Divinity School Library - Fall 2008

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This newsletter contains the following good ideas; click to read more:
1. How do I find the good ideas (information) in the Library?
2. New library staff
3. Technology in the Divinity School Library
4. Research help @ the library
5. Library Service Center at Duke University
6. The library was converted? Yes, to Library of Congress
7. Coming in October: Theological Libraries Month
8. Towards a greener Divinity School Library
9. Avoid library fines
10. York Reading Room

1. How do I find the good ideas (information) in the Library?
One excellent way to find the good ideas in the library: ask your library staff for assistance. Reference librarians Andy Keck and Luba Zakharov, assisted by the circulation staff and the director, are here to help you and to save you time. Please ask (either in person, on the phone to our reference desk at 660-3453, or by email or instant message). See our web page for further ideas.

Two new catalog tools have been developed over the last year and released this summer. The first is a new search interface for the Duke Libraries that is known as the Basic Catalog. It provides advanced tools for keyword searching that both searches and displays enhanced tables of contents, summaries, and book cover images. The old catalog interface, now known as the Classic Catalog remains the interface of choice for browsing by title, author, or subject or to request books quickly from another Duke library.

The second catalog tool, SearchTRLN, offers a single search of the collections of the Duke, UNC-CH, NCSU, and NCCU, all members of the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN). The search interface provides new tools for keyword browsing that both searches and displays enhanced tables of contents, summaries, and book cover images. As a Duke student, staff, or faculty member, you may also request items held at another library directly from the search results page.

2. New library staff
We are delighted to report that Anne Marie Boyd will be returning to work in the Divinity School Library as the Circulation Assistant. She is filling the position that Andy Bowers vacated. Anne Marie is married to Gary and they have 2 girls. Anne Marie is excited to be back and looking forward to seeing old friends and new faces. Her responsibilities include checking in all periodicals received, assigning carrels to Ph.D. and Th.D. students, and acting as the library’s coordinator for services to persons with disabilities.

3. Technology in the Divinity School Library
The Divinity School Library has twelve public research terminals with access to hundreds of catalogs and databases available from its highly-ranked webpage. A large-format flatbed scanner, wireless coverage, and two ePrint release stations are also available on the main floor of the library. The Divinity School Library computer classroom offers students ten networked computers, a laser printer, and a projection system. The Computer Classroom includes Microsoft Office 2007, Adobe Acrobat, Bibleworks, and other software. Duke email accounts with a 100MB limit and file storage of up to 5 GB are automatically provided and free of charge. Printing is also currently free (within a generous semester quota) and your personal computer can be configured to print directly to the ePrint queue system.

The Divinity School Library has added a new microform scanner to help support the use of our growing collection of materials preserved on microform including rare and deteriorating books, missionary correspondence, denominational history (especially of Methodists), documentary history, archives, and international documents. The new microform scanner allows you to make a digital scan of the microform or microfiche for printing (through ePrint) or saving in a digital format. The scanner is located on the main level behind the current periodical shelves - feel free to ask library staff for assistance.

4. Research help @ the library
Mark your calendars NOW for the library and technology workshops being offered during the Fall 2008 semester. These 30 – 45 minute sessions begin at 12:30 in the Library’s Computer Classroom (on Level D) and you can register at http://library.duke.edu/divinity/. By the way, you might want to bring your laptop to the August 25, 26th session on Computing and Technology Help.
Mon-Tues, August 25-26......... Computing and Technology Help
Tuesday, September 2................Using EndNote to manage citations
Monday, September 8.................Introduction to BibleWorks 7
Tuesday, September 9................Library Tools for Biblical Exegesis
Monday, September 15...............Using EndNote to manage citations
Tuesday, September 16..............Introduction to BibleWorks 7
Monday, September 22...............Library Tools for Biblical Exegesis
Tuesday, September 23..............Researching Methodist Topics
Monday, September 29...............Researching Methodist Topics
Tuesday, September 30..............Start at personal library with LibraryThing
October’s workshops will include sessions on Copyright and more. If you have suggestions for other topics, send us an email or visit our blog. We’d love to hear from you.

5. Library Service Center at Duke University
In order to create shelf space for our growing collection the library is sending many journal and serial titles before 1990 to off-site (LSC) shelving. These pre-1990 issues can be retrieved using the online catalog and clicking the “Get This Title” button and “Request” link on each record. We are working our way through the BX stacks now, and hope to finish with the entire collection by the end of the academic year.

6. The library was converted? Yes, to Library of Congress
Over the past year, the Divinity School Library along with other Duke Libraries have managed a transition from Dewey (call numbers such as 261.7) to LC Classification (call numbers such as BX 4827). Most of the books at LSC (our off-site storage facility) remain in Dewey in addition to a few sets of church conference proceedings. Books that appear in the catalog with Dewey numbers (that are not otherwise checked out or at LSC) are likely "missing" as this project has also provided a complete inventory. We will be working our way through these titles and ordering replacements as needed but in the meantime, feel free to use Interlibrary Loan.

7. Coming in October: Theological Libraries Month
October 2008 marks the third year the library will celebrate Theological Libraries Month. Established by the American Theological Library Association, Theological Libraries Month highlights the vital role libraries play in theological education. Its purpose is to call attention to the importance and value of theological libraries and library services to faculty, administrators, staff, and students.

On September 29th at 4pm in Westbrook 0016, Duke Divinity Library will kick off Theological Libraries Month with the screening of the award winning film, The Monastery: Mr.Vig and the Nun. Admission is free; the event is open to the public. The library presents the film in conjunction with the Full Frame Archive at Duke University. We hope to see you there!

The month’s other events will include:

• Our annual Ten Reasons Why contest beginning, Oct. 15
• The Service of the Word in Goodson Chapel will be led by the library staff, October 28th. Library director Roger Loyd will be preaching.
• A month-long celebration of the Duke Divinity Library “Student Worker Hall of Fame” will be posted on our website. Current members are D. Moody Smith, Marie Fortune, and Jerry Campbell.
• Raleigh artist, Lee Gruber Clark, will participate in the celebration by introducing her new series of paintings called,”The Book of Hours and the Tree of Life.” A reception and discussion of her work on October 29th will close the month-long activities. (Her exhibit will be available for viewing beginning September 15.)

We invite you to join us in celebrating the work of theological librarians.

8. Towards a greener Divinity School Library
From 2000-2006, the amount of printing in the library had increased annually averaging nearly 20-25% a year. During 2007 printing in the library actually dropped 10% to just over a million pages. We attribute the drop to a greater awareness of copyright concerns, the "soft quota" implemented by OIT and the increased use of duplex (double-sided) printing. To help us all reduce the environmental impact of printing, the library has begun using recycled paper and we ask for your continued help in reducing the amount of unnecessary printing.

9. Avoid library fines
You will be notified via your Duke email address if a library book is recalled from you. "Recall" means that someone else wants the book and you have seven days from the date it was requested to return the book. You will be fined $3.00 for every day it is late and the new due date is not negotiable. Either check your Duke email daily ("Duke Libraries Recall Notice" is the subject line) or point the address to the email you check regularly. Please be sure the notices (from divcirc@duke.edu) don't go to your spam file.We urge you not to check out books for others. If they don’t return them on time (especially if they are recalled), you will be stuck with the bill.

10. York Reading Room
York Reading Room continues to be a popular, quiet spot to read or to have small group meetings during library hours. The room is also used for other events (lectures, receptions, etc.) by the Divinity School and by the Religion Department; library director Roger Loyd is responsible for assigning the room’s uses. This year, we are pleased to provide the York Room for use in Muslim jummah worship services on Fridays from noon until 2 pm, led by Duke’s new Muslim chaplain, Abdullah T. Antepli. For events scheduled in the York Room, the library will post signs outside the entry door; students will need to find alternative reading spots during those times.