the same intelletucal content. But it sure is easy!

Announcement posted 2006; revised 3/2007

Revised RTA tutorial

The revised Religious and Theological Abstracts tutorial provides a brief introduction to RTA database. Read about the new features.

Announcement posted 3/21/2007

Revised Accordance tutorial

The revised Accordance tutorial provides a brief introduction to Accordance Bible study software. Library reference staff and media center staff can provide additional assistance but for some issues you must contact the Accordance help desk.

Announcement posted 3/2007

Selected books from Special Collections now viewable online

Over 290 items from Turpin Library's Special Collections are now available online! Dates of publication span five centuries, from the 1500s through the 1900s. Browse them at http://rarebooks.dts.edu or access them by searching BIBLOS. See, for example, Heinrich Bullinger, Hundred Sermons on the Apocalypse of Jesus Christ, published in 1561.

The majority of the books scanned were theological, and subjects include premillenialism and biblical prophecy, especially Daniel and Revelation, covenant theology, and puritan writings. A few titles relate to the history of Dallas Theological Seminary.

Announcement posted 2/9/2007

New database: TLG cd-rom superseded by TLG Online

For more than a decade we have had access to the TLG cd-rom. But now we have access to the expanded TLG Online. The current online release of Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) includes nearly all surviving Greek texts dating from 8th century B.C. to A.D. 600, and the majority of surviving works up the fall of Byzantium in A.D. 1453. It does not include "non-literary" documents like business records, general correspondence, inscriptions, etc. Find information about the authors and works included in the TLG Library in the Canon of Greek Authors and Works at the TLG website. Wondering what the difference is between Perseus and TLG? Perseus provides convenient English translations for a limited but important body of searchable Greek text. TLG offers no English, but covers far, far more Greek text. Both provide links to LSJ lexicon entries. Use Perseus to save time. Use TLG to be thorough.

Announcement posted 2/5/2007

New database: Communication Abstracts

CommAbs covers approximately 130 of the most important scholarly journals about communication. Coverage of mass communication topics (journalism, broadcasting, advertising, plus technological, legal and business aspects of mass communication) predominates but you will also find material about interpersonal communication in various social and cultural settings, and material about rhetoric and oratory. See introduction to ComAbs for fuller description and search tips.

Announcement posted 11/2006

Search BIBLOS from Your Browser Searchbox

You can search BIBLOS from the built-in searchboxes in Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7. This will allow you to search BIBLOS any time you wish without going to the library website and without logging in. Learn how to add BIBLOS to browser searchbox.

Announcement posted 11/2006

New database: Index Theologicus

Index theologicus is important as a current awareness source. Journals are indexed within 24 hours of the time they are received at the Tübingen university library, so this is by far the most current theological database. See our Intro to IxTheo for fuller description and search tips.

Announcement posted 9/21/2006

New database: eJournal List

Most but not all of the ejournals available from the library are included in the Serials Solutions ejournal listing. Use this resource if you already have a citation to a specific journal article and you want to know if that article is available full-text online. See Finding Online Articles In The eJournal List for a brief tutorial.

Announcement posted 9/14/2006

How to purchase dissertations

You can often borrow copies of dissertations via Interlibrary Loan. However, you also have a purchase option.

Use Dissertation Express to purchase copies of dissertations with your credit card. Includes DTS dissertations. Older dissertations are available only in paper or microform; more recent ones (generally from 1997 on) are also available as digital images in a pdf wrapper. A typical dissertation download is 12 to 14 megabytes. Search by author, title, or order number. Cannot search or display abstracts. Use DAI for subject searching. Additional info.

Reminder of long standing service

New databases: AIGYPTOS and LDAB

AIGYPTOS aims to provde full coverage of publications in the field of Egyptology from 1978 to date. Currently adds three to five thousand records annually. Lists books, dissertations, articles, and reviews. No full-text, but includes publication information, ISBN, subjects, and keywords in British English even for non-English titles. Click the flag for an English interface and follow instructions for entering the database. The Search page describes use of Boolean operators. Over a dozen searchable fields with an browse index available for any field. Click on a title in the results list for more detail. See Help for instructions on searching. Aigyptos is a joint project of the Institute of Egyptology of the University of Munich and the Department of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg and is available to all at no cost.

The Leuven Database of Ancient Books (LDAB) lists sources for images, facsimiles, transcriptions and related information about ancient texts. Over 8000 Greek MSS. Uses phrase searching. Boolean operators not supported, but wildcarding is automatic. Use New Testament as author name. For book name, use book of the Bible; e.g., Hebrews, Romans, but Mt for Matthew, and Joh for John. Try abbreviations to bring up the correct form. To search include necessary information only. For example, to investigate Heb 3:13 in P13, type P13 in the Repertories field and type Hebrews in the Book field. Specifying chapter and verse will miss the record for "Hebrews 2.14-5.5; 10-12". Sort by author, date, etc., as desired. This database is a free public Internet resource.

Announcement posted 12/19/2005

Scofield archives

The DTS Archives recently solicited and received a small collection of research material from Dr. William A. BeVier, a DTS alumnus. The collection is composed of correspondence and copies of resources he collected while writing A Biographical Sketch of C. I. Scofield, his masters thesis at SMU in 1960. This collection is significant because it includes copies of several of the limited original resources concerning Scofield, which are housed in various repositories. The collection also gives insight into BeVier's research process and represents a time when photocopiers were not common.

BeVier's collection complements some other small collections in the DTS Archives. In 2002 we received a donation of fifteen letters (forty six leaves) C. I. Scofield wrote to Frank W. Boyle, a pastor Scofield mentored. The Archives staff created a collection of photocopies of documents at Scofield Memorial Church. The material copied included church records related to Scofield and L. S. Chafer as well as a few Scofield Family papers. Another collection in the Archives consists of photocopies of two letters written by Scofield to his daughters. There is also some Scofield material in unprocessed papers related to L. S. Chafer. We are creating records in the library's online catalog to help potential researchers to locate this archival material. The collections have greater value as a group than they have individually, and would be a good starting point for research about Scofield.

Announcement posted 10/31/2005

New database: Elenchus of ETL

Since 1920 the print vols of the "Elenchus" section of the journal Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses have been an important bibliography for Christian theology in the broad sense. A small portion of this bibliography covering vol 74 (1998) to date has recently become available as Elenchus ETL Online. As this database grows it will be an increasingly important resource. For now you must still consult the print vols for retrospective coverage. Print vols continue to be shelved at the index table.

Elenchus ETL covers church history, biblical studies, dogmatics, ethics, pastoral theology, church education, and Roman Catholic canon law. It is valued especially for systematic theology. Don't confuse it with Elenchus of Biblica which focuses on biblical studies. ETL indexes books, articles, essays, and dissertations mostly in European languages (including English, of course). Emphasis is on scholarly literature. Roman Catholic sources are covered especially well. Each year about 12,000 new items are indexed.

ETL uses a subject heirarchical classified arrangement (outline) which requires you to browse broad subject categories although there are separate indexes for authors, and names of people as subjects. In the database, the "thesaurus" index searches these broad subject categories. If you don't find a match in the thesaurus index, do a keyword search (of title words), view records in detail (not the abridged display), and identify the subject categories used for those records. Then execute a second search using those codes to retrieve additional potentially relevant citations.

This is Elenchus of ETL, not Elenchus of Biblica (the important bibliography of biblical studies).

Announcement posted 9/21/2005

New database: Linguistic Bibliography

Lingusitic Bibliography cites scholarly books and journal articles on linguistics and all the languages of the world, including linguistic aspects of psychology, sociology, anthropology, and computer science. Missiologists should note it is weak in applied linguistics. The database covers only 1993 to date, so it is still small. It is based on print vols of UNESCO Bibliographie Linguistique (which begins in 1950 and is much more complete). So-called subjects are really 100 possible classification codes. Unsure which class code to use? Do a keyword search (of title words), view records in detail (not the abridged display), and identify the class codes used for those records. Then execute a second search using those codes.

Announcement posted 9/15/2005

New Service: "Due Soon" Early Notice

Always forgetting when your books are due? Want to avoid overdue fines? A new library service may help you. The library now sends "Due Soon" early warning notices two days before borrowed items are due. This reminds users to return or renew the items before they become overdue. This is a courtesy notice. The library is not obligated to remind borrowers just before an item comes due, and failure to receive a notice does not absolve borrowers of responsibility for returning items on time.

Announcement posted 8/2005.

New Policy: Early Privileges for Incoming Students

Incoming new students who have registered and paid for the upcoming semester are now extended full student privileges two weeks before their first semester begins so they can work ahead on assignments.

The policy concerning prospective students remains unchanged. Prospective students who have been admitted for an upcoming semester but have not registered and paid for the current semester are not current students and are not eligible for borrowing privileges. Contact the library if you are in this category and have special needs.

Announcement posted 8/2005.

New databases: Old Testament Abstracts and New Testament Abstracts

For decades the print vols of OTA and NTA have been mainstays of biblical research. Now Turpin Library provides access to OTA and NTA online.

Old Testament Abstracts and New Testament Abstracts abstract journal articles and essays on the bible, biblical languages, and history and archaeology of the biblical era. Most important English language biblical studies journals and many non-English journals are included. Abstracts are always in English. Emphasis is on scholarly literature, but some popular magazines are included. Many theological viewpoints are represented, but there is some emphasis on Roman Catholic sources. OTA and NTA are available online and also in print. As of July 2005, OTA database held 40,000 records (27,000 journal articles; 7,000 essays; the rest books) for literature dating from 1977 to date, just like the print vols. As of July 2005, NTA database contained 33,000 articles abstracts, 13,800 essay and book abstracts. The NTA database covers publications dating from 1985. On the other hand, print vols of NTA begin with 1956. Eventually the database will be as complete as the print. The print volumes have scripture passage and Greek or Hebrew word indexes, but there are no subject headings so you must browse under broad subject categories outlined in the table of contents for subject access.

Announcement revised 7/27/2005

PINs changed for enhanced privacy and security

All library PINs/passwords were changed 12/29/2004. Your new PIN/password is your last name. Only the first ten characters were used if your last name is longer than 10 characters. Common punctation is retained, for example hyphen (-), straight apostrophe ('), period (.) and space ( ). If your name includes diacritics (such as umlaut, accent, etc.) then contact us for information about your password. For example:

For additional privacy/security, you may use the "My Account" module of BIBLOS to change your PIN/password at any time. The library encourages you to pick a secure and memorable password immediately rather than retaining the name-based default value we have supplied for you. As always, library circulation staff cannot see your PIN but they can change it for you if you present photo ID to prove who you are.

Why have we made this change? Under the old system, each library user was assigned a default PIN consisting of the last 4 digits of his/her social security number. Many people retained this PIN rather than picking a new one. This left some potentially sensitive information in the library database. Old PINs have been purged from the library database to guarantee we do not have even partial ssn information about anyone. The library database has not suffered a breech of security, and we have no reason to believe any confidential information has escaped, but malicious crackers daily attempt to break into the library server, so we have taken this precautionary step.

Announcement posted 12/28/2004.

DTS grads may now use the ATLA/ATLAS database

Turpin Library has purchased access to the ATLA/ATLAS database for DTS graduates. There are over one million citations in ATLA, some of which are linked to complete articles. In fact, over 50,000 full-text scholarly theological journal articles are available online. This includes articles from Bib Sac, JBL, JETS and a host of important titles. (At present the articles are delivered as pdf graphic images. The graphic files are big so downloading or printing may take considerable time. Within a few years the images will be supplemented with fully searchable texts of the articles, and downloading will be much faster.)

ATLA provides fairly complete coverage of Christianity and selective coverage of other religions from 1949 to date (and retrospective indexing is underway). ATLA indexes articles and book reviews from most major English language theological journals and from some especially important non-English journals. It also indexes essays/chapters from selected festschriften, conference proceedings, and other multi-author books. ATLA indexes literature on Bible, theology, church history, pastoral ministries, world missions, and current events. The focus is scholarly theological literature, but it includes a sampling of non-scholarly publications about popular Christian culture and church life especially from the mainline Protestant viewpoint.

Access ATLA from the Electronic Research Resources for Alumni page and login using your DTS ID and library PIN/password. ATTEMPTS TO CONNECT FROM OTHER PAGES WILL FAIL because those other pages require current student logins.

See here for more information about your DTS ID and library PIN/password.

Announcement posted 12/14/2004.

9,000 eBooks Now Listed in BIBLOS

What is an eBook?
You can read these electronic books online whether you are on campus or at home. You do need to create a personal account so you can "checkout" (view) any ebook for 24 hours use. Without the personal account, you can only view an ebook for 15 minute increments.

eBook records in BIBLOS
Since 2001, Turpin Library has offered students access to ebooks through the Netlibrary website. We acquire additional ebooks every year and now have access to almost 30,000. Over the years our ebook collection has been little-used. We believe adding records to BIBLOS for selected titles will make these valuable resources more visible to all students.

A typical ebook record in BIBLOS looks like the image at left. Just click "URL" to display the complete book.

Personal Account
You must have a personal Netlibrary account to "checkout" an ebook. This is absolutely free. See Netlibrary Accounts for instructions on how to create an account. Once you have created your account, you will be able to read NetLibrary ebooks anytime, anywhere.

Advanced features
Although BIBLOS lists 9,000 of the ebooks, you must go to the Netlibray site to have access to the full 30,000 volume collection. The Netlibrary interface provides many advanced features. Chief of these is that you can search for phrases in the ebooks, just as you would use Google to search for phrases in web pages.

Why only 9,000 out of 30,000
We acquired most of the ebooks as part of a package through TexShare, a tax supported consortium of academic and public libraries. The consortium selected the titles, including many that are not directly relevant to the seminary curriculum (e.g., fiction, juvenile literature, auto repair manuals, scientific monographs, etc.) Turpin Library staff selected 9,000 out of the 30,000 to add to BIBLOS. This increases visibility of ebooks relevant to the curriculum without cluttering the catalog with works less likely to be in demand. (Actually, staff used a computer program to select records based on call number ranges and a list of keywords; it is probable that the program added records for some works that are not relevant to the curriculum.)

Announcement posted 12/10/2004.

Digitization/Scanning/Ebook Project Begins Nov 2004

Nov, 2004. Logos, well known publisher of electronic/digital books and developer of Logos/Libronix bible study software, is now scanning public domain books from the Turpin Library collection. The scanning crew is using the very sophisticated robotic Kirtas scanner. Only books published before 1923 are being scanned because we can be certain the copyright has expired on these materials. Logos may scan as many as 15,000 volumes(?) at Turpin Library, then move to another library. Expect to see publication information at the Logos website in about a year.

Announcement posted 10/27/2004

New database: Christian Periodical Index

Turpin Library now provides access to Christian Periodical Index. CPI is a good guide to popular evangelical culture and religious life and thus supplements the more scholarly ATLA database.

Announcement posted 7/2004