Library News

Earlier this month, as part of of the eBethArké project (1999– ), Greg Murray, Director of Digital Initiatives at Princeton Theological Seminary Library, trained staff at Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Insititute on using the Internet Archive's table top scribe system to digitize out-of-copyright books and manuscripts for inclusion in the Theological Commons and Archive.org.

Library hours from Sunday, July 1 through Sunday, August 26, 2018 will be Monday-Friday 8am-6pm, Saturday 9am-6pm, Sunday CLOSED. The Seminary, including the Library, will also be closed Wednesday, July 4 (Independence Day) and Monday, September 3 (Labor Day).

This PC(USA) Heritage Sunday, May 20, 2018, the Presbyterian Historical Society will be celebrating Reverend Fred Rogers (1928-2003).

"As Stimson wrote, Fred Rogers 'never served in a traditional role of pastor, but through television [brought] his simple message of affirmation and acceptance to a ‘congregation’ of millions.'" (via the Presbyterian Historical Society, https://www.history.pcusa.org/heritage-sunday-2018)

Books from the Princeton Theological Seminary Library collection

• Peaceful neighbor : discovering the countercultural Mister Rogers / Michael G. Long
• The simple faith of Mister Rogers : spiritual insights from the world's most beloved neighbor / Amy Hollingsworth
• Explore beyond the library with Summon Search: https://ptsem.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/search?ho=t&l=en&q=%22mister%20rogers%22

Elsewhere in town

The Princeton Garden Theater will be screening the new documentary film Won’t You Be My Neighbor? later this year.

For a recent piece in the Christian Century, soon-to-be Dean and Vice President of Academic Affairs Prof. Jacq Lapsley has selected six new books, all of which can be found here on our shelves:

1. The great shift: Encountering God in Biblical times / James L. Kugel
2. Telling the Old Testament story : God's mission and God's people / Brad E. Kelle
3. Claiming her dignity : female resistance in the Old Testament / L. Juliana M. Claassens
4. Womanist Midrash : a reintroduction to the women of the Torah and the throne / Wilda C. Gafney
5. The house of the mother : the social roles of maternal kin in Biblical Hebrew narrative and poetry / Cynthia R. Chapman
6. Ancient prophecy : near eastern, biblical, and Greek perspectives* / Martti Nissinen

*Also available as an e-book.

From Tuesday, May 8-June 30, 2018, the Princeton Theological Seminary Library will be open on an early-summer schedule. On Monday, May 28, 2018, Princeton Theological Seminary - including the Library - will be closed for Memorial Day.

The Princeton Theological Seminary Library is pleased to announce the addition of ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global: The Humanities and Social Sciences Collection and several Credo Reference e-books to the collection.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global: The Humanities and Social Sciences Collection includes millions of searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.

Credo Reference e-books:

• Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible
• Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics
• Encyclopedia of Protestantism
• IVP Bible Dictionary Series: Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels
• IVP Bible Dictionary Series: Dictionary of New Testament Background
• IVP Bible Dictionary Series: Dictionary of Paul and His Letters
• IVP Bible Dictionary Series: Dictionary of the Later New Testament and Its Development
• IVP Bible Dictionary Series: Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books
• IVP Bible Dictionary Series: Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch
• IVP Bible Dictionary Series: Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets
• IVP Bible Dictionary Series: Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry, Writings

• Library accounts are renewed yearly.
• Please stop by the Circulation Desk to update your library card before leaving for the summer.
• Renewing your record will allow you to renew books online if you are not on campus over the summer.

You will be receiving an email regarding your library account sometime in early May. Stay tuned.

All borrowed library material, regardless of the stamped due date, must be returned and all library records must be cleared by noon on Tuesday, May 8.

Even though your books may be stamped with a different date, the earlier you return them, the easier it will be for us to clear your records.

A list of students with outstanding fines and/or fees for lost books will be sent to the Bursar’s Office at noon on Thursday, May 10.

Please bear in mind that the Business Office requires a clean slate at Firestone Library as well.

To assist you in identifying those materials which you have charged out and any fines that must be paid, we suggest that you check your library record via the OPAC (Library Catalog) as soon as possible.

You may also ask for a printout of charged items at the Service Desk.

If you have any questions or concerns, please send your emails to:

While trial access to Government, Politics and Law (HeinOnline) continues, the Library has decided to purchase access to The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament Online (Brill).

Soon-to-be Dean and Vice President of Academic Affairs Prof. Jacq Lapsley's newest book, Bible and ethics in the Christian life : a new conversation, is now available at the library.

A copy has been placed in the New Faculty Books display.

Library hours will be extended for the Seminary community during reading week and final exams. Late night hours will be swipe-card access only.