Library News

Christine (Chris) Schwartz, our Metadata Librarian and XML Database Administrator, recently co-authored a new monograph (book) with Timothy W. Cole and Myung-Ja (MJ) K. Han for ALA Editions: Coding with XML for Efficiencies in Cataloging and Metadata: Practical Applications of XSD, XSLT, and XQuery (an ALCTS Monograph). ALCTS stands for Association for Library Collections & Technical Services. Congratulations, Chris!

As the Institute for Youth Ministry prepares for the Princeton Forum on Youth Ministry later this month, we've put a selection of youth ministry titles on display near the new books shelves.

Come browse and borrow!

Please note these upcoming exceptions to regular library hours:

• Thursday, March 29 8am-6pm (early closing for Holy Thursday)
• Friday, March 30 CLOSED (Good Friday)
• Sunday, April 1 CLOSED (Easter Sunday)

If you haven't browsed our suggested reading list for Holy Week and Easter recently, please follow the link below. Blessings to you in this season!

Trial runs until April 22, 2018. The dictionary contains the complete vocabulary of the Hebrew Bible, extended with variants from the Oriental and Samaritan textual traditions, the Ben Sira fragments, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Recommended reading, databases, reference titles, subject headings and links; plus Princeton Seminary theses, recently published faculty books and more for Women's History Month 2018 — all in one guide.

Prof. George Hunsinger’s newest edited volume, Karl Barth : post-Holocaust theologian : a systematic exploration of controversial notion, has been added to the collection. It contains articles by PTS alumnus Derek Alan Woodard-Lehman among others.

A copy will be placed in the New Faculty Books display near the entrance to the library when it arrives.

Access 110 new e-books in these two recently purchased collections*

This collection is comprised of 54 titles, including guides to The Trinity, works from the Ecclesiological Investigations series, and several titles on systematic theology. Other works include John Calvin's Ecclesiology, The Identity of Anglicanism, and Salvation in Celluloid: Theology, Imagination and Film.

This collection includes 66 theological monographs from the rich backlist of the Bloomsbury T&T Clark imprint, grouped around the theme of Christology, or the focus on the nature and person of Jesus Christ as recorded in the canonical Gospels and the epistles of the New Testament. The collection includes works by Thomas F. Torrance, monographs on the theology of Karl Barth, and key introductory texts such as J.L. Houlden's Jesus: The Complete Guide and Alan J. Spence's Christology: A Guide for the Perplexed.

*Princeton Theological Seminary alumni who have requested alumni database access through the Help Desk may access these databases from the Welcome, PTS Alumni! page.

Princeton Theological Seminary students are sharing some of their families' stories with photos and artifacts during Black History Month. (Sponsored by the Association of Black Seminarians)

George Hunsinger’s newest edited volume, Karl Barth, the Jews, and Judaism, has been added to the collection. It contains articles by Victoria J. Barnett and Ellen Charry, among others.

A copy will be placed in the New Faculty Books display near the entrance to the library when it arrives.

Lenten devotionals from Princeton Theological Seminary and other selected reading for the season.

Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, which in 2018 falls on February 14. The Princeton Theological Seminary Library will be closed on Friday, March 30, 2018 (Good Friday) and Sunday, April 1, 2018 (Easter).