You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life. – Ray Bradbury Summon that Source! Our new service searches nearly everything and then provides a variety of faceted limiters to let you pinpoint exactly the information [...]

July 2012   Research in Ministry Has someone already written my DMin thesis?  Check this index to DMin theses, produced by the American Theological Library Association. http://rim.atla.com/star/rimonline_login.htm Dissertations and Theses And what about all the Drew DMin dissertations?  Many of them are fulltext online in this database.  Limit your search by Drew=School, D.Min.=Degree, to find [...]

Poetry, the language of the gods” (Samuel Rogers, c. 1820) Poets.org I have to teach a class on the villanelle – what are good examples?  What is a villanelle, anyway?  For more information on poetry and poets, as well as interviews with some living poets, check this free website from the Academy of American Poets. [...]

For those struggling with Writers’ Block, Writers’ Cramp, and Writer’s Malaise: The Elements of Style, by Strunk and White Not merely a guide to punctuation for the bleary-eyed late night writer, but also a literate and clear reminder of the elements of composition.  A short classic originally written by Strunk in 1918 and recast by [...]

Oxford Dictionary of Quotations When Oscar Wilde remarked wistfully, “I wish I’d said that,” James Whistler replied, “You will, Oscar, you will.” Try quotation books to see What Oscar Said: PN6080 .O95 or Online:  http://www.drew.edu/library/er/oxford-dictionary-of-quotations Oscar Wilde Encyclopedia Summarizing the content and reception of most of Wilde’s works, from poetry to newspaper articles, this volume [...]

Inspired by the 2012 Leadership conference… Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations… Look under “Leadership” here to see what quotations the Library of Congress can supply on the subject: Reference PN6081 .R435 or http://ezproxy.drew.edu/login?url=http://www.credoreference.com/vol/84 New Dictionary of the History of Ideas Somehow one suspects that this reference has somewhat sanitized Harry Truman’s definition of leadership: [...]

Here’s some sources to learn more about Muslims & Islam: Muslim Life in America Trying to explain or understand what it’s like to be Muslim in America? The U.S. Department of State offers this magazine-like profile of everyday Muslims. http://infousa.state.gov/education/overview/muslimlife/homepage.htm Ethnic NewsWatch For non-mainstream news coverage of Islam, try this full text news source. http://www.drew.edu/library/er/ethnic-newswatch [...]

Interest piqued by the “Future of Civil War History” conference? Follow up:   Civil War: a Newspaper Perspective What was the news from the front—and the home front—on both sides of the War Between the States? Find full text of selected articles from Northern and Southern American newspapers, Nov. 1860-April 1865. Find on Drew Library [...]

If the topic of the first Drew Faculty Seminar piqued your interest in these topics, Then the Drew Library reference collection, physical and virtual, is the place to turn to find out more. Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience As soon as you open this collection of two dozen thoughtful essays, you will wish you [...]

Drew Magazine’s interactive “Four Seasons at Drew” beautifully introduces Forest plants and animals: http://www.drewmagazine.com/2011/12/four-seasons-at-drew/. Our reference sources will tell you even more. Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior Squirrels, chipmunks and….coyotes? Oh my! Although the coyote was probably just passing through, they’ve all been seen on campus and they all are known to cache food. What is [...]