Save the Date! February Zotero Workshops

Library workshops on Zotero will take place on Wednesday, February 19th from noon to 1pm, as well as Friday, February 28th from noon to 1pm - Room 504. Zotero is a citation and bibliographic management system that allows you to save, edit and manage citations, as well as take notes for your research. The workshop will cover the basics of installing the Zotero for Firefox for your Firefox browser, how to add items to your Zotero library, and how to insert citations and bibliographies into your papers using Zotero. You are welcome to bring your lunch, and your laptop, if you wish; please install the Firefox browser on your laptop before attending the workshop.

Library Adds Twentieth-Century Religious Thought to Online Collections

Twentieth Century Religious Thought is a multivolume, cross-searchable online collection of works related to key worldwide religious thinkers, from the early 1900s until the turn of the 21st century. It includes a significant collection of the works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and a selection of the papers of Reinhold Niebuhr. It also includes a selection of English-language editions of key authors such as Hans Urs von Baltasar, Rudolf Bultmann, James Cone, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Adolf von Harnack, Henri de Lubac, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Dorothee Sölle, and Ernst Troeltsch.

Library J-Term Hours

The hours for J-Term are as follows:

January 4-5: Closed

January 6-February 3, 2014
Monday-Thursday: 8:30am-7pm
Friday: 8:30am-4:30pm
Saturday: 11am-2pm
Sunday: Closed
January 20: Closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day

February 3-7 2014
Monday-Friday: 9am-4pm
February 8-9: Closed

Library Christmas Break Hours

The library will be observing semester break hours during the week, and will be closed on the weekends. The library hours over the break are as follows:

December 10-13: 9am to 4pm
December 14-15: Closed
December 16-20: 9am to 4pm
December 21-22: Closed
December 23: 9am to 4pm
December 24, 2013 - January 1, 2014: Closed
January 2-3: 9am to 4pm

Library Closed for Thanksgiving

The library will be closed for Thanksgiving:

Thursday - Saturday
November 28 - November 30

Library hours for Sunday, December 1:
1pm-9pm

Library Sponsored Movie Night Tuesday, October 29th

All are invited to attend the library’s film screening on Tuesday, October 29th at 7p.m in Room 504. The Colors of the Mountain is in Spanish with English subtitles - this film was the winner of the New Directors Award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. A brief discussion time will follow.

Database Trials for TryIt Illinois Ongoing for October and November

The TryIt Illinois database trials are ongoing until the end of November. Many databases with full text and streaming video are available for searching, and can be accessed at the TryIt Illinois website. Please stop by or contact the library for login information.