7/3/08 -- Library Closed On July 4

The Library (along with the rest of the campus offices) will be closing early at 3pm on Thursday, July 3.

The Library will be closed on Friday, July 4 for Independence Day.

The Library is also closed Saturday-Sunday, July 5-6. We will reopen at 8:30am on Monday, July 7. Have a wonderful holiday!

7/2/08 -- New Courier Service for All ACTS Libraries

As of July 1, all 10 ACTS libraries are now part of the statewide ILDS courier service. ILDS provides five-days-a-week service between all participating libraries with a 24-hour delivery time from when it picks up a shipment of books to when it drops them off at the destination library. By participating in ILDS, the ACTS libraries are improving their commitment "to collaborative collection development and to cooperative organization of and access to resources for theological education."

5/29/08 -- Library Closed Commencement Weekend

This is a reminder that the Library will be closed Saturday and Sunday, May 31 and June 1, for Commencement.

Also note that the library will have reduced hours for the week of June 2:

Monday - Friday -- 9am - 8pm
Saturday, June 7 -- CLOSED
Sunday, June 8 -- 6pm - 10pm

5/19/08 -- Library Open on Memorial Day

The Library will be open on Monday, May 26 from 9am - 5pm.

5/19/08 -- Late Nights in the Library

As we get ready for finals and then Commencement, the Library will once again have extended hours during the week of May 19:

Mon - Thurs (5/19 - 5/22) -- 8:30am - 12am
Friday (5/23) -- 8:30am - 10pm
Saturday (5/24) -- 9am - 10pm
Sunday (5/25) -- 6pm - 10pm

Starting at 6pm each evening, beverages and study snacks will be served. Come in to study or just stop by and pick up something during a class break. Everyone is welcome!

4/16/08 -- 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.

4/16/08 -- WorldCat Milestone Reached

The world's largest database of library records continues to grow at an ever increasing rate. OCLC's WorldCat had:

1 million records in September 1974;
10 million records in October 1983;
25 million records in December 1991;
50 million records in June 2002;
75 million records in November 2006;
100 million records in April 2008.

From OCLC Abstracts:

On April 1, a record for the 1950s publication from the U.S. Fisheries Laboratory, Miscellaneous Contributions, marked the 100 millionth bibliographic record entered into WorldCat. The record was part of a retrospective conversion project for the University of Washington Libraries.

In the past, WorldCat millionth bibliographic records were easily recognized by an OCLC record number that ended in zeros. Over the past year, additional types of records have been added to WorldCat, including article-level citations available in WorldCat.org and Institution Records reflecting an institution’s edited version of a bibliographic record. Both of these types of records are assigned OCLC numbers from the same numbering sequence applied to master bibliographic records. As a result, OCLC has developed a process that continuously monitors the total number of master bibliographic records in WorldCat. This process was used to determine which master bibliographic record was the 100 millionth.

The WorldCat database continues to grow at an extraordinary rate. Libraries added 18.7 million records to WorldCat in 2007 compared with 9.3 million in 2006 and 4.7 million in 2005.

Learn more about WorldCat.