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

Million Pennies Campaign raises $160.81 in October 2012!

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We’re proud to announce that you, our loyal library users, contributed $160.81 in cash and change to our Million Pennies Campaign in October 2012. We have now raised $7,191.06 since the start of the campaign in April 2010. Thanks for your generosity!  We received an extra bump this month from donations by authors participating in Celebrating Milligan Authors, our 2012 Homecoming event.

The Library staff would like to extend a hearty thank you to October’s donors: Tim & Jamie Hatfield, Jonathan Herd, Clint Holloway, Jen Patten, Josh Ramsaran, Gabe Rees, Erin Roland, and Adam Tomlinson. Adam Tomlinson is the winner of our monthly drawing. He will receive the hardcover The Brick Testament: Stories from the Book of Genesis. Congratulations, Adam!

Bring your loose change (or cash or checks) and drop it into the plastic cube at the Circulation Desk. If you’d like us to thank you by name, please write your name on one of the slips of paper in the tray next to the cube. We’ll let everyone know about your generosity. Next month’s prize is the 1999 hardcover White Oleander by Janet Fitch. We’ll draw a winner on December 3rd from the names we’ve collected. When we reach our goal, we’ll allow you, the contributors, to name a study room whatever you like. Every penny helps! (If you’re not familiar with the Campaign, check out original post on the library blog.)

Incidentally, we will also take your unwanted but gently used books, DVDs, Blu-Rays, and audiobooks for our Million Pennies Book Drive. There’s a donation box in the library lobby. Thanks again!

Transferring e-books from EBSCO to your mobile device or e-reader

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In my previous post, I described the procedure for downloading EBSCOhost e-books to your computer for offline reading. In this post I will describe how you can transfer a downloaded book to a mobile device–a smartphone, tablet computer, or dedicated e-book reader.

Before proceeding, make sure that you have successfully completed all the steps described in my previous post and listed here:

  1. You have created an Adobe ID
  2. You have downloaded and installed the Adobe Digital Editions application software on your computer
  3. You have created a My EBSCOhost account, and
  4. You have downloaded an EBSCOhost e-book into Adobe Digital Editions

Adobe Digital Editions negotiates copy protection for EBSCOhost e-books on your computer or your mobile device. In order to successfully transfer an EBSCOhost e-book to a mobile device that device must either natively communicate with Adobe Digital Editions when attached to your computer, or allow the installation of an application that can communicate with Adobe Digital Editions on its behalf. Dedicated e-book readers such as the Barnes & Noble Nook, Sony Reader, or Kobo eReader support Adobe Digital Editions natively. Unfortunately, Amazon E-Ink Kindles do not currently provide support for Adobe Digital Editions. Many smartphones and tablets, including Apple iOS devices (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad) and Android devices (including Amazon Kindle Fire tablets with some special tweaking), work with Adobe Digital Editions through a third-party application that can be installed on the device. I will describe the transfer procedure on a Barnes & Noble Nook and an Apple iPod touch. The specific procedure for your device may differ from these, but the following instructions will give you a good idea for what is involved. Please contact a librarian if you would like assistance, or if you run into any difficulty.

Transferring an EBSCOhost e-book to a Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch e-reader

Step 1: Authorize the device in Adobe Digital Editions

Launch Adobe Digital Editions on your computer then attach your e-reader device to your computer with the supplied USB cable. Adobe Digital Editions should automatically detect a compatible e-reader. You will be prompted to authorize the use of the device with Adobe Digital Editions (which may include entering your Adobe ID). In this screenshot notice “NOOK” is detected under Devices in the left column:

Step 2: Drag an e-book to your device

To install an e-book to the device simply select the desired title from the Bookshelf in the right column and drag it onto the device icon as shown here:

Step 3: Open and read the book on your device

Adobe Digital Editions will notify you when the e-book installation is complete. Eject the device from your computer. Browse and launch the e-book from the device’s book Library. Start reading!

Step 4: Remove an expired e-book from your device

As with EBSCOhost e-books originally downloaded to your computer, when the checkout period expires you will no longer be able to open the book on your device. At this point, you may choose to delete the expired file from your device’s book Library. Re-attach the device to your computer, launch Adobe Digital Editions, highlight “NOOK” under Devices in the left column, select the expired title from the Bookshelf in the right column, Control-Click the book icon and select “Remove from Library” from the drop down menu.

Transferring an EBSCOhost e-book to an Apple iOS or Google Android device

Unlike the previous procedure where a compatible dedicated e-reader (like the Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch) is immediately recognizable by Adobe Digital Editions when connected to your computer, transferring EBSCOhost e-books to a smartphone or tablet requires a separate application capable of communicating with Adobe Digital Editions and serving as a book reader. You also need a transfer method that the reader application can understand.

As with downloading EBSCOhost e-books to your computer, the procedure for preparing your mobile device for transferring e-books is a bit complicated. However, you shouldn’t have too much trouble if you follow these instructions closely. The first three steps only have to be done one time. Feel free to contact a librarian if you would like assistance, or if you run into any difficulty. (Note: Amazon’s Kindle Fire is an Android-based tablet. However, installation of applications on this device is a bit more complicated than most. Special instructions are at the bottom.)

Step 1: Create a Dropbox account

You need a fairly easy and straightforward way to transfer a downloaded EBSCOhost e-book in Adobe Digital Editions on your computer to your mobile device. Dropbox is a handy cloud storage service that can be used to facilitate this transfer. Go to http://www.dropbox.com to create a free account. (The free account comes with 2 gigabytes of storage–more than enough for routine e-book file transfers.) Write down your Dropbox email address and password.

You can use the Dropbox web interface on your computer to facilitate file uploads to your account, or you can download a dedicated desktop application (for Windows or Mac). However, it is strongly recommended that you download and install the mobile version of the Dropbox application to your mobile device (choose the appropriate version here). You only have to do this step once.

Step 2: Download and install Bluefire Reader to your device

The process for transferring EBSCOhost e-books to a compatible Apple iOS or Google Android device requires that you first download and install an application that can be authorized to communicate with Adobe Digital Editions and function as a book reader. Bluefire Reader is a free application that is excellent for these purposes. You can use Bluefire Reader to open PDF and EPUB files on your mobile device. Download and install the Apple iOS or Google Android version as appropriate. You only have to do this step once.

Step 3: Launch and authorize Bluefire Reader on your device

I am using Bluefire Reader on an Apple iPod touch here. Launch Bluefire Reader on your device and select “Info” from the application menu. Tap the “Authorize” button in the Enable Adobe eBooks box. This will bring up a screen for entering your Adobe ID account information. Tap “Authorize.”

 

Your device is now authorized to open and read e-books downloaded to Adobe Digital Editions on your computer. You only have to do this step once.

You now have everything in place to transfer and read EBSCOhost e-books on your mobile device. Let’s transfer an e-book now!

Step 4: Upload an EBSCOhost e-book to your Dropbox account

a) Go back to your computer. I downloaded a new e-book from EBSCOhost into Adobe Digital Editions following the instructions in Step 4 from my previous post. The process went much smoother the second time around!

b) Although the e-book loads into Adobe Digital Editions, the e-book file is actually stored in another folder on you computer. On a Windows PC browse to this folder is called “My Digital Editions,” which is located in your “My Documents” folder. Notice the e-book file titled “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin” (Note: Although the file is a PDF, it will not open as normal in Adobe Reader because it is copy-protected. Adobe Digital Editions registered with your Adobe ID enables you to open this copy-protected file.):

On an Apple Mac computer, the same file is found in the “Digital Editions” folder in your user “Documents” folder:

c) Sign into your Dropbox account. For this demonstration I am using the web interface at http://www.dropbox.com. When you sign in the first time you will see three folders.

d) For this demonstration I am going to upload the e-book file into the “Public” folder in my Dropbox. Double-click the “Public” folder to open it. Click on the “Upload” button (it is the document icon with the blue arrow pointing up to the far left of the “Search Dropbox” search box). This brings up the “Upload to ‘Public'” dialog box.

e) Click the blue “Choose files” button. Browse to the “My Digital Editions” (Windows) or “Digital Editions” (Mac) folder and locate the e-book file you would like to upload as described above. Highlight the file and click “Open”. (If the upload appears stalled, click the “basic uploader” link and try again.) The file is processed and uploaded into (in this case) your “Public” folder. When the upload is complete you will receive this message:

Clear the dialog box by clicking “Done”.

f) You should now see the uploaded file in your Dropbox “Public” folder.

Since Dropbox stores your uploaded documents to the “cloud,” you can access them on any computer or device with an internet connection. This is how you will now access this e-book file and transfer it onto your mobile device.

Step 5: Launch Dropbox on your mobile device and open the EBSCOhost e-book in Bluefire Reader

a) If you haven’t already done so, download the appropriate Dropbox application version for your mobile device (e.g., Apple iOS or Google Android).

b) Launch Dropbox and sign into your account. You must have an active connection to the internet in order to access your Dropbox.

 

c) Notice the same folders in your mobile Dropbox as in the desktop or browser-based version on your computer. Remember that you uploaded your e-book to the “Public” folder. Tap “Public” to open this folder. There is your e-book!

 

d) Tap on the e-book file to download it to your device. Notice that this is a PDF file.

 

e) The e-book file download to your device appears to be complete. But notice that you don’t see anything other than the title on the screen. This is because the file is copy-protected and can only be opened by an application authorized to view Adobe Digital Editions copy-protected files. This is where Bluefire Reader comes into play. Tap the download button on the lower right of the screen (the icon with an arrow pointing down into a tray). This brings up a dialog that includes an “Open In…” button. Tap this button. You are now presented with one or more applications that may be able to open this file. Tap the “Open in Bluefire” button.

 

f) Tapping the “Open in Bluefire” button launches the the Bluefire Reader application. Notice your e-book, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin in the Library list. Tap on this title to open the book. Start reading!

 

Step 6: Remove an expired e-book from your device

As with EBSCOhost e-books originally downloaded to your computer, when the checkout period expires you will no longer be able to open the book on your device. At this point, you may choose to delete the expired file from the Library list in Bluefire Reader using the application’s Edit > Delete feature.

Special Note about installing Bluefire Reader and the Dropbox mobile app on an Amazon Kindle Fire tablet

I mentioned above that Amazon’s E-Ink Kindles currently do not support e-books copy-protected using Adobe Digital Editions. Consequently, it is not possible to read e-books downloaded from EBSCOhost on your E-Ink Kindle.

Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablets run a version of the Google Android operating system. Consequently, it is possible to install Android versions of both the Bluefire Reader application and the Dropbox mobile app on your Kindle Fire. However, getting these applications on your device requires a little extra tweaking. Follow these steps to prepare your Kindle Fire (part of these steps come courtesy of the Bluefire Reader blog):

a) Tap “Settings” on your Kindle Fire (it’s the icon that looks like a gear)
b) Tap “More”
c) Scroll down until you see “Device”
d) In the Device tab, set “Allow installation of Applications” to ON, and tap OK when you see the Warning prompt
e) Using the web browser on your Kindle Fire, go to http://www.bluefirereader.com/files/ and tap on BluefireReader.apk to download the Bluefire Reader application. Tap on this file to install the application on your Kindle Fire.
f) Using the web browser on your Kindle Fire, go to http://www.dropbox.com/android and download the Dropbox Android application. This app should be labeled Dropbox.apk. Tap on this file to install the application on your Kindle Fire.
g) Return to the instructions to continue with the e-book transfer procedure.

New Books and Media Received (September 2012)

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The following Books, CDs, and DVDs (109 titles) were received into the Library collection through the Acquisitions Budget during September 2012:

40 questions about the end times / Eckhard Schnabel. Grand Rapids, MI : Kregel Publications, c2011.

ACA ethical standards casebook / Barbara Herlihy, Gerald Corey. Alexandria, VA : American Counseling Association, 2006.

Adolf Hitler / by John Toland. New York : Anchor Books, 1992.

Apocalypticism in the Bible and its world : a comprehensive introduction / Frederick J. Murphy. Grand Rapids, MI : Baker Academic, c2012.

Archaeology of the land of the Bible. Volume III, Alexander to Constantine / Eric M. Meyers and Mark A. Chancey. New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2012.

At the heart of the White Rose : letters and diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl / edited by Inge Jens ; translated from the German by J. Maxwell Brownjohn ; preface by Richard Gilman. New York : Harper & Row, c1987.

Athanasius of Alexandria : bishop, theologian, ascetic, father / David M. Gwynn. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Authentic faith : Bonhoeffer’s theological ethics in context / Heinz Eduard Todt ; edited by Ernst-Albert Scharffenorth ; translated by David Stassen and Ilse Todt ; English edition edited by Glen Harold Stassen. Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans, 2007.

Basil of Caesarea : a guide to his life and doctrine / Andrew Radde-Gallwitz. Eugene, OR : Cascade Books, c2012.

Blankets : a graphic novel / by Craig Thompson. Marietta, Ga. : Top Shelf, c2003.

Called to lead : Paul’s letters to Timothy for a new day / Anthony B. Robinson & Robert W. Wall ; [foreword by Walter Brueggemann]. Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2012.

Cheating welfare : public assistance and the criminalization of poverty. New York : New York University Press, 2012.

Chicago in Chicago [videorecording] / Image Entertainment Inc. and Primary Wave Records LLC present an IMV production ; produced by Ken Mayer ; producer, Chuck Haifley ; directed by Leon Melas. Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, c2010.

Child and adolescent development / Anita Woolfolk, Nancy E. Perry. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson, c2012.

Clearly invisible : racial passing and the color of cultural identity / Marcia Alesan Dawkins. Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2012.

A companion to late Antiquity / edited by Philip Rousseau ; with the assistance of Jutta Raithel. Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Confronting the Nazi war on Christianity : the Kulturkampf newsletters, 1936-1939 / edited and translated by Richard Bonney. Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2009.

Desperate characters / Paula Fox ; introduction by Jonathan Franzen. New York : W.W. Norton, 1999.

Dinosaurs. The complete first and second seasons [videorecording] / Jim Henson Productions ; Michael Jacobs Productions. Burbank, Calif. : Walt Disney Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2006].

Dinosaurs. The complete third and fourth seasons [videorecording] / Jim Henson Productions ; Michael Jacobs Productions ; directors, Bruce Bilson, Tom Trbovich. Burbank, Calif. : Walt Disney Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2007.

Disability and mothering : liminal spaces of embodied knowledge / edited by Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson and Jen Cellio. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2011.

A sentimental education : the story of a young man / Gustave Flaubert ; translated with an introduction and notes by Douglas Parmee. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Enchiridion or hand book of the Christian doctrine and religion : compiled (by the grace of God) from the Holy Scriptures for the benefit of all lovers of the truth / Dietrich Philip ; translated from the German and carefully compared with the Dutch (in which language the book was originally written) by A.B. Kolb. Aylmer, Ont. ; LaGrange, Ind. : Pathway Pub. Corp., 2005.

Everything I want to do is illegal / by Joel Salatin. Swoope, Va. : Polyface, c2007.

Everything is illuminated : a novel / Jonathan Safran Foer. New York : Perennial, 2003.

Everything is waiting for you : poems / by David Whyte. Langley, Wash. : Many Rivers Press, 2003.

Fire in the earth : poems / by David Whyte. Langley, Wash. : Many Rivers Press, 1992.

First and Second Peter / Duane F. Watson and Terrance Callan. Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, 2012.

First Corinthians / Pheme Perkins. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, c2012.

Food and faith : a theology of eating / Norman Wirzba. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Foucault live : (interviews, 1961-1984) / Michel Foucault ; edited by Sylvere Lotringer ; translated by Lysa Hochroth and John Johnston. New York, N.Y. : Semiotext(e), c1996.

The Foucault reader / edited by Paul Rabinow. New York : Vintage Books, 2010.

The fragility of goodness : luck and ethics in Greek tragedy and philosophy / Martha C. Nussbaum. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Gardening with ferns / Martin Rickard. Boston : Horticulture Publications, 2005.

Global voices on biblical equality: women and men ministering together in the church / [edited] by Aida Besancon Spencer, William David Spencer, and Mimi Haddad. Eugene, Or. : Wipf & Stock, c2008.

God and gadgets : following Jesus in a technological world / Brad J. Kallenberg ; with a foreword by Nancey C. Murphy. Eugene, Or.  : Wipf and Stock Pub., c2011.

The Google way : how one company is revolutionizing management as we know it / Bernard Girard. San Francisco : No Starch Press, c2009.

Graphic Artists Guild handbook : pricing & ethical guidelines / [[contributors], Guild members and nonmembers]. New York : Graphic Artists Guild ; [Newton Abbot : David & Charles [distributor]], c2010.

Graphic design : a new history / Stephen J. Eskilson. New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2012.

Graphic design thinking : beyond brainstorming / Ellen Lupton, editor. New York : Princeton Architectural Press ; Baltimore : Maryland Institute College of Art, 2011, c2011.

Handbook of women Biblical interpreters : a historical and biographical guide / Marion Ann Taylor, editor Agnes Choi, associate editor. Grand Rapids, MI : Baker Academic, c2012.

A heartbreaking work of staggering genius / by Dave Eggers. New York : Vintage Books, 2001.

Hegel : a very short introduction / Peter Singer. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Help me to find my people : the African American search for family lost in slavery / by Heather Andrea Williams. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012.

Hitler youth / Michael H. Kater. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.

Hitler’s children : sons and daughters of leaders of the Third Reich talk about their fathers and themselves / Gerald L. Posner. New York : Random House, c1991.

The house of belonging : poems / by David Whyte. Langley, Wash. : Many Rivers Press, 1997.

How to be a graphic designer, without losing your soul / Adrian Shaughnessy. New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2010.

The hunger games [videorecording] / directed by Gary Ross ; screenplay by Gary Ross and Suzanne Collins and Billy Ray ; produced by Nina Jacobson, Jon Kilik ; a Lionsgate presentation ; a Color Force/Lionsgate production ; a Gary Ross film. Santa Monica, Calif. : Lions Gate Home Entertainment, [2012].

Icons / Robin Cormack. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2007.

In defence of the terror : liberty or death in the French Revolution / Sophie Wahnich ; translated by David Fernbach ; with a foreword by Slavoj Zizek. Verso Books : Brooklyn, NY, 2012.

An introduction to divine and human readings / by Cassiodorus Senator ; translated, with an introd. and notes by Leslie Webber Jones. New York : W.W. Norton, 1969, 1946.

Introduction to Sanskrit. Part one / Thomas Egenes. Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass, 2011.

Introduction to Sanskrit. Part two / Thomas Egenes. Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass, 2009.

Jesus Christ and the life of the mind / Mark A. Noll. Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub., 2011.

Justin Martyr and his worlds / edited by Sara Parvis and Paul Foster. Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2007.

The kite runner [videorecording] / DreamWorks Pictures, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Participant Productions present a Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Parkes/MacDonald production ; produced by William Horberg, Walter Parkes, Rebecca Yeldham and E. Bennett Walsh ; screenplay by David Benioff ; directed by Marc Forster. Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, {496}2008.

Live at Shea Stadium [videorecording] : the concert. [Australia] : Distributed by Sony Music Entertainment Australia, c2011.

Luke / David Lyle Jeffrey. Grand Rapids,Mich. : Brazos Press, c2012.

Martha Jefferson Randolph, daughter of Monticello : her life and times / by Cynthia A. Kierner. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

Minding the gap : why integrating high school with college makes sense and how to do it / [edited by] Nancy Hoffman… [et al.]. Cambridge, MA : Harvard Education Press, 2007.

Modern Poetry and Ethnography : Yeats, Frost, Warren, Heaney, and the Poet as Anthropologist / Sean Heuston. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 2011.

Mortality / Christopher Hitchens. New York : Twelve, 2012.

The order of things : an archaeology of the human sciences / Michel Foucault. New York : Vintage Books, 1994.

Murder by the book? : feminism and the crime novel / Sally R. Munt. London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

My little book of river otters / by Hope Irvin Marston ; illustrated by Maria Magdalena Brown. Minneapolis, MN : Windward Pub., c2003.

The networked wilderness : communicating in early New England / Matt Cohen. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.

The new encyclopedia of Southern culture / Charles Reagan Wilson, general editor ; James G. Thomas Jr., managing editor ; Ann J. Abadie, associate editor. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006-

NW : a novel / Zadie Smith. New York : Penguin Press, 2012.

Occupational therapy practice guidelines for individuals with work-related injuries and illnesses / Vicki Kaskutas, Jeff Snodgrass. Bethesda, MD : American Occupational Therapy Association, c2009.

The Old Green Rocker.

On Point Four Steps to Better Life Teams. Advantage Media Group 2012.

Once. Theatre Communications Group 2012.

Opening Paul’s letters : a reader’s guide to genre and interpretation / Patrick Gray. Grand Rapids, MI : Baker Academic, c2012.

The Oxford history of historical writing / Daniel Woolf, general editor. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011-

Parade of faith : a biographical history of the Christian church / Ruth A. Tucker. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, 2011.

Past or portal? : enhancing undergraduate learning through special collections and archives / edited by Eleanor Mitchell, Peggy Seiden, and Suzy Taraba.

Paul’s Jewish matrix / edited by Thomas G. Casey, Justin Taylor ; with an introductory essay by Karl P. Donfried. Mahway, NJ : Paulist Press ; Rome : Gregorian & Biblical Press, 2011.

The people Paul admired : the house church leaders of the new testament / Beulah Wood. Eugene, Or. : Wipf & Stock Publishers, c2011.

The Poetics of Aristotle : translation and commentary / Stephen Halliwell. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1987.

The price of freedom denied : religious persecution and conflict in the 21st century / Brian J. Grim, Roger  Finke. New York : Cambridge University Press, c2011.

Psyche : inventions of the other / Jacques Derrida ; edited by Peggy Kamuf and Elizabeth Rottenberg. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007-08.

Reading the Gospels wisely : a narrative and theological introduction / Jonathan T. Pennington. Grand Rapids, MI : Baker Academic, c2012.

Redeeming love  : a novel / Francine Rivers. Sisters, Or. : Multnomah, [2005], c1997.

Responding to abuse in Christian homes : a challenge to churches and their leaders / edited by Nancy Nason-Clark, Catherine Clark Kroeger, and Barbara Fisher-Townsend. Eugene. Or. : Wipf & Stock, c2011.

Running with the grasshoppers : Finding encouragement in expressions of faith / by R. Mark Webb. Camarillo, Calif. : Xulon press (subsidiary of Salem Communications), 2011.

Sackets Harbor powder monkey: the War of 1812 Hope Irvin Marston with Burt Phillips. CreateSpace, 2012.

Safe, sane, and consensual : contemporary perspectives on sadomasochism / edited by Darren Langdridge and Meg Barker. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan 2007.

Scribbling women & the short story form : approaches by American & British women writers / edited by Ellen Burton Harrington. New York : Peter Lang, c2008.

The shame of survival : working through a Nazi childhood / Ursula Mahlendorf. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009.

The siege of Krishnapur / J.G. Farrell ; introduction by Pankaj Mishra. New York : New York Review Books, 2004.

The Singapore grip / J.G.Farrell ; introduction by Derek Mahon. New York : New York Review Books ; [Berkeley, CA] : Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West, [2005].

Songs for coming home : poems / by David Whyte. Langley, Wash. : Many Rivers Press, 1989.

Sophie Scholl and the White Rose : resistance to the Nazis. Catholic Truth Society, 2012.

Taking Jesus at his word : what Jesus really said in the Sermon on the mount / Addison Hodges Hart. Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2012.

Teachers are made, not born : growing successful teachers in your church / [by Eddie and Billye Joyce Fine]. Cincinnati, Ohio : Standard Pub., c1990.

Thinking with type : a critical guide for designers, writers, editors, & students / Ellen Lupton. New York : Princeton Architectural Press, c2010.

Through the eye of a needle : wealth, the fall of Rome, and the making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD / Peter Brown. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012.

Using occupational therapy models in practice : a fieldguide / Merrill Turpin, Michael K. Iwama. Edinburgh ; New York : Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier, c2011.

Water by the spoonful / by Quiara Alegria Hudes. New York : Theatre Communications Group ; [Minneapolis, Minn.] : Distributed to the book trade by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, 2012.

The way [videorecording] / Producers Distribution Agency, ARC Entertainment and Filmax Entertainment present in association with Eleventy One ; an Elixir Films production ; an Emilio Estevez picture ; produced by Julio Fernandez ; produced by David Alexanian ; written for the screen, produced and directed by Emilio Estevez. Santa Monica, CA : ARC Entertainment, [2011].

A week in the life of Corinth / Ben Witherington III. Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, c2012.

What is the what : the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng : a novel / Dave Eggers. New York : Vintage Books, 2007.

Where many rivers meet : poems / by David Whyte. Langley, Wash. : Many Rivers Press, 1990.

Wings in the water : the story of a Manta Ray / by Hope Irvin Marston ; illustrated by Steven James Petruccio. Norwalk, Conn. : Soundprints, c1998.

Women of the resistance : eight who defied the Third Reich / Marc E. Vargo.

Worship as repentance : Lutheran liturgical traditions and Catholic consensus / Walter Sundberg. Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2012.

Worship through the ages : how the great awakenings shape evangelical worship / Elmer L. Towns and Vernon M. Whaley. Nashville : B & H Academic c2012.

The following Books (6 items) were received into the Library’s bestsellers collection during September 2012:

An apple for the creature / edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L.  P. Kelner. New York : Ace Books, 2012.

Dreamland : adventures in the strange science of sleep / David K. Randall. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2012.

The light between oceans : a novel / M.L. Stedman. New York : Scribner, 2012.

Mujer que buceo dentro del corazon del mundo. English. Me, who dove into the heart of the world : a novel / Sabina Berman ; translated by Lisa Dillman. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2012.

A mission from God : a memoir and challenge for America / James Meredith, with William Doyle. New York : Atria Books, 2012.

Where’d you go, Bernadette : a novel / Maria Semple. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012.

The following Books, CDs, and DVDs (30 items) were received into the Library collection as Gift Donations during September 2012:

Alcoholics Anonymous : the story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism. New York City : Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 2001.

The Asian journal of Thomas Merton. Edited from his original notebooks by Naomi Burton, Patrick Hart & James Laughlin. Consulting editor: Amiya Chakravarty. [New York, New Directions Pub. Corp., 1973].

The behavior of Titans. [New York] New Directions [1961].

The bucket list [videorecording] / a Warner Bros. Pictures presentation, a Zadan /Meron production, a Reiner/Greisman production ; a Rob Reiner film ; produced by Craig Zadan … [et al.]  ; written by Justin Zackham ; directed by Rob Reiner. Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2008].

Conjectures of a guilty bystander. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1966.

Contemplation in a world of action. Introd. by Jean Leclercq. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1971.

Encounter : Thomas Merton & D.T. Suzuki / edited by Robert E. Daggy. Monterey, Ky. : Larkspur Press, 1988.

Father Louie : photographs of Thomas Merton / by Ralph Eugene Meatyard ; with an essay by Guy Davenport ; edited by Barry Magid. New York : Timken Publishers, c1991.

Geography of holiness : the photography of Thomas Merton / edited by Deba Prasad Patnaik.New York : Pilgrim Press, c1980.

The Google way : how one company is revolutionizing management as we know it / Bernard Girard.San Francisco : No Starch Press, c2009.

The hermitage journals : a diary kept while working on the biography of Thomas Merton / John Howard Griffin ; edited by Conger Beasley, Jr. Kansas City : Andrews and McMeel, c1981.

A hidden wholeness; the visual world of Thomas Merton. Photos. by Thomas Merton and John Howard Griffin. Text by John Howard Griffin. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1970.

In this mountain / Jan Karon ; [illustrations by Donna Kae Nelson]. New York : Penguin, 2003.=

Light from heaven / Jan Karon. New York : Viking, 2005.

The literary essays of Thomas Merton / edited by Patrick Hart. New York : New Directions, 1981.

Monks pond / Thomas Merton’s little magazine ; edited with an introduction by Robert E. Daggy ; afterword by Patrick Hart. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c1989.

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Original child bomb : points for meditation to be scratched on the walls of a cave / Thomas Merton. [New York] : New Directions, 1962.

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A seven day journey with Thomas Merton / Esther de Waal. Ann Arbor, Mich. : Servant Publications, c1992.

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Wings in the water : the story of a Manta Ray / by Hope Irvin Marston ; illustrated by Steven James Petruccio. Norwalk, Conn. : Soundprints, c1998.

You are good [sound recording] Compiled, arranged, and produced by Ken Young. Franklin, Tenn. : Hallal Music, p2008.

Million Pennies Campaign surpasses $7,000!

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We’re proud to announce that you, our loyal library users, contributed $73.83 in cash and change to our Million Pennies Campaign in September 2012. We have now raised $7,030.25 since the start of the campaign in April 2010. That puts us over 70% toward our goal of $10,000!

The Library staff would like to extend a hearty thank you to our most recent donors: James Bowman, Ben Carpenter, Angela Highfield, and Josh Ramsaran. James Bowman is the winner of our monthly drawing. He will receive the paperback Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Congratulations, James!

Bring your loose change (or cash or checks) and drop it into the plastic cube at the Circulation Desk. If you’d like us to thank you by name, please write your name on one of the slips of paper in the tray next to the cube. We’ll let everyone know about your generosity. Next month’s prize is the 2003 hardcover The Brick Testament: Stories from the Book of Genesis. We’ll draw a winner on November 1st from the names we’ve collected. When we reach our goal, we’ll allow you, the contributors, to name a study room whatever you like. Every penny helps! (If you’re not familiar with the Campaign, check out original post on the library blog.)

Incidentally, we will also take your unwanted but gently used books, DVDs, Blu-Rays, and audiobooks for our Million Pennies Book Drive. There’s a donation box in the library lobby.

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Thank you!

Print to the Library’s HP printers from your smartphone or tablet!

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ATTENTION: This post is obsolete. It is being kept on the blog for historical purposes only.

The Library recently responded to the increased use of web-enabled smartphones and tablet computers on campus by re-designing our website to optimize the viewing and use experience of our students and faculty. This is an exciting development, of which we are very proud.

The increased use of mobile devices on campus and in the Library has also resulted in requests from students such as: “I want to print a document from my iPad, but I can’t find the printer on the network. How do I go about doing this?”

Printing from a mobile device differs from printing from a laptop or desktop computer because there is no way to install printer drivers into the operating system on your mobile device. Printing has to be enabled through a separate mobile application (app) that you download and install onto your device. There are many printing apps available for various mobile operating systems (e.g., Apple’s iOS, Android, Blackberry, etc.). Some are paid, but many are free (more on this below). The app will typically support a list of compatible printers. You first configure the app to communicate with a compatible printer that is discoverable on your network via wi-fi from your device. You then link the app to an email account (to which you send documents you want to print as email attachments), or a web-accessed cloud storage service (e.g., Dropbox).

Because we use HP printers in the Library, I am going to tell you about a free printing app from HP that works remarkably well. I will walk you through the installation and printing process using an Apple iPod touch as my demonstration device (the steps may differ slightly on an Android or Blackberry device).

Step 1: Get the Free HP ePrint App

Go to HP’s Mobile Apps page and look for the HP ePrint app for your device’s operating system. For convenience, I have included links to the HP ePrint app download and use pages on HP’s site (right-click on the app icon to open in a new window or tab). Since I am demonstrating this process on my iPod touch, I searched for “HP ePrint” in the iTunes App Store on my device, and downloaded it directly.

Step 2: Launch the HP ePrint App

Once the app is installed on your device launch it. The first time you launch the app you will see a series of help screens. You can dismiss these if you’d like. The app home screen looks like this screenshot on my iPod. Notice the “No printer found: Tap here to select a print” message. Notice also the “Activate” button. It doesn’t matter which action you do first. However, you must be connected to the wireless network before you attempt either action.

Step 3: Locate and Add a Printer

I have chosen to find a printer first by tapping “select a printer.” Here is a screenshot showing a list of available and compatible HP printers on the Milligan College wireless network. Notice that available printers have a green light. If the printer is not available the light will be grayed-out. (Remember, this app only works with compatible HP printers. It will not support printers manufactured by other companies.)

Selecting a printer from this list is a little tricky. First, make sure you are viewing the list of printers under the “All” tab. The HP printers in the Library are LaserJet 4250s, and there is one on each floor. The app has identified several printers of this model. However, it doesn’t tell you where the printer is located. It only provides a printer code in [square brackets]. Further, on my iPod screen I can’t even see the entire code. However, once you know which printer is which it is fairly easy to select the right one because the codes are unique. Here is the list currently (Note: if/when any of these printers are replaced these codes will likely change. We will update information at that time):

  • Library First Floor is [D9E82C]
  • Library Second Floor is [DCD99E]
  • Library Basement Floor is [5E8812]

You can add one or all of these printers from the list. However, you can only add printers one at a time, and you have to have actually printed (Step 5) from each printer at least once before it is added to your “Preferred” list. To see all printers you have printed to tap on the “Preferred” tab. In the “Preferred” list the currently active printer is highlighted in blue. Change the printer you want by tapping on it.

For this demonstration I have selected the Library Basement printer [5E8812] by tapping on it. Once selected, the app returns to the home screen. Notice the light is green. But I cannot print to it until I Activate my ePrint account.

Step 4: Activate Your ePrint Account 

Tap the blue “Activate” button. This will take you to a screen (right) where you will enter an email address. Enter an email address you routinely use and tap the “Activate” button. The ePrint app will move to another screen where you will enter an activation code. The HP ePrint Center will send this activation code to the email address you entered in the previous screen. Check your email for a message from hpeprint.com with the subject line “ePrint mobile registration.” Open this email and enter the 4 character PIN code provided in this email. You have successfully activated your HP ePrint app!

Step 5: Printing from Your Mobile Device Using the HP ePrint App

When you return to the home screen you will notice three options listed below the selected printer: Photos, Web, and Email. For routine printing in the Library you will select either Web or Email. The Web option is for printing documents you have previously uploaded to a cloud storage service such as Dropbox. The Email option is for printing documents you have previously attached to an email message. To print a document from a cloud service just browse to and login to that service from within the HP ePrint app (see Step 7). To print a document that you attached to an email message you will need to log into your email account from within the HP ePrint app (see Step 6).

Step 6: Printing a Document in HP ePrint Attached to an Email Message

The screenshot at left shows the HP ePrint home screen with the Library Basement printer selected. Notice the “Activate” button no longer displays. Tap Email. In order to print from an email you first need to login to an email account. The first time you select the Email option you will be presented with the screen (right) with several popular email service options, or select “Other.” This will take you to a screen where you fill-in email address and password, etc. You can add more than one account. Accounts will be remembered within HP ePrint.

Attach a document you want to print to an email message. HP ePrint supports Microsoft Office (Word), PDF, and text documents. Send this message to yourself. Launch the HP ePrint app, select your printer, and tap the Email icon. Select the email account you previously registered and browse to the message and open it. Notice the attachment at the bottom of the message. Tap on the attachment to open it. The document will open with a large “Print” button at the bottom. Tap “Print”. The screen will show a progress bar as the document is sent wirelessly to the printer. You will receive a “Success” screen when the document has been successfully printed. Tap “Done,” and retrieve the document from the printer.

  

Incidentally, you can also just print an email message without an attachment by opening the chosen email as before, and then tapping on the email preview to bring-up the “Print” dialog.

Step 7: Printing a Document in HP ePrint from a Cloud Storage Service

If you have an account with a cloud storage service, such as Dropbox, you can easily browse to the service from the built-in web browser in the HP ePrint app. From the app home screen, select your printer and tap the Web icon, type-in the URL to your cloud service and login. Browse to the folder where the document you want to print resides. Tap the document to launch it. Exactly as before, the document will open with a large “Print” button at the bottom. Tap “Print”. The screen will show a progress bar as the document is sent wirelessly to the printer. You will receive a “Success” screen when the document has been successfully printed. Tap “Done,” and retrieve the document from the printer.

  

This printer utility app adds remarkable functionality to your mobile device. It’s a great complement to the enhanced mobile experience we have provided with our mobile-ready website. We encourage you to give this app a try. Once you get used to using this app with the Library printers, you can use it on other compatible HP printers elsewhere on campus. Feel free to speak with a librarian if you need assistance.