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The library has a 30 day trial for Oxford Handbooks Online. The trial includes handbooks in the areas of political science, philosophy, religion and business management. The trial ends January 9th.

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The library will be open regular hours, 8am to 9pm, on December 21st. Break hours, 9am to 4pm, will be in effect for December 22nd and 23rd. The library will be closed December 24th to January 3rd.

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All are invited to attend the library’s after hours movie night on Friday, December 4th at 7p.m. The film will be Jellyfish, winner of the Camera D'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Jellyfish tells the story of three very different Tel Aviv women whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. A brief discussion time will follow the movie.

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JSTOR has added several new titles to the library's Ireland Collection.

Béaloideas
Publisher: An Cumann Le Béaloideas Éireann/The Folklore of Ireland Society

The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies
Publisher: Canadian Association of Irish Studies

Classics Ireland
Publisher: Classical Association of Ireland

Clogher Record
Publisher: Clogher Historical Society

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The library’s next film for after hours movie night is Jellyfish. The date for movie night is Friday, December 4th at 7p.m. All are invited to view the film and join a brief discussion afterwards.

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BibleWorks is offering a beginning workshop at LSTC on Friday, December 4th from 9a.m. to noon, and an intermediate workshop from 1:30p.m. to 4:30p.m. Registration is available at http://store.bibleworks.com/workshops.html, and directions to the workshop are available at http://www.bibleworks.com/training/details/20091204-LSTC-A.html. The cost for the workshop is $30.

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The library would like additional feedback on it's ATLA video tutorial. The flash drive giveaway is ongoing for the first week of November, and CTU students who watch the entire tutorial and complete the survey at the end can still receive a free flash drive. The video includes audio, so speakers or headphones are needed, and you will need to fill in your contact information at the end of the survey to receive a flash drive.

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A trial to American History in Video is available through November 15th. Visit the library's trial database page to see this and other trials that are currently available.

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Everyone is invited to the library's first after hours movie night! The film will be the Island, a story of an unusual monk at a Russian monastery. To view the trailer, click here.

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There is still time to win a free flash drive during Theological Libraries Month! The first twenty CTU students who watch the library's ATLA video tutorial during the month of October will win a flash drive. You must be currently registered at CTU, and there is a limit of one flash drive per person. Click here to begin the tutorial.

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The Try-It Illinois database trial is available for the months of October and November. After you login to the Try-It site, you will be able to see login information for multiple databases. To obtain the trial password, check the sign posted near the library entrance, or contact the library.

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As part of Theological Libraries Month, the library will be giving away flash drives in conjunction with a survey to obtain feedback about our ATLA tutorial. The first twenty students who complete the online survey at the end of the tutorial will receive a flash drive. You must be currently registered at CTU, and there is a limit of one flash drive per person. To start the tutorial, please visit the library’s tutorial page.

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October is Theological Libraries Month! This October the library will kick off a film discussion group on Friday October 23rd at 7p.m. Movies will be selected from FilmMovement.com, which distributes films from film festivals from around the world.The film up for discussion will be The Island, winner of 5 Nika Awards (Czech Oscars) including best film. A brief discussion time will follow.

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You can personalize Google Scholar to make it easier to find resources that are available to you through CTU's library. If you are off campus, follow Google's directions for setting your preferences so that links to CTU resources will appear in your Google Scholar search results. These links will appear automatically if you are using Google Scholar while on campus.

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Just a few reminders as the new semester begins. New students can register their ID cards with the library at the Welcome Week desk Sept. 8-10, or in the library. We would also like to remind new and returning students that the library copier can be used as a scanner as well, for free!

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CTU can now provide access to the ATLAS collection of more than one hundred forty religion and theology journals to our alumni. Access to this online resource will allow alumni to use these core theology journals to support their research, wherever they may be serving in ministry. A list of journal titles included can be found at http://www.atla.com/products/titles/titles_atlas.html.

To login, go to ATLAS for Alum through Ebsco and enter the User ID and password. If you have not received the User ID and password, please contact Lisa Gonzalez.

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The library has added two new databases. MasterFILE Premier is a general interest database that includes reference materials and primary documents, and would be useful for researching current events. Consumer Health Complete is a full text database on health-related topics. Both of these databases are from Ebsco.

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The Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation is currently available on a trial basis. This resource includes primary texts from the 16th and 17th centuries in Latin, English, French, Italian, Spanish and German. Both a fully searchable text file as well as scans of the original documents are part of this database. To access this trial, click here.

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The library has added JSTOR's 19th Century British Pamphlets collection to its collection of online resources. These pamphlets will provide access to primary sources from UK research libraries that have not been available online before. To access this collection, click here. The pamphlet collection can also be searched as part of library's entire JSTOR collection.

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JSTOR has recently added several titles to the library's collection of online journals. Click on the titles below to view these new journals.

The Belfast Monthly Magazine

The Catholic Layman

The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy

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You can add a bookmarklet to your web browser to make it easy to see if the library owns a book before you purchase it on Amazon. To install the bookmarklet, go to the website http://xisbn.worldcat.org/liblook2/index.htm and search for Catholic Theological Union. After the search is complete, drag the bookmarklet from your results to your browser's toolbar.If you use Firefox, you will need the Bookmarks Toolbar checked under View. To try out the bookmarklet, click on it the next time you are in Amazon looking at the web page for a particular book.

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The library has added the Chicago Manual of Style Online to assist students with constructing proper citations for assignments. You can browse the manual or search the contents, and a Quick Guide is provided to give examples of citations for the most common types of materials. The manual can be accessed at http://ezproxy.ctu.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html.

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The library provides many national and local newspapers online through Ebsco’s Newspaper Source. Go to http://ezproxy.ctu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?profile=ehost to see descriptions of all of the library’s databases, and scroll down to Newspaper Source. Click on the database to search for news, or click on the title list to see which newspapers are included in this database.

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Oxford Reference Online Premium has recently been updated with over 13,000 new entries. Some of the updates include revisions to the Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists and the Dictionary of Psychology, as well as the addition of new works, such as the Dictionary of Hinduism. Check out all of the library’s databases at http://www.ctu.lib.il.us/find-articles-0.

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In honor of Illinois Library Day, everyone is invited to stop by the library for some homemade cookies on Thursday, April 23rd.

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The library has added two new JSTOR collections of journals. JSTOR's Arts & Sciences V will eventually contain 120 journals, and JSTOR's Ireland collection will contain 70 journal titles by the end of 2009. To view the list of available JSTOR collections at CTU, click here.

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The library will be hosting a webinar about the eHRAF World Cultures database on Monday, March 30th at 1:30pm in room 504, and donuts will be served. Topics will include types of materials included in the database, the subject headings and organizational principles that are applied to the cultural materials, and how to use the searching and browsing functions of the database. The webinar will be conducted by Christiane Cunnar from eHRAF, and will be conducted by conference call and by a demonstration projected from the computer in the room. This webinar would be of interest to anyone who is interested in making the most of the ethnographic materials in eHRAF.

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Everyone is invited to a discussion of a spiritual classic, Spiritual Friendship, by Aelred of Rievaulx, on Tuesday, April 21st. The book discussion will take place over the lunch hour from noon-1p.m., so bring your lunch if you would like. Contact Melody at mmcmahon@ctu.edu if you plan to attend.

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The library has two more databases you may want to check out. Oxford Biblical Studies Online is available on a trial basis through April 18th. OBSO includes several Bible translations, commentaries and reference works. This database is available at http://www.ctu.lib.il.us/trialdatabases. The library has also added Camio, a collection of art museum images, to its collection of online resources. Images in the collection are licensed for educational use. To view the collection, go to the library’s web page for online images at http://www.ctu.lib.il.us/find-online-images.

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The library is testing a federated search engine that will allow you to search the content of all of our electronic books at the same time. This search is available at this link: http://wfxsearch.webfeat.org/wfsearch/search?cid=11091. The search is also available on the library's toolbar, which can be downloaded at the library's home page at http://www.ctu.lib.il.us/.

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The library has a new database available on trial until June 30th. JSTOR's 19th Century British Pamphlets includes over 20,000 pamphlets digitized by major British libraries. The trial is available as part of JSTOR, or you can go to the trial database link on the library web page at http://www.ctu.lib.il.us/find-articles-0.

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The library's next walk-in workshop will be Friday, February 27th, from 10-11am in Room 304. This workshop will give an overview of areas in the health sciences that have interdisciplinary applications, including psychology and public health, and which are of interest to the CTU community. We will highlight the library’s print and online resources in the areas of the health sciences, discuss alternatives to major resources in these areas that are not owned by our library, and options for accessing other resources.

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The library has added a web page for ongoing trial databases. New trials include the ATLA Historical Monographs Collection and the Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. For the most part, trial databases are available on campus only. Please see the library’s web page at http://www.ctu.lib.il.us/find-articles-0 to access the trials.

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The library has added the Australasian Religion Index to its collection of online resources. This index covers over 80 journals published in Australia and New Zealand, and covers religious studies, theology, history and sociology. Please see the library’s web page at http://www.ctu.lib.il.us/find-articles-0 to access this database either from on or off campus.

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The library has updated its toolbar to include a quick link CTU's Amazon portal. If you would like to download the toolbar, with quick links to library resources and other areas of CTU's web site, please visit the library's home page at http://www.ctu.lib.il.us.

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The library will be conducting two walk-in workshops in February. The new library resources workshop will give a brief overview of some of the resources the library has added over the past year, such as JSTOR, online encyclopedias, eHRAF World Cultures, SFX, and more. The introduction to library resources for health sciences workshop will give an overview of areas in the health sciences that have interdisciplinary applications, including psychology and public health, and which are of interest to the CTU community. Walk-ins are welcome, but we invite you to sign up at the library front desk so that we will know how many people to expect.

New Library Resources Workshop
Tuesday, February 17th, 10am-11am in Room 504

Introduction to Library Resources for Health Sciences
Friday, February 27th, 10am-11am in Room 304

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The library is testing a new service, EZProxy, which will enable CTU students, faculty and staff to login to any library database from off campus. CTU library patrons can test this service with the JSTOR archive of journals. Also available for testing is the Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology. For the purpose of testing, both on and off campus users will be asked to login with their library card. For more information, or if you have trouble logging into the above resources, please contact Lisa at lgonzalez@ctu.edu.

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The library has set up a trial for Oxford Islamic Studies Online for the spring semester. You can access this trial from on campus at http://www.ctu.lib.il.us/find-books-and-other-materials by clicking on Oxford Islamic Studies Online.

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You can access Gale's Black History Month Collection until January 21st. This free trial is only available on campus. Check out Biography Resource Center: African Americans at
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/bhm?id=access&db=AFAM
You can also try the Black History Month E-book collection at
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/bhm?id=access&db=GVRL.bhmc