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Archive for August, 2009

Fall Library Hours Begin on Sept. 1

Beginning September 1, the library is open from 7:30 AM – 9 PM Monday-Thursday and 7:30 AM – 5 PM Friday.

Reference assistance is available from 9 AM – 9 PM Monday-Thursday and from 9 AM – 5 PM Friday.

Weekend hours will begin on September 12.  The library is open 10 AM – 5 PM Saturday and 2 PM – 8 PM Sunday.

The full library hours schedule is available here.

Posted August 29th, 2009 by Tracy Powell
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Welcome new students!

Pitts would like to welcome all of Candler’s new students.  We are looking forward to meeting each of you during the Orientation Tours from 3:30-5 on Tuesday, during our workshop on research skills from 2:45-3:30 on Wednesday, and during our Research Tools orientation session for all new students from 3:45-4:45 on Wednesday.  In addition, we welcome you to stop by, introduce yourselves, and let us know how we can best help as you begin your studies.

Posted August 24th, 2009 by Tracy Powell
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Welcome new international students!

Pitts Library welcomes all of Candler’s new international students who begin orientation this week.  We look forward to meeting you in the library Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 PM.  Please let us know how the library can help you as you begin your studies.

Posted August 18th, 2009 by Tracy Powell
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New Religion Databases Available at Emory

Several religion databases have been added to Databases @ Emory over the summer months and are available for your use.  They include several general religion resources and several focused on the study of Islam.

General religion resources:

1) World Religion Database (covers 1900-2050): A statistical database of  religious affiliations for religious traditions and countries around the world.  Access to many of the censuses and surveys which underlie the figures in the database is also provided.  The WRD will be updated with new sets of data as they become available.

2) Brill Dictionary of Religion: A thoroughly-revised English language version of the Metzler Lexikon Religion: Gegenwart, Alltag, Medien (4 vols., Stuttgart/Weimar: J. B. Metzler 1999–2002) which eliminates some of that title’s focus on Europe in general and Germany in particular, this version contains more than 500 articles arranged thematically around 6 areas: the human body; the individual and the group;  environment, society, and culture; religious concepts; history of religions; geography and territoriality of religions; and a seventh category of critical terms for the study of religion.

3) Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism (covers late antiquity to the present): Critical overviews on the nature and historical development from Gnosticism and Hermetism to Astrology, Alchemy and Magic, from the Hermetic Tradition of the Renaissance to Rosicrucianism and Christian Theosophy, and from Freemasonry and Illuminism to 19th-century Occultism and the contemporary New Age movement. Furthermore it contains articles about the life and work of the major personalities in the history of Gnosis and Western Esotericism.

Resources for the study of Islam:

1) Oxford Islamic Studies Online: contains more than 3000 English-language articles on the Islamic world, in addition to a glossary, two interpretations, and a concordance of the Qu’ran

2) Encyclopedia of the Qur’an (covers 8th century-present): Encyclopaedic dictionary of qur’ānic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis, extended with essays on important themes and subjects within qur’ānic studies.

3) Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (covers 8th century-present): Covers methodologies, paradigms and sources; family, law and politics; body, sexuality and health; economics, education, mobility, and space; practices, interpretations, and representations.

Each of these databases can be found either by searching by database title in EUCLID, or by clicking on the Databases @ Emory link on the Pitts home page, and then selecting “Religion” from the “Find by subject” dropdown menu.

Posted August 5th, 2009 by Tracy Powell
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