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Chicago Manual of Style now online November 5, 2009

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We are pleased to announce that the Chicago Manual of Style Online is now available for the Duke community.  The Chicago Manual of Style, the foundation for Turabian and the SBL Handbook of Style, has a nearly comprehensive list of citation examples that can help sort out tricky citation problems. In addition to citation help, the Chicago Manual of Style provides standards for punctuation, grammar, and abbreviations that are used in many publications. The online version provides access to a surprisingly entertaining Q&A as well as other tools, templates, and samples.

Top Ten Contest winner October 29, 2009

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Thank you for submitting your favorite reasons to come to the Divinity School Library in our recent Theological Library Month contest. The 2009 winner was doctoral student Maria Doerfler for her entry “… by year 3 of your Duke career, you might actually be able to find your way from Folios to Front Desk without a trail of breadcrumbs.”

Other entries included:
Brad Acton

  • You might get to talk to Brad Acton.
  • You can faithfully live into the social gospel by caring for the homeless guy that sleeps in the quartos…seriously.
  • Andy Keck can turn your Coffee Cup into a fully functional Macbook Pro.
  • Being in the stacks when the bell rings at 10:50PM can make you question your understanding of theodicy.

    • Cheri Benjamin

  • My reason for being here is to interact with other like minded folks.

    • Wes Brown

  • I can enter as many times as I like!

    • Brian M. Bryant

  • because it is the same space where many great theologians, ministers and leaders, those of today and yesterday, have studied, worshiped and wrestled in and with the great calling from above.

    • Johann Choi

  • because… I work here. If I didn’t show up, I’d probably get fired.

    • Blake Daniel

  • nowhere else can I hang out not just with Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, and Calvin but also Lewis, Bonhoeffer, Wright, and Hauerwas — all in one building!
  • I like living on the edge when I pass through the angry metal detector on my way out…
  • I love printing for (virtually) free!

    • Maria Doerfler

  • … by year 3 of your Duke career, you might actually be able to find your way from Folios to Front Desk without a trail of breadcrumbs. :)
  • … seeing your friends’ status updates on Facebook is simply no substitute for the camaraderie of the Reference Room!

    • Wesley Johnson

  • Only the Divinity School Library has the York Room–a once solemn and holy place of worship, now a solemn and holy place of study.

    • Ches Kennedy

  • Luba is here!

    • Todd Maberry

  • of the theological conversation taking place on the wall of the bathroom in the sub-basement.

    • Eric Meckley

  • Service with a smile. :)
  • monopoly money pays for the printer.
  • come for the books, stay for the people.

    • Emily Scales

  • guitar lessons are being offered. We have the books and now a guitar to share the gift of music with the world!

    • Hannah R. Terry

  • It’s the one stop shop. Searching for Wesley’s sermons? Looking for a secluded reading nook in the stacks? Have 56 pages of reading for CH13 and need a stapler that can do the trick? or want a hug? Look no further.

    • Celia Wolff

  • …I can’t afford to buy all the books I need to use, and the Divinity School Library has almost all of them. The Divinity Library also takes purchase suggestions, and is a convenient pick up location for interlibrary loan requests.
  • …the York Room, with its neo-Gothic woodwork and lamps and heavy, dark-stained tables, feels like a place of ancient sacred learning, and it might rub off on people who study in it. Some days one could even imagine that it’s Hogwarts.
  • …there’s a steady rotation of beautiful art exhibits, like Debra Band’s illuminated Psalms.
  • …between the books, periodicals, electronic resources and”most of all” the people, there’s no better place on campus to pursue theological research.

    • Loeb Classical Library newly organized October 29, 2009

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    By patron request, we have divided our Loeb collection into Greek and Latin sets which are organized by author and located near the stairs leading to the Reference Room. The Loeb Classical Library has become a standard source for scholarly editions of important Greek and Latin works with English translation. The editors of each volume provide introductions, critical and explanatory notes, and selective bibliographies. We hope the new organization will facilitate your browsing of these significant volumes.

    Dr. D. Moody Smith speaks in the York Room, Oct 29th, 12:30pm October 23, 2009

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    Please join us for a special event in the York Room on October 29 at 12:30pm to hear Dr. D. Moody Smith talk about working in the library as a student, ‘back in the day.’ Dr. Smith is the George Washington Ivey Professor Emeritus of New Testament at Duke University Divinity School and is a recipient of the “Library Student Library Worker Hall of Fame” which is an honor bestowed on some graduates of Duke who, as students, worked in the Divinity School Library. This list also includes the Rev. Dr. Marie Fortune, founder of the Faith Trust Institute and an ordained pastor of the United Church of Christ, and Dr. Jerry Campbell, President and Professor of Theological Bibliography at Claremont School of Theology and an ordained elder of The United Methodist Church. This final event will close this year’s Theological Libraries Month celebration. The winner of the 2009 ‘Why I Should Come to the Divinity School Library’ contest will also be announced. A light lunch will be served.

    Contest: “Top Ten Reasons Why” (Deadline, Sunday, Oct 25th) October 22, 2009

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    What is your favorite reason to come to the Divinity School Library?  Let us know by entering our contest here.  Winners and prizes will be announced after Dr. D. Moody Smith’s remarks at the Library Workers Hall of Fame event on October 29th at 12:30pm.

    Here are some entries from years gone by to get your creative juices flowing:

    “Someone told me that there’s a hundred dollar bill hidden in one of the books.”

    “Studying in the York Room will let you get to live out your fantasy of being one of the Harry Potter characters and attending Hogwarts!”

    “Stanley Hauerwas said so.”

    “I’ve always liked mazes.”

    Enter as many times as you like.

    Good luck!

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