The November collection of the month is entitled the Trinity. 

For those studying on the 3rd year module number THL341, this maybe an area of interest. 

As usual, the books can be found on the display shelves on the 1st floor of the library.  Please free to borrow any of the items from the display.

Just to let you know that all the ‘Indicative Reading’ required for the first year modules has now been linked to the library catalogue.

To view the required reading for each module, please use the headed lists on the right of this blog page.

The October ‘Collection of the Month’ is entitled  the ‘New Testament and the Gospels’.  To preview the books please use the link on the right-hand side of this page. 

As usual, the actual books are on the display on the first floor of the library.  Please feel free to take any texts that interest you.

A warm welcome to all the new MA and BA students studying theology.  If you have any library enquiries during your time at the University please come along and see me.  I am based in the ground floor office, close to the library counter area.

The Magnet Library at St. Leonards-On-Sea, East Sussex is a theological library for the Diocese of Chichester housing around 16,000 books.  The core of the collection is from the libraries of the Community of the Holy Family and there is a wealth of theological material, both academic and popular, with much to interest any reader or researcher.  New books have als been purchased to support courses including the Diploma and Foundation Course in Theology and Ministry. 

The library is freely available to all for reference purposes and is usually open on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays (but it is advisable to ring first).  For all your enquiries and details on library borrowing rights please contact the librarian on 01424 431489.

I hope you all had a good summer and are ready for the start of  the new semester.

During the summer a few changes have happened in the Learning Resource Centre.  The most noticeable physical change is on the ground floor, where the IT HelpDesk has moved outside of the main Open Access IT room (G11) to the area previously occupied by the photocopiers and Reprints. The ground floor photocopiers are now adjacent to the Otter Gallery and Reprints are on the 1st floor. The new IT HelpDesk covers both IT and Media Centre queries. Also the  Pay2Printmachine where you can credit your printer and photocopy account is now on the corridor wall to the left as you come into the LRC (opposite the Equipment Loan lockers).

On the technical side, access to our Electronic Resources has changed to Shibboleth. As each database provider operates Shibboleth in a different way, you may have difficulty logging into some databases which require selections to be made from drop-down menus. The Librarians have provided guidance for each database with HelpSheets available in the Library. Keep checking back on the blog for more changes and information throughout the semester and don’t forget you can always contact me in person if you need assistance in accessing any of the electronic resources.

The electronic resource ‘Project MUSE’ is now allowing full-text access to two new journal titles, they are:

Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. (issues available from 2005 onwards).

Catholic Historical Review.  (issues available from 2000 onwards).

You can access the journals from the library – electronic resouces pages via Portia.    If you have any problems please let me know.

You may be interested to learn about the release of a new ’Otter Memorial Paper’ entitled ‘Richard of Chichester (1197-1253)’.   Edited by retired lecturer Paul Foster, the book comprises of a preface by John Hind and includes essays undertaken by the David Jones, Mike Stone, and Rachel Moriarty.  Copies of the book are available to borrow from the library (isbn 9780948765421), or can be purchased at the library counter (priced £10.00).

For those interested there is an exhibition “showing the history behind the Christian heritage of Britain”.  On display will be many theological books including some sixteenth century bibles.  

The exhibition is taking place in Providence Chapel, Chapel Street, Chichester from 23rd to 27th June (Tuesday to Friday 10am – 5pm and Saturday 10aam to 1pm).  Admission is free.

Following on from the previous blog entry,  we now have access to a further three electronic ‘full-text’  journal titles via the library electronic resource ‘Project Muse’. 

The new titles are:

1. Israel Studies:  Issued three times a year, this journal deals with all current and historical issues relating to Israel.  Included in the back issues are articles relating to religious debates and to the events of the  holocaust.  Full text access to the journal is available from the first issue which was published in 1996, through to the current edition.
2. Modern Judaism: Again this journal is issued three times a year and full-text access is available from volume 16 , published in 1996.  The journal debates a variety of issues concerning jewish life today as well as historical events that have shaped judaism within the last hundred years.
3. U.S. Catholic Historian: Access to this journal begins with the latest edition – Volume 27 (Winter 2009).  This magazine looks at the historical development of the catholic church in America.

If you need any assistance accessing these journal titles please get in touch.