Cake and Coffee for Theological Libraries Month

Everyone is invited to attend a reception with cake and coffee on Wednesday October 27th from 4pm-5:30 pm. For those who are interested, there will also be time to view the library’s recent book digitization project of items related to Catholicism in Illinois and ask questions.

October is Theological Libraries Month!

In celebration of Theological Libraries Month, we will be highlighting unique resources from the library's collection throughout October. Check out the library's display of items from our Franciscana collection in the library's book display case. A reception for Theological Libraries Month with refreshments will also take place later this month. More information will be posted here soon!

New Feature from Ebsco - Listen to Full Text Articles

You can now listen to a small selection of full text articles from ATLA, CPLI and other Ebsco databases. In order to listen to an article, there must be an HTML full text version of the article; PDF full text articles do not have the listen feature. To use the listen feature, click on the title of the article, and then click on the "Listen" icon on the lower right. This book review on "Pope Innocent III and His World" demonstrates this new feature. You may want to try modifying the listening speed to your personal preference.

Update on Zotero and Ebsco

Zotero has been updated as of September 12, in order to correctly save article citations from Ebsco. Please note, however, that the Ebsco permalinks are not being saved to Zotero at this time. Visit Zotero's translator issues page for more updates.

Attention Zotero Users!

Since Ebsco has made changes recently to its interface, Zotero users will have noticed that the "Save to Zotero" button either no longer appears, or is not functioning. Zotero is working on fixing this problem as of August 9th. Please visit Zotero's known problems page for more information; the library will post a notice on our blog when we hear that the problem has been fixed.

CTU Library's Online Catalog Update

To make the most of the library's online catalog, CTU users should create an account in the VuFind catalog. This account will allow you to place interlibrary loan requests, view your checked out items and renew them, email catalog records, and keep a list of favorites in your account. You can create this account at the login page by filling in the requested information, choosing an easy to remember user name and password, and filling in your library barcode information on the account creation page.

Changes to Ebsco Interface

Since the recent upgrade in the EbscoHost interface for ALTA, CPLI, etc, there are some display issues if you are using Internet Explorer 7 or earlier versions as your browser. In order to view all the screen features, we recommend all users update to IE 8, or use Firefox. Thank you.