ATLA Pre-pre-conference
While many of the ATLA staff have been in Ottawa since Sunday working to get everything ready for the conference, I just arrived in Ottawa today. After so many days of horrible travelling weather this...
View ArticleTechnical Services Anonymous
"Hi, my name is Blake and I am a recovering Technical Services Librarian."I introduced myself this way at the Technical Services Interest Group meeting tonight just to be funny. (That's me, the...
View ArticleRe-Writing & Grant Writing
I spent most of my time today attending two pre-conference workshops: One on doing scholarly writing for the soon-to-be-unveiled new journal, Theological Librarianship, and one on ways to become more...
View Article2 Receptions
There was a full house for the new member's reception this evening:I was able to spend part of the evening with a new member from the South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies from Bangalore,...
View ArticleConsortial Leverage, Canadian-Style
The ATLA conference's opening plenary session was a fascinating inside look at the consortial purchasing power of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network. The presentor was Leslie Weir, University...
View ArticleTeaching, Learning, & Faculty Collaboration
Most of my time during the first day of the conference was focused on issues surrounding library involvement in teaching and learning. (Though there was the ever highly stimulating ATLA business...
View ArticleNews Flash 1: ATLA Involvement in ATS Revisions
Dennis Norlin reported this morning that ATS announced at its recent biennial meeting that it is beginning a 4-year review process to revise the accreditation standards. ATS reported several trends...
View ArticleNews Flash 2: EBSCO/ATLA Digital Archives
It was announced at this morning's Town Meeting that EBSCO is partnering with ATLA to provide a digital archives collection. This announcement has also been released through various online forums. From...
View ArticleATLA in DSpace: A Digital Repository Proposal
I am grateful to Tracy Powell from the Pitts Theology Library at Emory University for initiating a roundtable discussion on establishing a digital repository for theological librarians. Her...
View ArticleSome More On Libraries & Facebook
This morning's roundtable was about Facebook. Roger Loyd, Michelle Spomer, and Emily Knox each shared some of their experiments with Facebook and with creating Facebook Pages for their libraries....
View ArticlePeople of the Book
The most thought-provoking seminar that I attended during the conference just happened to also take place on the last day of the conference. I am grateful to Anthony Elia from the JKM Library for his...
View ArticleInformation Commons: A New Concept?
For my final roundtable of the conference, I attended the Information Commons roundtable led by members of the Information Commons staff from Asbury Theological Seminary. Last year, quite a large group...
View ArticleGood Libraries & Good Students
Having just returned from the better part of a week in beautiful Ottawa, Ontario at the annual American Theological Library Association Conference, I find myself re-energized for the daily work of...
View ArticleIn Short, We Need More Space
One of my college professors used to use a humorous speech called "A Speech For All Occasions". It began with the phrase, "A funny thing happened to me on the way to the meeting," and built from there...
View ArticleOPAC Disease?
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the library: Many thanks to the students at Mary Gates Hall for demonstrating the presence of fecal coliform bacteria on the keyboards in the library...
View ArticleTo ATLA: A Modest Proposal
I had an earlier posting proposing the creation of a digital repository for theological librarians. I have now discovered another reason why we should create such a repository: It would be a great way...
View ArticleWhat's Wrong With Students Today?
Today's online Chronicle Careers is an article by Thomas H. Benton entitled "On Stupidity". In it, he briefly reviews a spate of books warning of America's burgeoning anti-intellectualism. He then...
View ArticleBest Wishes to William Patry
William Patry has announced the end of his Patry Copyright Blog.For the past four years, William Patry has provided a well-written inside look into the messy world of copyright legislation. In an area...
View ArticleLongest D.Min. Title Contest
It's that time of the year when we are working on processing the new D.Min. theses. A quick query of our catalog turned up one thesis title from 2001 that was 207 characters long:Development of an...
View ArticleAnd the Winner Is . . .
After having been gone on a lovely vacation in Colorado and after having unburied my desk at work, I am now prepared to declare the winner of the Longest Thesis Title Contest:Congratulations to Eric...
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