October 1 – St. Thomas Libraries Blog
Archbishop Ireland Library

October 1

Out sick yesterday so I missed the kick off of my own blog – oh well.
And back at work, the day of course begins with catching up and sort of spills over from there.
Since I am giving a faculty workshop Oct 8 on “Search” and Theology, my goal to think through the topic, really, no kidding. I plan on using some “wow” and some “oh no this is terrible” examples and cases. Plus, there is Is Google Making Us Stupid article in the Atlantic Monthly on the mind. Is there time for this …. rumination? Is is.
Or will ‘catch up’ take over.
For example: I figure out why our online access to the Irish Theological Quarterly stops in 2006 but there is full text online at the Sage Journals site. Easy answer dawns – there is only a teaser amount at Sage site and we do not subscribe via Sage; so that’s is that, too bad.
For example: I need to set up a seminary alumnus access to the ATLAS alumni version – easy enough but crafting a reply means the ‘pastoral’ aspect of wouldn’t the alumnus want to go through Notre Dame where he is taking a course….
For example: I need to get our new books list posted to our web that Betsy so kindly pulled from the catalog. Surely, I can use it for a TLM promotion. Takes time to go through the list, break into basic categories, clean up the formatting a little bit, post up in dread collage, etc.
For example: Take the take time to send out the message on renewing one of the basic online subscriptions, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy I suppose there is a good reason this has to be done explicitly and in consultation with a committee every year every every year every year.
For example: Field question about the undergraduate theology department’s library acquisition budget for the year; the need to correct misinformation on the MAT language proficiency pages at the seminary web site; question about condition of a set of books wanted for interlibrary loan. You get the idea.
And oh actually helping students — I always like to impress them when they ask for a Reference book by name and I can lead them right to it.

Previous Post Next Post

You Might Also Like