Library News

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.

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)