Milligan Library Life

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

10th Annual Edible Books Festival goes virtual!

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Planning was underway for Milligan Libraries’ 10th Annual Edible Books Festival when the word came down that Spring Break was to be extended for another week and then the campus was to be closed due to the growing threat of the COVID-19 pandemic. With available time shortened, and then with classes moving online for the rest of the semester, what was to become of Edible Books on this auspicious anniversary? Would we have to cancel? No! We would just move the festival online along with classes! “Most folks will be home and close to their kitchens,” reasoned Research and Instruction Librarian Mary Jackson. “In some ways it will be easier for them to bake something up at home than if they were on campus.”

As the name suggests, the simple idea behind the Edible Books Festival is that persons create and submit an edible treat with a book theme. Beyond this there aren’t many rules. The idea originated with the founding of the International Edible Books Festival around 2000. We held our first festival at Welshimer Library in April of 2011. Since then, it has become a Spring tradition — a special event to engage with the Milligan College community.

In normal years, Milligan students, faculty, staff, and family members would submit their entries in person to the Welshimer Room at the Library. On the first day folks would cast votes for Most Creative, Funniest/Punniest, and Overall Favorite. Then on the morning of the second day library staff would sample from the entries to determine the Tastiest entry before the Milligan community was invited back to Welshimer to taste from all the entries. Winning entries each receive a prize.

This year, beginning on Monday, March 30, folks submitted photos of their entry/ies via email along with their name and book title(s). Entries were received through Monday, April 13. We received 28 entries — the most we’ve ever had.

On the days leading up to the submission deadline, highlights from the previous nine Edible Books Festivals were featured on our Instagram channel. An album of entries was created on our Facebook channel, and voting commenced on Tuesday and Wednesday. Using unique emojis, folks voted for their Most Creative, Funniest/Punniest, and Overall Favorite. Unfortunately, this year we could not award a Tastiest entry — though it appears Katherine and her brother are enjoying her entry:

Though not as uniform as when folks voted in person, online voting was still pretty brisk. And the winners are:

Most Creative, awarded a $5 Dunkin’ gift card, went to Katherine Eldridge for How the Grinch Stole Graduation! by Dr. Seuss (receiving 65 total votes)

Funniest/Punniest, also awarded a $5 Dunkin’ gift card, went to Mary Jackson for Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver (receiving 40 total votes)

Overall Favorite, awarded a $10 Dunkin’ gift card, went to Jenny Simonsen for Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne (receiving 107 total votes)

Congratulations to our winners, and thank you to everyone who participated in our 10th Edible Books Festival! “I wasn’t really sure what to expect,” said Mary Jackson. “But we had the highest number of entries we have ever had! There was a lot voting and sharing on Facebook. I am very pleased with how it turned out.” If you haven’t already done so, be sure to take a look at all the entries on our Facebook event photo album.

New Books and Media Received (March 2020)

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The following Books and DVDs (45 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through the Acquisitions Budget, endowments (Seminary), and by donation during March 2020.

Seminary Library

History
Discover the holy land: a travel guide to Israel and Jordan, 2020.

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
1 Samuel by Ralph W. Klein, 1983.

1-2 Thessalonians, 1-2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon by Lee Gatiss and
Bradley G. Green, 2019.

Approaching the atonement: the reconciling work of Christ, 2020.

A boundless God: the Spirit according to the Old Testament, 2020.

Coming to our senses: body and spirit in the hidden history of the West, 2015.

In stone and story: early Christianity in the Roman world, 2020.

The McCabe reader, 2016.

Social Sciences
Healing racial trauma: the road to resilience, 2020.

New Testament Seminar
The best of the grammarians: Aristarchus of Samothrace on the Iliad, 2018.

Jewish-Christianity and the history of Judaism: collected essays, 2018.

The reception of Jesus in the first three centuries, 2020. [3 volumes]

Welshimer Library

Art
Animated personalities: cartoon characters and stardom in American theatrical shorts, 2019.

Book of beasts: the bestiary in the medieval world, 2019.

Leonardo da Vinci: a closer look, 2019.

Monumental journey: the daguerreotypes of Girault de Prangey, 2019.

History
American sutra: a story of faith and freedom in the Second World War, 2019.

Covenant brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.-Israeli relations, 2019.

How to hide an empire: a history of the greater United States, 2020.

The hundred years’ war on Palestine: a history of settler colonialism and resistance, 1917-2017, 2020.

March. Book three, 2016.

March. Book two, 2015.

Overground railroad: the Green Book and the roots of Black travel in America, 2020.

Separate: the story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s journey from slavery to segregation, 2020.

Wilmington’s lie: the murderous coup of 1898 and the rise of white supremacy, 2020.

Language, Literature, and Film
Allegories of the Anthropocene, 2019.

Chaucer and religious controversies in the medieval and early modern eras, 2019.

History and film: a tale of two disciplines, 2019.

The Hollywood Jim Crow: the racial politics of the movie industry, 2019. 

Military Science
The bomb: presidents, generals, and the secret history of nuclear war, 2020. 

Music
Big deal: Bob Fosse and dance in the American musical, 2020.

Charles Ives and his world, 1996.

Music in the Medieval West, 2014.

Philosophy and Religion
Explaining evil: four views, 2019.

Hard questions: facing the problems of life, 2019.

Mindfulness: ancient wisdom meets modern psychology, 2019.

Nietzsche’s The gay science: an introduction, 2019.

Silence: a social history of one of the least understood elements of our lives, 2019.

Political Science
Discourse and truth and Parrēsia, 2019.

Science
Nature’s mutiny: how the little ice age of the long seventeenth century transformed the west… and shaped the present, 2020.

Social Sciences
Policing the open road: how cars transformed American freedom, 2019.

Technology
How knowledge moves: writing the transnational history of science and technology, 2019.

DVDs
Ben-Hur: a tale of the Christ, 2011.

Donated Gift Items to the Milligan Libraries
The age of illusions : how America squandered its Cold War victory, 2020.

Tennessee blue book, 2018-2019.

 

 

Milligan Libraries links to Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library

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Milligan Libraries has created a link to Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library from our website homepage. The National Emergency Library was launched to support student learning at home, as schools and libraries have been forced to closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In addition to the over 2.5 million openly available public domain texts that reside on Internet Archive’s servers, the National Emergency Library contains over 1.4 million digitized books that are still under copyright protection—including nearly 480,000 titles published since 2000.

The National Emergency Library is built on Internet Archive’s Open Library, which makes single copies of books in this collection available to be borrowed for a 14-day checkout period. As an analogy to a physical book that gets checked out from a physical library, a checked out book is not available for anyone else to borrow until the copy is “returned.” Persons wanting a book that is checked out must join a waitlist.

What Internet Archive has done for this national emergency is suspend the waitlist limitation until at least June 30, 2020. This effectively means that there are now an unlimited number of copies for each book in the collection. Here is a screenshot of the National Emergency Library’s homepage:

Borrowing books is a simple process. Search for titles, authors, or subjects from the search box in the left sidebar. When you find a book of interest, click the “Borrow” button under the book cover. This brings up the Internet Archive book viewer and bibliographic record information. Initially, the viewer shows you a limited preview. You need to create a user account to actually borrow the book.

Once your account is created, log in, and click the “Borrow” button on any book to borrow it for 14 days. The book can be read in the browser viewer online, or downloaded as an encrypted PDF or EPUB and read offline using Adobe Digital Editions on your computer or mobile device (Internet Archive provides prompts for setting up offline reading). When you are finished with the book you can click a “Return” button, or just allow the time to expire. Downloaded files also expire after 14 days. This is an important safeguard against unauthorized duplication and distribution of these otherwise copyrighted books.

Internet Archive has been getting some pushback from authors and publishers about whether suspending the waitlist (much less the very notion of the Open Library) is legal from a copyright standpoint (see for example, recent stories here and here). Conversely, numerous educational institutions, libraries, and individuals have issued a public statement endorsing Internet Archive’s action during this time, noting that Internet Archive has taken steps to restrict unlawful redistribution, and stating: “These actions will support emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries are closed.” Milligan Libraries supports this mission and will continue to host the link to the National Emergency Library, though we will also follow any developments in this story.

Own a piece of Milligan Library history!

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How do you go about finding a book in the Welshimer or Emmanuel Seminary Library? If you are like most Milligan College or Seminary students or faculty today, the answer is obvious: you fire up your computer, launch your web browser and point it to the Milligan Libraries website, pull down the “Resources” menu, select “Books/Media Catalog” and then select “Milligan & Libraries Worldwide” to launch the online catalog. Search for the title. If we have the book in print or electronic (ebook) format, the record will pop up in your search results. The record will show you where the book can be found (library and call number location), and it even tells you if the book is currently available.

The card catalog

This wasn’t always the case, however. If you can believe it, once upon a time book records were typed on physical 3 x 5 inch cardboard cards (Title, Author/Editor, and Subject cards were created for each book) which were then arranged in wooden cabinets, collectively called the card catalog.

Here is a card that instructed students and faculty on the use of the card catalog.

The Holloway Archives at Milligan College, located in the basement of the Welshimer Library, still has one of the library’s old card catalog cabinets.

The Milligan College Library used a physical card catalog until the first online catalog went into service in the Fall of 1995. As it happens, the library was at the forefront of implementing computer technology on campus. The library implemented its first computerized library management system in 1988. Of course this was before the internet was (commonly) a thing, and the system was not networked. In a Stampede editorial from March 1988, then library director Steven Preston noted that the library system was used to print catalog cards.

In 1992, a collaboration between Milligan College, Emory & Henry College, King College (now King University), and (since closed) Virginia Intermont College resulted in the receipt of a 5-year United States Department of Education Title III grant that would be used to computerize the library catalog and create a barcode checkout system. Also during this time the Milligan College IT Department was installing fiber optic cable to create a campus-wide computer network that would be connected to the internet. Of interest, in an article from the September 30, 1992 issue of the Stampede, Steven Preston mused that “in the future, students and faculty will be able to link into the [library] system from their rooms and offices.” A Stampede article from May 3, 1996 covering Spring Board of Trustees meetings made specific reference to the newly implemented online catalog when it reported “[library] information is now easier to find due to the computerization of the card catalogs.”

What to do with all those card catalog record cards?

The transition from a physical card catalog to a computerized online catalog was a labor intensive process, as all the library’s catalog records needed to be translated into computer readable format. This process was outsourced to a company called Western Library Network (WLN) utilizing our card catalog record cards. The long and the short of this process was that after the records were computerized, boxes and boxes of catalog cards were returned to us to dispose of, or use as we saw fit. Since the old record cards were only printed on a single side, what ended up happening was that they were used around the library as scrap note cards. Ironically, a common use was that students or faculty would search the online catalog for a book and write the book’s call number on an old card catalog record card before heading to the stacks.

The library had so many boxes of these cards that it seemed as though they would last forever. But as it turns out, we recently reduced our backlog to a single box. We started to put the cards out next to the catalog computer as usual. But it then occurred to us that these cards were a part of Milligan Library history — a history we wanted to share with our users. So we’ve put this box at the Circulation Desk of Welshimer Library. Come by and take a card or two as a memento — a piece of Milligan Library history for you to own. But don’t wait too long. When they’re gone, they’re gone.

New Books and Media Received (February 2020)

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The following Books and DVDs (93 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through the Acquisitions Budget, endowments (Seminary), and by donation during February 2020.

Seminary Library

Language and Literature
Lexical aids for students of New Testament Greek, 1998.

A week in the life of a Greco-Roman woman, 2019. 

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
1 Kings 16 – 2 Kings 16, by Steven L. McKenzie, 2019.

Asceticism of the mind: forms of attention and self-transformation in late antique monasticism, 2018.

Bloody, brutal, and barbaric?: wrestling with troubling war texts, 2019.

Churches of Christ in Oklahoma: a history, 2020.

Contemplating Christ: the Gospels and the interior life, 2018.

Fully human, fully divine: an interactive christology, 2004.

The God who trusts: a relational theology of divine faith, hope, and love, 2019.

God’s voice within: the Ignatian way to discover God’s will, 2010.

A guide to living in the truth: Saint Benedict’s teaching on humility, 2001.

Jeremia 25-52, 2019.

A kingdom for a stage: political and theological reflection in the Hebrew Bible, 2018.

Managing leadership anxiety: yours and theirs, 2019.

Œuvres spirituelles, 2011.

Our bodies tell God’s story: discovering the divine plan for love, sex, and gender, 2020.

Reading Paul, 2008.

Søren Kierkegaard: discourses and writings on spirituality, 2019.

Spiritual direction 101: the basics of spiritual guidance, 2018.

Supplément au dictionnaire de la Bible vol. 15, 2019.

Three hours: sermons for Good Friday, 2019.

Toward God: the ancient wisdom of Western prayer, 1996.

The voiding of being: the doing and undoing of metaphysics in modernity, 2020.

We have heard, O Lord: an introduction to the theology of the Psalter, 2019.

Archives
First and Second Timothy and Titus, by Christopher R. Hutson, 2019.

The God who trusts: a relational theology of divine faith, hope, and love, 2019.

Hard-fighting soldiers: a history of African American Churches of Christ, 2019.

Reclaiming the great world house: the global vision of Martin Luther King, 2019.

New Testament Seminar
The Godman and the sea: the empty tomb, the trauma of the Jews, and the Gospel of Mark, 2019. 

AV Video
Revolution of the heart: the Dorothy Day story, 2020.

Welshimer Library

Education
Homeschooling: the history and philosophy of a controversial practice, 2019.

The missing course: everything they never taught you about college teaching, 2019.

Slaying Goliath: the passionate resistance to privatization and the fight to save America’s public schools, 2020.

History
The Cuba reader: history, culture, politics, 2019.

Language and Literature
A Cuban cinema companion, 2019.

Placeless people: writing, rights, and refugees, 2018.

Law
Corporate personhood, by Susanna Ripken, 2019.

Impeachment: what everyone needs to know, 2018.

Medicine
The Cambridge handbook of anxiety and related disorders, 2019.

Contemporary challenges in medical education: from theory to practice, 2019.

Philosophy of medicine, by Alex Broadbent, 2019.

Speaking for the dying: life-and-death decisions in intensive care, 2019.

Violence and trauma in the lives of children, 2018.

Music
Aaron Copland: the life and work of an uncommon man, 2000.

Charles Ives: a life with music, 1996.

Igor Stravinsky, by Jonathan Cross, 2015.

Music in medieval Europe, by Jeremy Yudkin, 2017.

Music in the baroque, by Wendy Heller, 2014.

Music in the Renaissance, by Richard Freedman, 2013.

Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, by Joseph Henry Auner, 2013.

A new English music: composers and folk traditions in England’s musical renaissance from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, 2016.

Songs of America: patriotism, protest, and the music that made a nation, 2019.

Philosophy and Religion
Amazing grace of quantum physics, 2017.

Faith and wisdom in science, 2016.

Food, text and culture in the Anglophone Caribbean, 2019.

Handbook of positive body image and embodiment: constructs, protective factors, and interventions, 2019. 

Recreation
Sport and the neoliberal university: profit, politics, and pedagogy, 2018.

Science
A complete course on theoretical physics: from classical mechanics to advanced quantum statistics, 2019.

The lazy universe: an introduction to the principle of least action, 2017.

The model thinker: what you need to know to make data work for you, 2018.

Physics from symmetry, by Jakob Schwichtenberg, 2018.

Social Sciences
Is gender fluid?: a primer for the 21st century, 2018.

Maternal optimism: forging positive paths through work and motherhood, 2019.

Uncanny valley: a memoir, 2020.

Technology
The art of electronics, 2015.

The art of electronics: the x-chapters, 2020.

Learning the art of electronics: a hands-on lab course, 2016.

Peak plastic: the rise or fall of our synthetic world, 2019. 

Juvenile
Bear came along, 2019. 2020 Caldecott Honor Book.

The book hog, 2019. 2020 Geisel Honor Book.

Chick and Brain. Smell my foot!, 2019. 2020 Geisel Honor Book.

Flubby is not a good pet!, 2020. 2020 Geisel Honor Book.

New kid, 2019. 2020 Newbery Medal Winner.

Other words for home, 2019. 2020 Newbery Honor Book.

Scary stories for young foxes, 2019. 2020 Newbery Honor Book.

Stop! Bot!, 2019. 2020 Geisel Medal Winner.

The undefeated, 2019. Caldecott 2020 Medal Winner; 2020 Newbery Honor Book.

Office Reference
Copyright conversations: rights literacy in a digital world, 2019.

DVDs
At eternity’s gate, 2019.

Fiddler on the roof, 2001. [replacement]

The Good Place. The complete third season, 2019.

High and low, 2008. [replacement]

Logan lucky, 2017.

Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, 2019.

Donated Gift Items to the Milligan Libraries
American exceptionalism and civil religion: reassessing the history of an idea.

The chosen, by Chaim Potok.

Dieterich Buxtehude, organist in Lübeck.

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: essays toward a fully trinitarian theology.

The great beauty. [DVD]

J.S. Bach, 2 volumes, by Albert Schweitzer.

Music in the Renaissance, by Gustave Reese.

An outline history of music, by Milo Arlington Wold and Edmund Cykler.

Vikings, by Neil Oliver.