Entries from November 2006

Library 2.0

Date November 16, 2006

Library 2.0 is a movement to incorporate Web 2.0 ideas and technologies into academic libraries. I have made a few attempts to do this, such as

The SBTS Research Guide - an online wiki which allows content to be edited or added to by faculty and current students in the Graduate Research Seminar. Everyone [...]

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commonplacing

Date November 15, 2006

More new titles of interest in the library:
Michael D. Bush, This Incomplete One: Words Occasioned by the Death of a Young Person (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006). A moving compilation of funeral and grave-side messages given on the occasion of the untimely death of a younger person, this short work includes contributions by sixteen [...]

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a random quote: einstein & theodicy

Date November 14, 2006

I periodically pull a book from the shelves here at the library and just begin reading. Today, I pulled Albert Einstein’s Ideas and Opinions (New York: Random House / Modern Library: 1994), based on his Mein Weltbild. On page 49, he writes:
During the youthful period of mankind’s spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods [...]

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