Milligan Library Life

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

What can 36 cents get you?

FrenchCokeNot much, really. It can’t buy you a postage stamp. Or a song on iTunes. Or a Kindle Single. Or a Ferrari Testarossa. It used to be enough to buy a French Coke, but probably not anymore. 36 cents can’t even get you a theoretical 37-cent coin that would solve all our coinage inefficiencies. But your 36 cents will definitely get us closer to a fully renovated Library!

Our campaign donations now total $8,968.50, thanks to the $146.40 donated in June 2013 by our donors. The only name in the donation cube was Anna Lester, a 6th-grade Bible Bowler from Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, Ky. Thanks, Anna!

How can you help? Bring your loose change (or cash or checks!) and drop it into the plastic cube at the Circulation Desk. When we reach our $10,000 goal, we’ll allow you, the contributors, to name a study room whatever you like in the newly renovated Library!** Every penny helps! (If you’re not familiar with the Campaign, check out original post on the library blog.) This summer, we’ll do a count of new contributions around the first of each month and announce the results here, as well as on Twitter, Facebook, and MilliganToday.

If you’re doing some belated Spring cleaning, we will also take your unwanted but gently used books, textbooks, DVDs, Blu-Rays, and audiobooks for our Million Pennies Book Drive, which also benefits the Campaign–in June alone, we made $133.90 from the sale of Library discards and donations alone. There are donation boxes in the library lobby and the hallway of the FOB. Thanks again, and please ask a member of library staff if you have any questions!
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** A note from Gary F. Daught, Director of Library Services: It is exciting to think that we are so close to our goal. Obviously, the Library renovation project will require significantly more than $10,000 to complete, and it is still awaiting major funding even after the initial phase of Milligan College’s Forward Ever capital campaign was successfully concluded in June 2011. The Million Pennies Campaign was launched concurrent with Forward Ever to engage our users–particularly students–in this project in a way that was meaningful, accessible, and concrete. It is a small but tangible way for everyone to show their support for the Milligan College Library. I want to ‘second’ Jeff Harbin in thanking everyone who has contributed their pennies to date. Let’s see if we can reach our goal before the end of the summer!


If you’ve got 44 cents, you can help!

Our totals keep rising and the amount-per-person keeps dropping! If you’ve got 44 cents, you can help us finish the Million Pennies Campaign by the end of the summer! Or you can buy one of those infamous The Simpsons postage stamps from 2009. It’s up to you, really.

Our campaign donations now total $8,822.10, thanks to the $339.92 donated in May 2013 by our donors Lindsay Eckert, Clint Holloway, and Gabe Rees. How can you help? Bring your loose change (or cash or checks!) and drop it into the plastic cube at the Circulation Desk. When we reach our $10,000 goal, we’ll allow you, the contributors, to name a study room whatever you like in the newly renovated Library!** Every penny helps! (If you’re not familiar with the Campaign, check out original post on the library blog.) This summer, we’ll do a count of new contributions around the first of each month and announce the results here, as well as on Twitter, Facebook, and MilliganToday.

If you’re doing some belated Spring cleaning, we will also take your unwanted but gently used books, textbooks, DVDs, Blu-Rays, and audiobooks for our Million Pennies Book Drive, which also benefits the Campaign–in May alone, we made $53.42 from the sale of Library discards and donations alone. There are donation boxes in the library lobby and the hallway of the FOB. Thanks again, and please ask a member of library staff if you have any questions!
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** A note from Gary F. Daught, Director of Library Services: It is exciting to think that we are so close to our goal. Obviously, the Library renovation project will require significantly more than $10,000 to complete, and it is still awaiting major funding even after the initial phase of Milligan College’s Forward Ever capital campaign was successfully concluded in June 2011. The Million Pennies Campaign was launched concurrent with Forward Ever to engage our users–particularly students–in this project in a way that was meaningful, accessible, and concrete. It is a small but tangible way for everyone to show their support for the Milligan College Library. I want to ‘second’ Jeff Harbin in thanking everyone who has contributed their pennies to date. Let’s see if we can reach our goal before the end of the school year!


Latecomer to the Star Trek Galactic Bandwagon

I have never been interested in the Star Trek franchise. For some reason, this is one series I just never got into. In a trivia game, the only Star Trek-related names I would be able to come up with would be Kirk and Spock. All the Star Trek humor from The Big Bang Theory shoots right over my head. Klingon Boggle. What?

Being the movie fan that I am, I thought the new Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) movie trailers looked pretty awesome. But I had no clue what it would be about. I had not seen the first Star Trek (2009) re-make because I figured it would be very hard for me to follow.

Recently, I finally decided that watching the new Star Trek movies would be worth my time. So one Sunday I sat in front of the television with my husband and some of our friends and watched Star Trek (the 2009 Chris Pine version). I loved it. The movie follows James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) and his rise and fall at Starfleet. In the film, Kirk, Spock, and the rest of the crew of the starship Enterprise embark on a fast-paced adventure to find a way to save Earth, and themselves.

The screenwriters did a good job rebooting the Star Trek universe for both franchise gurus/fanatics (“Trekkies”) and those of us who had their first experience by watching this movie. The story is well told, well-acted, and easy to follow. There were a few times where I would look at my husband Adam and say, “What?” But the movie would go on to answer my question. If you find yourself confused, just hang on and the movie will explain itself.

After watching the first movie, we then went to the theater and saw the sequel, which was equally as good. So if you are looking for something to do this weekend and have been hesitant about jumping into Star Trek, I say jump-in with both feet! You can start by checking out Star Trek from the Milligan College Library. I highly recommend it.

“Live long and prosper.” (*)

Milligan Lending Call Number for Star Trek: PN1995.9.S694 S73 2009


New Books and Media Received (April 2013)

The following Book and DVD (2 items) were received into the Library collection through the Acquisitions Budget during April 2013:

Maddie on things : a super serious project about dogs and physics / by Theron Humphrey. San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 2013.

Shakespeare uncovered [videorecording]. [United States] : PBS, 2013.

The following Books (5 items) were received into the Library’s bestsellers collection during April 2013:

Everything is perfect when you’re a liar / Kelly Oxford. New York : It Books, [2013], 2013.

Gulp : adventures on the alimentary canal / Mary Roach. New York : W.W. Norton, c2013.

Lean in : women, work, and the will to lead / Sheryl Sandberg. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.

Vegetables please / Carolyn Humphries. London ; New York : DK Pub., 2013.

Your survival instinct is killing you : retrain your brain to conquer fear, make better decisions, and thrive in the 21st century / Marc Schoen with Kristin Loberg. New York : Hudson Street Press, 2013.

The following Books, CDs, and DVDs (37 items) were received into the Library collection as Gift Donations during April 2013:

Atheism : a philosophical justification Michael Martin. Philadelphia Temple University Press 1990.

Atlantic : great sea battles, heroic discoveries, titanic storms, and a vast ocean of a million stories / Simon Winchester. New York : Harper, c2010.

Beethoven: impressions by his contemporaries. Edited by O. G. Sonneck. New York, Dover Publications [1967, c1954].

Believers : a journey into evangelical America / Jeffery L. Sheler. New York : Viking, 2006.

The Bible makes sense / Walter Brueggemann. Cincinnati, Ohio : St. Anthony Messenger Press, c2003.

Therapy for the sane : how philosophy can change your life / Lou Marinoff. New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2004.

Booknotes : on American character / [compiled by] Brian Lamb. New York : PublicAffairs, c2004.

Can fantasy carry the Gospel? [sound recording]. St. Paul, MN : Luther Prodcutions ; [St. Paul, MN] : Seraphim Communications, 2005.

Doubt : a history : the great doubters and their legacy of innovation, from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson / Jennifer Michael Hecht. New York, NY : HarperSanFrancisco, 2004.

Drama : an actor’s education / John Lithgow. New York : Harper, c2011.

Enter the wardrobe [videorecording]. St. Paul, MN : Luther Prodcutions ; [St. Paul, MN] : Seraphim Communications, 2005.

Fuzzy-set social science / Charles C. Ragin. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.

The Gospel of Mary of Magdala : Jesus and the first woman apostle / Karen L. King. Santa Rosa, Calif. : Polebridge Press, 2003.

Grassroots post-modernism : remaking the soil of cultures / Gustavo Esteva and Madhu Suri Prakash. London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by St. Martin’s Press, 1998.

Imagined London : a tour of the world’s greatest fictional city / Anna Quindlen. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2004.

The immigration crisis : immigrants, aliens and the Bible / James K. Hoffmeier. Wheaton, Ill. : Crossway Books, 2009.

In sacred loneliness : the plural wives of Joseph Smith / Todd Compton. Salt Lake City : Signature Books, 1997.

J. S. Bach / by Albert Schweitzer; English translation by Ernest Newman. Vol 1. New York : Dover Publications, 1966.

Job, a comedy of justice / Robert A. Heinlein. New York : Ballantine Books, 1984.

King Lear [videorecording (DVD)] / a co-production of The Performance Company, Iambic Productions Limited, Thirteen/WNET New York and Channel 4 in association with NHK ; a Royal Shakespeare company production ; by William Shakespeare ; produced by Richard Price and Chris Hunt ; directed by Trevor Nunn and Chris Hunt. [New York, NY] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, 2009, c2008.

The Koran, a very short introduction / Michael Cook. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

London : the biography / Peter Ackroyd. New York : Nan A. Talese, c2001.

Mission possible : reaching the next generation through the small church  / Terry W. Dorsett. Bloomington, Ind.  : CrossBooks, 2012.

The outside world / Tova Mirvis. New York : Vintage Books, 2005.

The pleasures and sorrows of work / Alain de Botton. London : Hamish Hamilton, 2009.

The rivals / Richard Brinsley Sheridan ; the Bristol Old Vic production ; producer, Robert Marshall ; director, Rachel Kavanaugh. West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, [2005].

The scarlet letter [videorecording] / a WGBH/Boston production ; produced and directed by Rick Hauser ; adapted for television by Allan Knee and Alvin Sapinsley. Boston : WGBH, [2003].

Serving up love–past and present : a unique collection of recipes, 1930-1988 / compiled by the Ladies Mission Group of Hopwood Memorial Christian Church. Milligan College, TN : Hopwood Memorial Christian Church, 1988.

Sex, art, and American culture : essays / Camille Paglia. New York : Vintage Books, 1992.

She stoops to conquer [videorecording] / by Oliver Goldsmith ; Sky Arts ; Capriol Films ; produced by Averil Brennan ; adapted and directed by Tony Britten. Silver Spring, MD : Acorn Media, [2008].

Snail Shell Cave / Larry E. Matthews and Bob Biddix. Huntsville, Ala. : National Speleological Society, 2012.

Status anxiety / Alain de Botton. New York : Pantheon Books c2004.

A stone for a pillow / Madeleine L’Engle. Wheaton, Ill. : H. Shaw, c1986.

Storm warning : whether global recession, terrorist threats, or devastating natural disasters, these ominous shadows must bring us back to the gospel / Billy Graham. Nashville, Tenn. : Thomas Nelson, c2010.

The temple of my familiar / Alice Walker. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1989.

This business of music : the definitive guide to the music industry / M. William Krasilovsky and Sidney Schemel ; contributions by John M. Gross. New York : Billboard Books, 2003.

Three who made a revolution : a biographical history / by Bertram D. Wolfe. New York : Stein and Day, 1984, c1964.


Got 55 cents?

Bad Joke Eel is on to something. If you’ve got 55 cents, you can help us end the Million Pennies Campaign by the end of the semester. And you don’t have to sit through “Candy Shop,” “How You Remind Me,” or any other cringe-worthy songs from your childhood!

Our campaign donations now total $8,482.18, thanks to the flabbergasting total of $643.00 donated in the past week! Thanks to our donors Darcie DeLong, Kate Handzlik, Clint Holloway, Shae Judge, and Matt Rees. How can you help? Bring your loose change (or cash or checks!) and drop it into the plastic cube at the Circulation Desk. When we reach our $10,000 goal, we’ll allow you, the contributors, to name a study room whatever you like in the newly renovated Library!** Every penny helps! (If you’re not familiar with the Campaign, check out original post on the library blog.) We’ll do a weekly count of new contributions every Tuesday and announce the results here, as well as on Twitter, Facebook, and MilliganToday.

Don’t have 55 cents to your name? We will also take your unwanted but gently used books, textbooks, DVDs, Blu-Rays, and audiobooks for our Million Pennies Book Drive, which also benefits the Campaign. There’s a donation box in the library lobby. Thanks again, and please ask a member of library staff if you have any questions!
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** A note from Gary F. Daught, Director of Library Services: It is exciting to think that we are so close to our goal. Obviously, the Library renovation project will require significantly more than $10,000 to complete, and it is still awaiting major funding even after the initial phase of Milligan College’s Forward Ever capital campaign was successfully concluded in June 2011. The Million Pennies Campaign was launched concurrent with Forward Ever to engage our users–particularly students–in this project in a way that was meaningful, accessible, and concrete. It is a small but tangible way for everyone to show their support for the Milligan College Library. I want to ‘second’ Jeff Harbin in thanking everyone who has contributed their pennies to date. Let’s see if we can reach our goal before the end of the school year!