11/16/07 -- Thanksgiving Break Hours

The week of November 19 is a break week at Northern Seminary and the library will have reduced hours:

    Mon - Tues (11/19 - 11/20)      9am - 8pm
    Weds (11/21)                                 9am - 5pm
    Thurs - Sun (11/22 - 11/25)     CLOSED

After the Thanksgiving weekend, the library will reopen at 8:30am Monday morning, 11/26. You can view the full library calendar here.

11/6/07 -- New Book Lists Updated

You can view the list of new book titles at Brimson Grow Library here.

If you would like to receive the list of new book titles by email, you can subscribe to the library email news.

10/31/07 -- Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online

The Encyclopedia of Philosophy is the most recent addition to our Virtual Reference Library. This brings our collection up to a total of 12 available online reference sets:

     Contemporary American Religion (1999)
     Dictionary of American History (2003)
     Encyclopaedia Judaica (2007)
     Encyclopedia of American Religions (2003)
     Encyclopedia of Education (2003)
     Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World (2004)
     Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2006)
     Encyclopedia of Religion (2005)
     Encyclopedia of Science and Religion (2003)
     Encyclopedia of World Cultures (1996)
     Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America (2000)
     New Catholic Encyclopedia (2003)

If you are connecting from off campus, a password is necessary to connect. If you are a Northern Seminary student, staff member, or faculty member, you may call the library at (630)620-2104 to request the password.

10/4/07 -- New Email Addresses

All Northern Seminary students should have received notice by now of their new @seminary.edu email addresses. Northern Seminary is now using these new email addresses for all official communication with students. This means that Brimson Grow Library will also be sending all overdue notices, renewal reminders, and other library information to each student's @seminary.edu email address. If you do not know how to access your new Northern Seminary email address please contact the I.T. department for more information.

10/4/07 -- New Book Lists Updated

You can view the list of new book titles at Brimson Grow Library here.

If you would like to receive the list of new book titles by email, you can subscribe to the library email news.

9/24/07 -- Password Access to New Databases

Over the summer, we added two new databases to the library's online resources:

SAGE Journals Online and
Thomson/Gale's Virtual Reference Library.

Access to both of these databases from off campus requires a password. If you do not have the password for these databases, please contact the library at (630)620-2104 or library@seminary.edu to request your password.

More information about these databases is available at http://www.seminary.edu/BGL/detailed.htm -- scroll down to the bottom section of the page.

9/18/07 -- Fall library hours

During the week of September 17, the library will be open until 8pm for anyone wanting to get a head start on fall reading:

Mon, 9/17 - Thurs, 9/20    9am - 8pm
Fri, 9/21 - Sat, 9/22         9am - 5pm
Sun, 9/23                            CLOSED

With the start of classes on Monday, 9/24, the library will resume regular school session hours:

Mon - Thurs     8:30am - 11pm
Fridays              8:30am - 10pm
Saturdays         9am - 5pm
Sundays            CLOSED