Remote Access Restored and System Dashboard for Troubleshooting Launched

 

Remote access to the library’s EBSCOHost databases and ebook collections was restored as of 10:22 pm last night (09/22/20) 😊.

I’m also happy to share exciting changes we’ve made to improve your library experiences.

New, Notable and Gender Studies Ebooks

New

In July 2020, shortly after finishing the Growing a Personal Anti-racist Voice and Identity study in which I had recommended Remnants by the Hardings, I realized that we did not have the book in our library! This is a wonderful read by the wife and daughter of Vincent Harding, a leader of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s. I am now happy to share that the ebook is now available via remote access from our library for your reading pleasure. Enjoy.

Freeney Harding, Rosemarie, and Rachel E Harding. Remnants : A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. https://lpts.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1171014795.

Notable

A perfect ebook for our current climate of unrest and protest is Disciplined Hope by Prof. Craigo-Snell. It is available by remote access from the library's ebook Religion Collection (EBSCOHost).


Craigo-Snell, Shannon Nichole. Disciplined Hope : Prayer, Politics, and Resistance. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2019. https://lpts.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1085638129 

Fall Course and Textbook Reserves

Course Reserves for Fall

Course reserve readings will be made available in CAMS. There will be no print course reserves, only electronic. Out of an abundance of caution and care, faculty have been asked to submit all course reserves requests for the entire semester before Aug. 14th, 2020.

Textbook Reserves for Fall

The 2-hour in-building reserve of textbooks is a service that the Library will not be able to offer in the Fall. The quarantine period required for books is 4 days between users. Electronic textbook reserves are being explored using the Fall Book List that was submitted by Aug. 14, 2020.

Recent Anti-racism Resources

Hello beloved community! 

We are now in "Ordinary Time." Yet, we're clearly living in an extraordinary time of global outrage about police brutality and anti-black racism. All in the midst of a global pandemic!  As you may know, ordinary time is the ordered life of the church.  A season in the Christian church calendar it is time that is outside the two great seasons of church celebration. It usually last for about 33 or 34 weeks, beginning with the presentation of Jesus in the Temple, skipping Easter until Pentecost and ending before Advent. So, right now, we're in the second period of ordinary time, during the time of the Pentecost, a time of holy fire and power. *You* are a vital part of the good changes happening in our world.  I thank you for your faithful witness and highlight a few materials from our library.  May they help to fuel our collective imagination and individual actions towards dismantling racism, and ushering in the order and harmony of our Holy God. 

E.M. White Library: We've recently added an open access undergraduate textbook on anti-racist writing to our eBook collections. You can access it through Morgan/Discovery (our library catalog).

Inoue, A. B. (2015). Antiracist writing assessment ecologies : teaching and assessing writing for a socially just future (Ser. Perspectives on writing). WAC Clearinghouse. https://lpts.on.worldcat.org/oclc/927141387

 

Anti-racism Digital Library: The new Louisville, KY collection currently contains four richly detailed educational resources about redlining, racial capitalism, and the history of slavery in Louisville, to help guide our reflections for strategic action. The Louisville Seminary collection has 13 items including recent #BLM writings by the Rev. Dr. Alton B. Pollard, III, Prof. Debra Mumford, Prof. Shannon Craigo-Snell, Dr. Steve Cook, and me. Other materials include a paper on Race by Prof. Reed and links to related Spring syllabi by Prof. Pauw, Prof. Garrett, etc. For now, I especially want to highlight Dr. Cook's reflection on a passage from Genesis and using "The Creation" art by Aaron Douglas. Here's the closing excerpt and you can find the art and the full reflection here: 

For our moment, we must recognize how “The Creation” bears witness that Black Lives Matter in the cosmic order of God’s creation. To name Black Lives as integral to the goodness of God’s creation does not deny that all humans are made in the image ofGod. Rather, it recognizes the destruction to God’s good creation done by generations of racist actions, policies, ideologies, and structures. Generations of white silence, ignorance, and apathy, too. To say Black Lives Matter calls us, members of the Episcopal Church, to commit to anti-racist practices and the dismantling of white supremacy to honor all that God has made. May our generation be the one to celebrate finally the full and awesome goodness of God’s creation. Amen. 

May it be so.

Open Access Guide: Free Access to Ebooks and More

Image Credits: ETH-Bibliothek, Zurich, Switzerland

You've searched Morgan Discovery (the E.M. White Library Catalog), Ebook Religion, and Ebook Collections. The book you're looking for isn't available electronically.  Check out the new Open Access Guide. Four sources from it to access ebooks freely are described below.

Important Note: The resources listed below are not really open access resources (OA has a specific definition); they are paid subscription services that have been made free, open access during the pandemic.

1.  EBSCO eBook Academic Collection- LPTS community

A larger collection of eBooks than the Religion eBook Collection to which the library subscribes.  Covers popular and academic topics including:  Arts & Architecture, Biographies & Memoirs, Body, Mind & Spirit, Business & Economics, Children's & Young Adult Fiction, Children's & Young Adult Nonfiction, Computer Science, Cooking, Crafts & Collectibles, Education, Engineering & Technology, Fiction, Health & Medicine, History, Home & Garden, Humor, Law, Literature & Criticism, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Reference, Religion, Sciences, Self-Help & Family, Social Sciences, Sports & Games, Study Aids & Language Learning, Travel, and True Crime.  Available through June 21.

2. Redshelf Responds - Students only

Redshelf Responds is an initiative with publishers that allows students in qualifying institutions and our Seminary is qualified, to borrow up to SEVEN (7) textbooks for free! Available through May 25, 2020.

3. VITALSource - Instructors, Students

Like Redshelf, this is another source that is assisting students and institutions affected by the COVID-19 pandemic; VitalSource® and leading publishers have expanded free access to digital learning materials to higher education students throughout the U.S. for the remainder of the Spring 2020 semester. .Redshelf appears to have more of the books in the subjects of our Seminary, but the VitalSource advantage is that it also allows instructors (and others) to also borrow. Additionally, VitalSource has books by the American Psychological Association which may be of interest to our MFT learning communities. Available until May 25, 2020.

4. National Emergency Library, an initiative of the Internet Archive  - For Everyone

This is a collection of over 1,386,000 books i.e. over a million books and growing daily, that supports emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries are closed.

Consult a more complete list of reliable open access sources for accessing ebooks in the E.M. White Library Open Access Guide <https://lpts.libguides.com/openaccess/>  

Questions? Need help? Contact the Library Online Help Desk: Email library  at lpts dot edu 

Remote Ebook Access Pictorial Guide

Remote Ebook Access Pictorial Guide by Rachel Lemke, MDiv 2021

Remote Ebook Access Pictorial Guide by Rachel Lemke, MDiV 2021

E.M. White Library has thousands of ebooks available for remote access. This is a step by step guide to accessing and opening eBooks.  Download Remote Ebook Access Pictorial Guide.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Remote access to ebooks is available only to LPTS students, faculty, and employees. There are a few different ways to retrieve eBooks. This picture guide shows you how to open an ebook via Morgan Discovery, the library catalog.

If you are attempting to access an ebook from over 12,000+ offered through E.M. White Library, and need some guidance, we are here for you!

Questions? Have trouble accessing or opening an eBook? Please don't hesitate to contact the Library Help Desk:  Email library at lpts dot edu