No. 1
January term is finally well underway. We are here to help you — as ever — though please note Library hours are not quite as long. Check out IRELAND LIBRARY HOURS. You will notice our spiffy new calendar look, courtesy of Google gadgets and the Library’s new web wonder worker, Ben Durrant.
No. 2
Through June, the Church celebrates the bi-millennial Year of Saint Paul the Apostle. We call attention to two small displays, one of recent books about Paul (check cases on either side of Circulation or this list from CLICnet) and a display in the Reference Room, including a Bible atlas illustrating missionary journeys, the Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, and a plate of the famous Caravaggio painting, from the venerable Encyclopedia of World Art (McGraw-Hill).
No. 3
Finally, our library conservator Sheila Hague brought forth a wonderful volume that had evaded cataloging for some years. Now added to the collection by cataloger Betsy Polakowski, it is the oversize second volume of a rare Coptic New Testament with parallel Arabic translation published in London, 1847-1852. As far as we can tell there are only a few sets in the States. Our volume joins the other Coptic-Arabic Bible in our Special Collections, a one volume parallel Gospels also published in Britain but a little earlier, in 1829.