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Scan and Email Articles with the Periodicals Room Photocopier

Are you looking for a cost effective and environmentally friendly option for saving a copy of an article for your research?  You can now scan and email articles to yourself for free using the photocopier in the Periodicals Room.  Instructions are posted near the machine.  Please contact a reference librarian if you have any questions.

Posted September 29th, 2009 by Tracy Powell
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Two New Databases from Brill: New Jacoby and New Pauly

Anyone interested in digging into the ancient world will appreciate these new full-text offerings, based on classic reference works. Brill’s New Jacoby collects commentary on the fragments of 856 Greek historians, each with Greek text, English translation, new critical commentary, a brief encyclopedia-style entry, and a select bibliography. This database builds on F. Jacoby’s Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, and contains much new information, plus some new authors (though the old numbering system is retained for easy reference). The database can be browsed alphabetically by name, as well as searched by itself or in conjunction with other Brill databases; all articles include a formatted bibliographic citation. If you ever need to know everything there is to know about Androsthenes of Thasos, this is the place to look.

Brill’s New Pauly includes full-text articles, maps, site plans, genealogical tables, and black-and white photographs, covering all aspects of the ancient world, including persons, places, institutions, events, artifacts, technical terms, ideas and concepts, and the interaction of the Greeks and Romans with Semitic, Celtic, Germanic, and other cultures. You can browse the database—which contains the entire text of Metzler’s Der Neue Pauly and also all of the English translation New Pauly—in two sections, Antiquity and the Classical Tradition, and you can easily switch back and forth between English and German (the German section is more complete, as the translation is still in progress). Or (like Brill’s New Jacoby) you can search the database both by itself and in conjunction with other Brill databases. Again, all articles include a formatted bibliographic citation. Wondering where the tradition about the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow came from? Look up the article on the Celtic “Rainbow cup” in the Antiquities section.

Brill’s New Jacoby and Brill’s New Pauly can be accessed by title search in the catalog, by clicking on the Databases @ Emory link on the Pitts home page, or by using the direct links below.

http://libcat1.cc.emory.edu:32888/DB=newjcby

http://libcat1.cc.emory.edu:32888/DB=newpauly


Posted September 21st, 2009 by Bill Shepherd
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Fall Wednesday Workshops

Are you interested in learning tools and tips for exegesis, learning how to access books or articles at Emory, or perhaps in managing church records or designing a church Web site?  These are a few of the topics you can explore at one of this fall’s Wednesday Workshops.  The schedule and registration forms are now available, and we will provide lunch for the first 12 registrants for each workshop!

Posted September 15th, 2009 by Tracy Powell
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Library Book Sale Tuesday, September 15

Friends of Pitts Theology Library is holding our annual library book sale on Tuesday,  September 15 from 8:30 AM-3 PM.  Books are priced to sell, with many costing only $1 or 50 cents.  Theology, biblical studies, pastoral care, and fiction are just a few of the topics represented among the items for sale.   Join us in the courtyard between the library’s back door and the entrance to Brooks Commons.

Posted September 14th, 2009 by Tracy Powell
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Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception

The first two volumes of this series, covering topics from Aaron to Atheism,  are now available in the reference room (REF. BS440 .E539).  EBR focuses on the histories of biblical exegesis, themes, and effects, as well as the reception of those themes in art and culture and in Islam, non-monotheistic religions, and broader cultural impulses.  Five “domains” are included: the formulation of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament; the formulation of the New Testament; the influence of the Bible in Judaic traditions; the influence of the Bible in Christian traditions; and biblical reception and influence in art and other religions.  Each article chapter provides additional references.  When complete, the series will comprise 30 volumes.

Posted September 3rd, 2009 by Tracy Powell
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