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

7/13/07 -- 2 New Online Resources

The Library is pleased to announce the availability of two new online resources:

The Virtual Reference Library -- Gale's Virtual Reference Library provides online access to 11 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 Religion (2005)
    Encyclopedia of Science and Religion (2003)
    Encyclopedia of World Cultures (1996)
    Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America (2000)
    New Catholic Encyclopedia (2003)

You can search across all 11 reference sets at once, or you can narrow your search to individual titles. To connect from off campus, contact the library (630-620-2104 or library@seminary.edu) for the password.

SAGE Journals Online -- A full-text backfile for 298 journals

SAGE Journals Online allows you to search the contents of over 460 journals published by SAGE. For 298 of those journals, the full text articles are available online through 1998 (the "backfile"). At the present, you have to be using a computer on campus to be able to access the full text articles. Northern students, employees, or faculty members can contact the library (630-620-2104 or library@seminary.edu) to request a copy of an article from the backfile. See http://www.seminary.edu/BGL/sage.htm for more information about SAGE Journals Online.

7/10/06 -- Welcome to 6 New I-Share Libraries

The CARLI consortium has added six new libraries to the I-Share system, bringing the total number of I-Share libraries to 71. The six new libraries are:

Carl Sandburg College, Galesburg

Illinois Eastern Community Colleges, with four locations: Frontier Community College, Fairfield; Wabash Valley College, Mt. Carmel; Olney Central College, Olney; and Lincoln Trail College, Robinson

Knox College, Galesburg

Monmouth College, Monmouth

Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing, Peoria

Trinity International University, Deerfield

Note that now that Trinity International University is part of the I-Share system, Northern Seminary students, faculty, and staff will no longer need to make use of an ACTS card to borrow materials from Trinity's library. Just like any of the other 70 I-Share libraries, your Northern Seminary library card is all you need to borrow books from one of these libraries.

For more information, you can view the CARLI news posting at http://www.carli.illinois.edu/news/52/65.html.