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Drew Faculty Seminar 2012-13 The First of Four Events on the Theme Scholarly Openings Monday, September 10, 2012 4 p.m. Refreshments 4:30 p.m. Guest Speaker and Conversation Founders Room, Mead Hall Topic: Open Access: Maximizing the Impact of Research and Scholarship Guest Speaker Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) Heather [...]
Welcome back! While you were gone, we added a few things: Debit printing is here! Put money on your Drew Debit (bookstore) account, and print – fast, simple and private! (The option to bill your Library account is now history.) Summon/Drew Library ( http://www.drew.edu/library/research ), which searches across material available in most of Drew’s databases [...]
Summon: ’Drive-thru searching. No waiting.’* New at the Library! Not sure where to start looking for information? Tired of having to look in multiple databases in order to find relevant articles? Frustrated with Google Scholar’s links to nowhere? Drew Library users now have a powerful new tool for finding reliable information. With a user-friendly, Google-like [...]
Welcome back to campus, faculty and graduate students! Interlibrary Loan (ILL) has 2 new capabilities to better assist you with your classes and research. 1. Faculty members who have Research Assistants may ask the ILL Department to set up an RA account for them in ILLiad (Drew’s interlibrary loan system). This will enable RA’s to [...]
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 [...]
Policies for the Media Library for Fall 2012 have been updated.
John Cunningham, popular historian and alumnus of the College of Liberal Arts class of 1938, passed away on June 7, 2012. In memory of his distinguished career– including authoring the definitive history of Drew University– the library is hosting a small exhibit of his works in the entrance to the main library. On campus, Cunningham [...]
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 [...]
The staff of the Methodist Library at Drew University are in the process of digitizing nearly 20,000 images from the Methodist Library Image Collection. The images include photographs and sketches of several thousand people with historic connections to Methodism around the world. The images are available for viewing on Flickr or browse them here: For [...]
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. [...]