Milligan Library Life

by the staff of P.H. Welshimer Memorial Library & Seminary Library

Archives Intern mounts exhibit on the history of Wonderful Wednesday

Written by Larrun Maynor (’19) and Katherine Banks

A new exhibit has been installed in the Welshimer Library with items from the Holloway Archives. Larrun Maynor, Class of 2019, has curated the exhibit as part of her archives internship with the Holloway Archives.

Larrun Maynor (’19) with the exhibit.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Wonderful Wednesday. Wonderful Wednesday is a day that most, if not all, Milligan students look forward to in their spring semester. It’s a day shrouded in mystery, however, since only a handful of people know the actual date it will take place and these are sworn to secrecy. This annual tradition began on April 30, 1969. President Jess Johnson made a declaration on the Seeger Chapel steps that there would be no classes for the day and that students instead could “hearken to the opportunities for food, fun, and fellowship.” Activities in the early years included discussion panels, picnics, softball games, and folk dancing. In the later years, activities such as races up and down Sutton Hill, Jell-O wrestling, and tug-of-war over the creek became popular. One tradition that has remained a crowd favorite is the waterslide. The exhibit highlights many of these activities through photos, yearbooks, and other documents.

1984 Wonderful Wednesday activities

When asked about her experience while doing research, Larrun replied, “I truly enjoyed searching through the archives to find the different images and documents that are being displayed in this exhibit. There were so many fun pictures to choose from, especially in the yearbooks.”

Katherine (Katie) Banks, the college archivist and internship supervisor, says, “I hope that Milligan students and faculty alike will drop by to see the history of this surprise holiday. Larrun has picked out some great items to show the day’s history. Visitors might be surprised to see how much the holiday has changed since 1969!”

You can also view parts of the exhibit online through MCStor, Milligan College’s digital repository.

Milligan’s Archive Internship opportunity

Each fall semester, students are invited to apply for one volunteer Archive Internship opportunity at The Holloway Archives at Milligan College. The internship begins the following spring semester. All majors are welcome to apply. Please stay tuned for announcements coming this fall.

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New Books and Media Received (February 2019)

The following Books and DVDs (137 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through the Acquisitions Budget and by donation during February 2019.

Seminary Library

History
Archaeology and history of eighth-century Judah, 2018.

The color of compromise: the truth about the American church’s complicity in racism, 2019.

Slavery’s long shadow: race and reconciliation in American Christianity, 2019.

Language and Literature
Meaning-based translation: a guide to cross-language equivalence, 1998.

Using and enjoying biblical Greek: reading the New Testament with fluency and devotion, 2015.

Law
Zondervan 2019 minister’s tax and financial guide: for 2018 tax returns, 2019.

Music
A glad obedience: why and what we sing, 2019. 

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Augustinian and ecclesial Christian ethics: on loving enemies, 2018.

Between two trees: our transformation from death to life, 2019.

Biblical interpretation and method: essays in honour of John Barton, 2013.

The Christian doctrine of humanity: explorations in constructive dogmatics, 2018.

Contemporary theology: an introduction: classical, evangelical, philosophical, and global perspectives, 2019.

Enfleshing theology: embodiment, discipleship, and politics in the work of M. Shawn Copeland, 2018.

The genesis of good and evil: the fall(out) and original sin in the Bible, 2018.

Introducing Jesus: a short guide to the Gospels’ history and message, 2018.

Jesus–the end and the beginning: tracing the Christ-shaped nature of everything, 2019.

Justification [two volumes], by Michael Scott Horton, 2018.

Lewis on the Christian life: becoming truly human in the presence of God, 2018.

Liturgy on the edge: pastoral and attractional worship, 2018.

Loving the poor, saving the rich: wealth, poverty, and early Christian formation, 2012.

The New Testament: a translation, by David Bentley Hart, 2017.

The New Testament in Byzantium, 2016.

Organizational leadership: foundations & practices for Christians, 2014.

The Orthodox reality: culture, theology, and ethics in the modern world, 2018.

The Syriac versions of the de spiritu sancto, by Basil, David G. K. Taylor, 1999.

A war of loves: the unexpected story of a gay activist discovering Jesus, 2018.

Reference
The Hebrew Bible: a translation with commentary, by Robert Alter, 2019.

The Syriac world, 2019. 

Office Reference
The SBL handbook of style, 2014.

Welshimer Library

Bibliography, Library Science, and Information Resources
The art of graphic design, 2018.

Fine Arts
Serious play: design in midcentury America, 2018.

History
Ages of discord: a structural-demographic analysis of American history, 2016.

Educated: a memoir, 2018.

The heartbeat of Wounded Knee: native America from 1890 to the present, 2019.

I’m still here: black dignity in a world made for whiteness, 2018.

Nomad: from Islam to America–a personal journey through the clash of civilizations, 2011.

On the other side of freedom: the case for hope, 2018.

Republic in peril: American empire and the liberal tradition, 2018.

Slavery in the North: forgetting history and recovering memory, 2018.

We were eight years in power: an American tragedy, 2017.

When they call you a terrorist: a Black Lives Matter memoir, 2018.

White rage: the unspoken truth of our racial divide, 2016.

Language and Literature
Born a crime: stories from a South African childhood, 2019.

Men we reaped: a memoir, 2014.

Rules for the dance: a handbook for writing and reading metrical verse, 1998.

Law
The lynching: the epic courtroom battle that brought down the Klan, 2016.

Medicine
The body keeps the score: brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma, 2015.

Good to go: what the athlete in all of us can learn from the strange science of recovery, 2019.

Horticultural therapy methods: connecting people and plants in health care, human services, and therapeutic programs, 2017.

Shinrin-yoku: the Japanese art of forest bathing, 2018.

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Chance and the sovereignty of God: a God-centered approach to probability and random events, 2014.

Globalization, spirituality, and justice: navigating the path to peace, 2015.

Heaven is empty: a cross-cultural approach to “religion” and empire in ancient China, 2018.

Love, Inc.: dating apps, the big white wedding, and chasing the happily neverafter, 2019.

Love undocumented: risking trust in a fearful world, 2018.

The nature principle: human restoration and the end of nature-deficit disorder, 2011.

Planted: a story of creation, community, and calling, 2013.

Resisting structural evil: love as ecological and economic vocation, 2013.

The road back to you: an Enneagram journey to self-discovery, 2016.

Roadmap to reconciliation: moving communities into unity, wholeness, and justice, 2015.

Seeking refuge: on the shores of the global refugee crisis, 2016.

Tattoos on the heart: the power of boundless compassion, 2010.

Tell me how it ends: an essay in forty questions, 2017.

Understanding scientific theories of origins: cosmology, geology, and biology in Christian perspective, 2018.

Political Science
Freedom is a constant struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the foundations of a movement, 2016.

Social Sciences
… And forgive them their debts: lending, foreclosure and redemption from Bronze Age finance to the Jubilee Year, 2018.

Banker to the poor: micro-lending and the battle against world poverty, 1999.

The blood of Emmett Till, 2017.

Creative confidence: unleashing the creative potential within us all, 2013.

The culture map: breaking through the invisible boundaries of global business, 2014.

Dare to lead: brave work, tough conversations, whole hearts, 2018.

Happy singlehood: the rising acceptance and celebration of solo living, 2019.

The idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the quest to end poverty, 2014.

Junctures in women’s leadership: the arts, 2018.

Preemptive Love: pursuing peace one heart at a time, 2014.

Terrify No More Young Girls Held Captive and the Daring Undercover Operation to Win Their Freedom, 2010.

Technology
Audel mechanical trades pocket manual, 2004.

Audel welding pocket reference, 2007.

Basic machines and how they work, 1971.

DVDs
The adventures of Gumby: the 60s series. Volume 1, 2016.

The adventures of Gumby: the 60s series. Volume 2, 2016.

Anastasia, 2010.

Arrested development. The complete seasons 1-4, 2014.

Batman, the animated series. Volume 3, 2005.

Batman: the animated series. Volume 1, 2018.

Batman: the animated series. Volume 2, 2018.

Batman: the animated series. Volume 4, 2018.

Davey and Goliath. Complete Collection, 2010.

Doctor Who. The complete eleventh series, 2019.

The Gumby show. The complete 50s series, 2015.

He-man and the Masters of the Universe, Season one, 10 episodes, 2011.

The LEGO movie, 2014.

Sailor Moon. Season 1, part 1, 2014.

Sailor moon. Season 1, part 2, 2014.

The Secret of NIMH, 1998.

The Terminator, 2001.

Terminator 2: judgment day, 2003.

Tom and Jerry: the Gene Deitch collection, 2015.

VeggieTales. All the shows. Volume one 1993-1999: all the silliness, all the lessons, all the love, 2015.

VeggieTales. All the shows. Volume three 2005-2010: all the silliness, all the lessons, all the love, 2015.

VeggieTales. All the shows. Volume two 2000-2005: all the silliness, all the lessons, all the love, 2015. 

Juvenile
Children’s Bible easy-to-read version, 2012.

File under: 13 suspicious incidents, 2014.

Growing in God’s love: a story Bible, 2018.

In the beginning: illustrated stories from the Old Testament, 2017.

The Jesse tree, 2005.

Jesus, by Grün Anselm, Giuliano Ferri, and Laura Watkinson, 2014.

Manger, by Helen Cann and Lee Bennett Hopkins, 2014.

Mary’s song, by Lee Bennett Hopkins and Stephen Alcorn, 2012.

Our Father, by Barbara Nascimbeni and Rainer Oberthür 2016.

Parables of Jesus, by Marie Aubinais, 2018.

Paul writes (a letter), 2018.

The watcher, 2017.

Juvenile Honor and Awards Books

A big mooncake for Little Star, 2018. 2019 Caldecott Honor Book

 

See Pip flap, 2018. 2019 Geisel Honor Book

 

Reference
The Hebrew Bible: a translation with commentary, by Robert Alter, 2019.

Donated Gift Items to the Milligan Libraries
20th century journey: a memoir of a life and the times.

Africanity: the cultural unity of Black Africa.

Ancient China: Chinese civilization from the origins to the Tang Dynasty.

Anthology of Chinese literature.

Christ in Melanesia: exploring theological issues.

Confucian analects, The great learning, and the doctrine of the mean.

Dimensions of the Holocaust: lectures at Northwestern University.

A Guide for translators and revisers of the Holy Scriptures: a statement of principles.

Guidelines for barefoot language learning: an approach through involvement and independence.

The kings of Buganda.

Language by ear and by eye; the relationships between speech and reading.

The last 100 days.

A manual of literacy for preliterate peoples.

New Testament illustrations for use in Bible Society publications, series 2.

New Testament illustrations for use in Bible Society publications.

Old Testament illustrations for use in Bible Society publications.

Preparing the manuscript: a manual for translators.

A selection of African prose.

The Southern Highlands: Papua New Guinea.

Vietnam, a history.

Weights, money, measures and time.


Helsabeck Archives Receives North American Christian Convention Archives

Milligan Libraries is excited to announce that the Helsabeck Archives of the Stone-Campbell Movement recently received the North American Christian Convention archives. The large collection of over 100 boxes contains material spanning the history of the convention. Included are photos, audio and visual material, and papers documenting the 90 year plus history of the independent Christian Churches/Churches of Christ’s annual convention.

“When the NACC (North American Christian Convention) contacted us about donating their archives, I was thrilled,” Katherine Banks, Information Resources Librarian & College Archivist, says. “Because the Helsabeck Archives is focusing on collecting the history of the Christian Churches/Churches of Christ branch of the Stone-Campbell Movement and the Convention is such a pivotal part of that branch’s history, I knew it would make a wonderful centerpiece collection for the archives.”

Letterhead from the NACC Executive Director Records collection

First held in 1927, the North American Christian Convention was a gathering of the independent Christian Churches/Churches of Christ (“4 C’s”). As such, it was not a denominational meeting, but a meeting highlighted by discussions, exhibits, worship services, and preaching. Beginning in 1950, the convention was held annually until 2018, after which it changed its name to Spire. The convention has been held in conjunction with other similar meetings at times, including a long tenure with Bible Bowl, a youth Bible quiz competition.

“This collection is a superb addition to the Helsabeck Archives,” remarks David Kiger, Theological Librarian and Assistant Director of Library Services. “Our goal with the Helsabeck Archives is to be a vital research center for Stone-Campbell Movement history. Because of Milligan and Emmanuel’s long-standing connection with the convention, the NACC archives is one giant step in that direction.” Former Theological Librarian John Mark Wade donated the shelving necessary to house this unique collection in the Helsabeck Archives.

Newsletter title from the NACC Executive Director Records collection

The first collection made available for research from the larger NACC archives collection is the Executive Director Office’s records. “This has been a fascinating part of the larger collection to work on,” says Banks, who prepared this collection for research. “For anyone wanting to know the work and planning that went into preparing for and debriefing from the convention every year, this will be a valuable resource.” A finding aid (detailed record of the collection, including a list of the contents) can be found on MCStor, Milligan Libraries’ institutional repository. Other parts of the larger archives will be opened for research as they are processed.

We are grateful to the North American Christian Convention for choosing the Helsabeck Archives and Milligan Libraries to preserve their history!

The Helsabeck Archives of the Stone-Campbell Movement, located in the Seminary Library branch of Milligan Libraries, is open by appointment 8:00 AM-4:00 PM, Monday through Friday.


New Books and Media Received (December 2018 & January 2019)

The following Books and DVDs (331 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through the Acquisitions Budget and by donation during December 2018 and January 2019.

Seminary Library

Language and Literature
Relevance theory : a guide to successful communication in translation, 1992.

A week in the fall of Jerusalem, 2017.

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Acts of the Apostles: interpretation, history, and theology, 2016.

An apocalypse of love: essays in honor of Cyril O’Regan, 2018.

The Bible from late antiquity to the Renaissance: writing and images from the Vatican Library, 2017.

Black theology: essays on global perspectives, 2017.

Black Theology USA and South Africa: politics, culture, and liberation, 2005.

The Cambridge companion to Black theology, 2012.

The Cambridge edition of early Christian writings. Volume 1, God, 2017.

Christ the heart of creation, 2018.

A commentary on the book of the twelve: the minor prophets, 2018.

Complete works by Leontius, Brian E. Daley, 2017.

Connections: a lectionary commentary for preaching and worship, 2018.

The end of preaching, 2018.

Everyday glory: the revelation of God in all of reality, 2018.

Fear of the other: no fear in love, 2016.

Feasting on the Gospels: a feasting on the word commentary, 2013.

The genesis of liberation: biblical interpretation in the antebellum narratives of the enslaved, 2016.

The gospel of John in modern interpretation, 2018.

The hermeneutics of the biblical writers: learning to interpret scripture from the prophets and apostles, 2018.

The history of theological education, 2015.

How Israel became a people, 2013.

Hymnes contre les hérésies; Hymnes contre Julien, 2017.

Images of pastoral care: classic readings, 2005.

Jesus the Spirit baptizer: Christology in light of Pentecost, 2018.

The kingdom of man: genesis and failure of the modern project, 2018.

Learning theology through the church’s worship: an introduction to Christian belief, 2018.

Looking back, moving forward: wisdom from the Sankofa Institute for African American Pastoral Leadership, 2018.

The Lord’s Prayer (Interpretation: resources for the use of Scripture in the church), 2018.

Pastor: the theology and practice of ordained ministry, 2016.

A philosophy of the Christian religion, 2018.

Politics and the order of love: an Augustinian ethic of democratic citizenship, 2008.

Putting God on the map: theology and conceptual mapping, 2018.

Reading Acts, 2018.

Rehearsing scripture: discovering God’s word in community, 2018.

Resourcing theological anthropology: a constructive account of humanity in the light of Christ, 2017.

The righteous and merciful judge: the day of the Lord in the life and theology of Paul, 2018.

The sacred economy of ancient Israel, 2015.

Scripture re-envisioned: Christophanic exegesis and the making of a Christian Bible, 2019.

Simply good news: why the gospel is news and what makes it good, 2017.

Sin in Origen’s Commentary on Romans, 2018.

The Son who learned obedience: a theological case against the eternal submission of the Son, 2018.

Still Christian: following Jesus out of American evangelicalism, 2017.

Studying Paul’s letters with the mind and heart, 2018.

The Syriac versions of the de spiritu sancto, 1999.

Tending the tree of life: preaching and worship through reproductive loss and adoption, 2018.

A theology of grace in six controversies, 2016.

Walking in the prophetic tradition: models of speaking truth and acting in love for everyday… people, 2018.

William Desmond and contemporary theology, 2017.

Womanist Midrash: a reintroduction to the women of the Torah and the throne, 2017.

Youthful preaching: strengthening the relationship between youth, adults, and preaching, 2016.

Reference
The dictionary of classical Hebrew, v. 9, 2016.

Theological dictionary of the Old Testament. Volume XVI, 2018.

Welshimer Library

Bibliography, Library Science, and Information Resources
Bookbinding: a comprehensive guide to folding, sewing & binding, 2018.

The codex and crafts in late antiquity, 2018.

The desegregation of public libraries in the Jim Crow South: civil rights and local activism, 2018.

Fine Arts
Animation: a world history [3 volumes], 2017.

Artemisia Gentileschi in a changing light, 2017.

Leonardo da Vinci, 2017.

Monochrome: painting in black and white, 2017.

Pollock’s modernism, 2017.

Sagmeister & Walsh: beauty, 2018.

Sagmeister: made you look: another self-indulgent design monograph (practically everything we have ever designed including the bad stuff), 2009.

Geography
In the field: life and work in cultural anthropology, 2018.

Is the cemetery dead?, 2018.

This green and growing land: environmental activism in American history, 2018.

Why good people do bad environmental things, 2018. 

History
1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the birth of the new world disorder, 2018.

American empire: a global history, 2018.

At mama’s knee: mothers and race in black and white, 2017.

The burning house: Jim Crow and the making of modern America, 2018.

Caliphate redefined: the mystical turn in Ottoman political thought, 2018.

China’s India war: collision course on the roof of the world, 2018.

The Chinese must go: violence, exclusion, and the making of the alien in America, 2018.

Cleopatra’s daughter: and other royal women of the Augustan era, 2018.

The Code of Putinism, 2018.

Friends divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, 2017.

Giza and the pyramids: the definitive history, 2017.

Heroes, Martyrs, and Political Messiahs in Revolutionary Cuba, 1946-1958, 2018.

The Indian world of George Washington: the first President, the first Americans, and the birth of the nation, 2018.

The love of strangers: what six Muslim students learned in Jane Austen’s London, 2016.

On the ocean: the Mediterranean and the Atlantic from prehistory to AD 1500, 2017.

Our Black sons matter: mothers talk about fears, sorrows, and hopes, 2016.

The Oxford handbook of religion and race in American history, 2018.

Pandora’s box: a history of the First World War, 2018.

President McKinley, 2017.

The Second Seminole War and the limits of American aggression, 2018.

Sediments of time: on possible histories, 2018.

A short history of the hundred years war, 2018.

State of repression: Iraq under Saddam Hussein, 2018.

Troy: myth, city, icon, 2018.

Undocumented lives: the untold story of Mexican migration, 2018.

W.E.B. Du Bois’s data portraits: visualizing Black America: the color line at the turn of the twentieth century, 2018.

Language and Literature
Beasts at bedtime: revealing the environmental wisdom in children’s literature, 2018.

The Bloomsbury introduction to children’s and young adult literature, 2018.

Elements of surprise: our mental limits and the satisfactions of plot, 2018.

GOETHE: life as a work of art., 2018.

An introduction to Chinese poetry: from the Canon of poetry to the lyrics of the Song dynasty, 2017.

The making of the Odyssey, 2014.

Reading Jane Austen, 2017.

Repairing the broken surface of talk: managing problems in speaking, hearing, and understanding in conversation / Repairing the broken surface of talk: managing problems in speaking, hearing, and understanding in conversation, 2018.

The social origins of language, 2018.

Solzhenitsyn: the historical-spiritual destinies of Russia and the West, 2017.

Tact: aesthetic liberalism and the essay form in nineteenth-century Britain, 2018.

Tolkien: maker of Middle-Earth, 2018.

Typeset in the future: typography and design in science fiction movies, 2018.

Law
The curse of bigness: antitrust in the new Gilded Age, 2018.

Hate: why we should resist it with free speech, not censorship, 2018.

Scalia speaks: reflections on law, faith, and life well lived, 2017.

Seeking accountability for the unlawful use of force, 2018.

Medicine
Addiction and change: how addictions develop and addicted people recover, 2018.

Clinical assessment recommendations, 2015.

Life’s work: from the trenches, a moral argument for choice, 2017.

Overcoming opioid addiction: the authoritative medical guide for patients, families, doctors, and therapists, 2018.

Prelude to hospice: Florence Wald, dying people and their families, 2018.

The science of addiction: from neurobiology to treatment, 2018.

Music
Beethoven & freedom, 2017.

Historians on Hamilton: how a blockbuster musical is restaging America’s past, 2018.

The Tchaikovsky papers: unlocking the family archive, 2018.

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Action versus contemplation: why an ancient debate still matters, 2018.

Aesthetics of the familiar: everyday life and world-making, 2017.

Bound: essays on free will and responsibility, 2015.

Case conceptualization and effective interventions: assessing and treating mental, emotional and behavioral disorders, 2016.

Christian: the politics of a word in America, 2018.

Christianity: the first three thousand years, 2010.

The craft of creativity, 2018.

Dharma: the Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh traditions of India, 2017.

The emotional foundations of personality: a neurobiological and evolutionary approach, 2018.

Evolving brains, emerging gods: early humans and the origins of religion, 2017.

Finding ourselves after Darwin: conversations on the image of God, original sin, and the problem of evil, 2018.

A guide to the world of dreams: an integrative approach to dreamwork, 2017.

The history of animals: a philosophy, 2018.

How fear works: culture of fear in the twenty-first century, 2018.

The invention of religion: faith and covenant in the book of Exodus, 2018.

The Jewish Bible: a material history, 2017.

John Wesley: optimist of grace, 2018.

Managing your research data and documentation, 2018.

The monastery and the microscope: conversations with the Dalai Lama on mind, mindfulness, and the Nature of Reality, 2017.

The nature of human creativity, 2018.

Nietzsche’s final teaching, 2017.

On Descartes’ passive thought: the myth of Cartesian dualism, 2018.

Pantheon: a new history of Roman religion, 2018.

A philosophy for the science of well-being, 2017.

Post-truth, 2018.

Psychological science and Christian faith: insights and enrichments from constructive dialogue, 2018.

Russian cosmism, 2018.

Then they came for me: Martin Niemöller, the pastor who defied the Nazis, 2018.

What did Jesus look like?, 2018.

Why we need religion, 2018.

Political Science
America, Aristotle, and the politics of a middle class, 2018.

Civic hope: how ordinary Americans keep democracy alive, 2018.

How to rig an election, 2018.

The price of prestige: conspicuous consumption in international relations, 2018.

Reign of appearances: the misery and splendor of the public sphere, 2018. 

Science
The ark and beyond: the evolution of zoo and aquarium conservation, 2018.

Ethics and practice in science communication, 2018.

Paradoxes of time travel, 2018.

Shapeshifters: a journey through the changing human body, 2018.

Universe in creation: a new understanding of the big bang and the emergence of life, 2018.

Worldviews: an introduction to the history and philosophy of science, 2018. 

Social Sciences
Banana cowboys: the United Fruit Company and the culture of corporate colonialism, 2018.

Building nature’s market: the business and politics of natural foods, 2017.

Collective choice and social welfare, 2017.

Cultural evolution: people’s motivations are changing, and reshaping the world, 2018.

Early medieval Britain: the rebirth of towns in the post-Roman West, 2018.

Hammer, sickle, and soil: the Soviet drive to collectivize agriculture, 2017.

The mystery of the Kibbutz: egalitarian principles in a capitalist world, 2018.

The open sea: the economic life of the ancient Mediterranean world from the Iron Age to the rise of Rome, 2018.

Philosophy of race: an introduction, 2018.

The political history of American food aid: an uneasy benevolence, 2017.

Ramp hollow: the ordeal of appalachia., 2018.

Regulating the lives of women: social welfare policy from colonial times to the present, 2018.

Valley of genius: the uncensored history of Silicon Valley, as told by the hackers, founders, and freaks who made it boom, 2018.

Technology
Best before: the evolution and future of processed food, 2018.

The craft of scientific writing, 2018.

How the Internet happened: from Netscape to the iPhone, 2018. 

DVDs
2010 : the year we make contact, 2010.

30 Rock. Season 1, 2007.

30 Rock. Season 2, 2008.

30 Rock. Season 3, 2009.

30 Rock. Season 4, 2010.

30 Rock. Season 5, 2011.

30 Rock. Season 6, 2012.

30 Rock. Season 7, the final season, 2013.

The big bang theory. The complete eleventh season, 2018.

Eight days a week : the touring years, 2016.

Help!, 2007.

Magical mystery tour, 2012.

The office : the complete series, 2014.

Parks and recreation. [Complete series], 2015. 

Reference
A Greek-English lexicon by Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, Henry Stuart Jones, Roderick McKenzie, 1996.

The Lord’s Prayer (Interpretation: resources for the use of Scripture in the church), 2018.

The Ten commandments (Interpretation: resources for the use of Scripture in the church), 2009.

Theological dictionary of the Old Testament, v. 16, 2018.

Office Reference
The SBL handbook of style, 2014.

Donated Gift Items to the Milligan Libraries
American intellectual tradition: a sourcebook [two volumes].

An American journal, 1839-40.

The American Puritan imagination; essays in revaluation.

American Puritanism: faith and practice.

The American Revolution; a concise history and interpretation.

Andrew Jackson: the border captain.

Andrew Jackson, symbol for an age.

Anglican and Puritan thinking: papers read at the 1977 conference.

The Atlantic civilization: eighteenth-century origins.

The baron of Beacon Hill: a biography of John Hancock.

Benjamin Franklin in American thought and culture, 1790-1990.

The best poor man’s country: a geographical study of early southeastern Pennsylvania.

The birth of modern America, 1820-1850.

The birth of the Republic, 1763-89.

The buccaneers of America: a true account of the most remarkable assaults committed of late years upon the coasts of the West Indies by the buccaneers of Jamaica and Tortuga (both English and French) Wherein are contained more especially the unparalleled exploits of Sir Henry Morgan ….

Captain John Smith’s America; selections from his writings.

Caribbean: sea of the new world.

Charismatic experiences in history.

Christopher Gadsden and the American Revolution.

Churches of old New England, their architecture and their architects, their pastors and their people.

Cities in revolt; urban life in America, 1743-1776.

Colonial America: essays in politics and social development.

The colonial craftsman.

The colonial physician & other essays.

The colonies in transition, 1660-1713.

Constitutional development in the South Atlantic States, 1776-1860: a study in the evolution of democracy.

Contrast and connection: Bicentennial essays in Anglo-American history.

Council minutes, 1638-1649.

Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV.

Country arts in early American homes.

Daniel Webster and Jacksonian democracy.

Democracy in the Connecticut frontier town of Kent.

A description of Kentucky in North America.

Detailed reports on the Salzburger Emigrants who settled in America: vol 5: 1738.

The Devil in Massachusetts: a modern enquiry into the Salem witch trials.

The diary of the American revolution, 1775-1781.

Diary of an early American boy, Noah Blake, 1805.

Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803: a biography [two volumes].

The eighteenth century background: studies on the idea of nature in the thought of the period.

Eliphalet Nott.

The Elizabethans and America.

Essays in American colonial history.

The establishment of the European hegemony, 1415-1715: trade and exploration in the age of the Renaissance.

The evolution of American society, 1700-1815: an interdisciplinary analysis.

The fathers of the towns: leadership and community structure in eighteenth-century New England.

Fighting for liberty and virtue: political and cultural wars in eighteenth-century America.

The first American Revolution: the American Colonies on the eve of independence.

The founding of New England.

Francis Preston Blair.

The French in the Mississippi Valley.

Frontier parish: an account of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and the Anglican Church in America: drawn from the records of the Bishop of London.

Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne: misadventures of an English general in the revolution.

George the Third.

God’s messengers: religious leadership in colonial New England, 1700-1750.

The golden age of colonial culture.

Gouverneur Morris.

The Governor’s lady.

I believe; the Christian’s creed.

Identity unknown: rediscovering seven American women artists.

In quest of the Northwest passage.

In search of early America: the William & Mary quarterly, 1943-1993.

Interpreting colonial America: selected readings.

The Jacksonian era.

The Jacksonian era: 1828-1848.

Jacques Marquette, S.J., 1637-1675.

John C. Calhoun.

John Carroll of Baltimore, founder of the American Catholic hierarchy.

Jonathan Edwards, art and the sense of the heart.

Jonathan Fisher, Maine parson, 1768-1847.

Josiah Quincy, 1772-1864; the last Federalist.

Journey through a part of the United States of North America in the years 1844 to 1846.

A journey through the years, an autobiography. [two copies donated]

Kiva, cross, and crown: the Pecos Indians and New Mexico, 1540-1840.

Lamy of Santa Fe: his life and times.

Lincoln’s lieutenants: the high command of the Army of the Potomac.

Literary democracy: the declaration of cultural independence in America.

Lopez of Newport; colonial American merchant prince.

Lord of the Mohawks: a biography of Sir William Johnson.

The making of Victorian values: decency and dissent in Britain, 1789-1837.

The maritime history of Massachusetts, 1783-1860.

Martin Van Buren and the making of the Democratic Party.

Maryland’s revolution of government, 1689-1692.

Massachusetts, Colony to Commonwealth: documents on the formation of the constitution, 1775-1780.

Meetinghouse Hill, 1630-1783.

Men in rebellion: higher governmental leaders and the coming of the American Revolution.

The merry heart: reflections on reading, writing, and the world of books.

Mistress of Riversdale: the plantation letters of Rosalie Stier Calvert, 1795-1821.

The navigation acts and the American Revolution.

New England’s generation: the great migration and the formation of society and culture in the seventeenth century.

The origins of American politics.

The other John Adams, 1705-1740.

The Otis family in Provincial and Revolutionary Massachusetts.

Our earliest colonial settlements: their diversities of origin and later characteristics.

Our visible God.

Paine.

Paul Revere & the world he lived in.

Peaceable kingdoms: New England towns in the eighteenth century.

Prelude to Civil War; the nullification controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836.

Privilege and prerogative: New York’s provincial elite, 1710-1776.

The Puritan experiment in the New World.

The Puritan origins of the American self.

The Puritan revolution and educational thought: background for reform.

Puritanism in early America.

Puritans: [a sourcebook of their writings] [two volumes].

The pursuit of happiness.

Raleigh and the British Empire.

Rebels and gentlemen; Philadelphia in the age of Franklin.

Register of the Provincial Secretary [three volumes].

The reinterpretation of early American history: essays in honor of John Edwin Pomfret.

The remarkable education of John Quincy Adams.

Reverend Abiel Abbot of Peterborough, New Hampshire.

Revivalism and separatism in New England, 1740-1800: Strict Congregationalist and Separate Baptists in the Great Awakening.

Roger Williams: his contribution to the American tradition.

The Royal Navy and the northwest coast of North America, 1810-1914: a study of British maritime ascendancy.

Rufus Choate, the wizard of the law.

Samuel Seabury, 1729-1796; a study in the high church tradition.

Scandalmonger: a novel.

A season of youth: the American Revolution and the historical imagination.

See Delphi and die: a Marcus Didius Falco novel.

Selected essays, 1963-1975.

The selected work of Tom Paine & Citizen Tom Paine.

Seventeenth century North America.

The shattered synthesis; New England Puritanism before the Great Awakening.

The Spanish-American frontier, 1783-1795; the westward movement and the Spanish retreat in the Mississippi Valley.

Spirit stones: the ancient art of the scholar’s rock.

The Swamp Fox, Francis Marion,

Tall tales from Old Smoky.

A theological interpretation of American history.

Toward a new society: American thought and culture, 1800-1830.

Voyages and discoveries; the principal navigations, voyages, traffiques, and discoveries of the English Nation.

William Dampier.

William Penn.

The works of Jonathan Edwards [two volumes].

Yankees and God.


First “Escape from Welshimer” event a breakout success!

Wikipedia defines an escape room as “a physical adventure game in which players solve a series of puzzles and riddles using clues, hints, and strategy to complete the objectives at hand.” Escape rooms have become a popular form of entertainment in the 2010s, developed from and often incorporating elements from long familiar group activities such as scavenger hunts and haunted houses.

Inspired by a presentation at Mars Hill University (North Carolina) where the escape room concept was used as a first-year student experience to instruct about the library, Research and Instruction Librarian Mary Jackson sought to develop a similar experience here at Milligan College but open it to all students, faculty, staff, and their families. “It is difficult to educate faculty, staff and students about some of the more unique aspects of the library and its collections,” says Jackson. “Students really enjoy having faculty participate with them at campus events. The escape room would allow the library staff to educate and interact with participants, including faculty, staff and students in a fun and entertaining way.”

Escape from Welshimer was the result. The event was held in the evening on Friday, January 18 at the P.H. Welshimer Memorial Library. Advanced signups were encouraged as news of the event was posted on campus bulletin boards, Milligan Libraries’ social media channels, and Milligan Today. 51 participants, which included 34 undergraduate students, 3 graduate students, 10 faculty/staff adults, and 4 children, were divided into 11 groups of 4 or 5 persons arrayed at tables on the main floor of the library supplied with a large packet of items, a laptop computer, and a locked wooden treasure chest. Each group was given a challenge to identify a Milligan College personage and several popular culture references from either the 1970s, 80s, or 90s using Welshimer Library books, media, and archival materials.

The challenges required each group to move throughout the building to collect items, respond to clues, and solve puzzles that would enable them to successfully unlock their treasure chests. Inside the chests were custom created Escape from Welshimer buttons, Milligan Buffalo stickers, and prize redemption coupons. As each group successfully completed their challenge, they were directed to the circulation desk where each person was asked to fill out a brief survey of their experience. They could then use their coupon to receive either a full-size candy bar or (especially popular) Airheads Xtremes as a prize.

As a final activity, group photos were taken to document the event. Everyone successfully “escaped” in under an hour’s time.

Based on survey results, Escape from Welshimer was a breakout success. One participant, sophomore student Audrey Johns said, “It was really fun. I liked solving the puzzles. What an inventive way to learn where things are located in the library!” Mary Jackson added, “The best part was seeing everyone having so much fun moving around the library, working together with friends, and just having a great time. I think it says a lot that several people said the only negative was that it was too short. That is success in my book.”

All Welshimer Library staff were involved in making this event a success through brainstorming, offering feedback, and providing advanced testing. But special shout-outs go to Research and Instruction Librarian Mary Jackson for carrying the lion’s share of planning and logistics, User Services Librarian Jude Morrissey for creating the wonderful event graphics, and Archivist Katie Banks for constructing the buttons and serving as event photographer. Director of Libraries Gary Daught strongly endorsed this event. He was (is!) appreciative of the brilliant creativity and hard work of his library colleagues, and very pleased by the turn-out. “Events like this highlight Milligan Libraries’ active engagement with our learning community. We want to be known by students and faculty as skilled academic professionals who are both competent and trustworthy. But we also want to be known as real people who are approachable and like to have fun. I think the latter serves and strengthens the former. We are looking forward to doing another library escape room in the future.”

Materials and prizes were paid for from an IDEO Grant that Milligan Libraries received from the Bowen Central Library of Appalachia at the Appalachian College Association (ACA). The IDEO, or Innovation & Enrichment Development Opportunities Grant is designed “to assist libraries in partnering with campus constituencies in creative and innovative ways for [the] campus to expand knowledge about library services.” Milligan Libraries thanks the ACA for this award that helped make Escape from Welshimer possible.