Book Marks - June 2007

Our library continues in its quest to make information available in a variety of ways, meeting you wherever you may be. If you find yourself online searching for church resources, look no further than the DHUMC Library Wiki! This is the one place online where you will find all the resource guides that are available from the William D. Thomson Library. Currently, that list amounts to one guide on United Methodism, but there are plans to add more within the next few months. The great thing about wikis, though, is that everyone in our community can contribute. If there is a topic you want to write about or contribute to, please contact Myka for more information.

We’re testing a new online catalog powered by LibraryThing.com. Links to our catalog now appear on the DHUMC Library Blog. To access the catalog directly, go to http://www.librarything.com/catalog/DHUMCLibrary. Please remember that this is just a trial, so only a few books from our collection are entered at this time. We would really appreciate feedback, so let us know what you think!

Please visit our blog (http://dhumclibrary.blogspot.com) for the latest news and updates. The church library is open Sunday mornings 9:45-11:00, and by appointment. Contact librarian Myka Kennedy Stephens (library@druidhillsumc.org) for more information.

General Conference candidate profiles now available

Are you interested in learning more about those across the North Georgia Annual Conference who are running for election as lay delegates to General and Jurisdictional Conferences in 2008? Well, you're in luck because a guide containing biographies and pictures of all the candidates is now available in the church library. If you have strong feelings about one or more of the candidates, please share your thoughts with lay leader Dan Browning and senior pastor Rex Kaney. They will be representing Druid Hills UMC at Annual Conference this year and will be voting for delegates to the 2008 General Conference and 2008 Southeast Jurisdictional Conference.

The guide is currently displayed on the reading table in the library. We prefer that you spend time looking at this guide in the library so that it remains available to as many people as possible. If you must take it home, don't forget to fill-out the check-out form and please limit your check-out period to 1 week (as with all Reference materials). The guide will be withdrawn from the collection after the election is over.

Introducing the DHUMC Library Wiki

Our library continues in its quest to make information available in a variety of ways, meeting you wherever you may be. If you find yourself online searching for church resources, look no further than the DHUMC Library Wiki! This is the one place online where you will find all the resource guides that are available from the William D. Thomson Library. Currently, that list amounts to one guide on United Methodism, but there are plans to add more within the next few months. The great thing about wikis, though, is that everyone in our community can contribute. So, if there's a topic you'd like to write about or contribute to, create a PBWiki Identity (free and easy) and jump right into the conversation! As always, if you have any questions about this, would like to know more, or need help and training to use the wiki site, just ask your trusty librarian! :-)

Collection Development Policy to Be Presented to Administrative Council

I will be presenting our Library's Collection Development Policy to the Administrative Council on Wednesday night, April 25. The full text of the proposed policy is available online. Please click here to view. A handout with the Collection Goals and Selection Criteria will be distributed at the meeting. If you are unable to attend the meeting, please send your feedback to me by e-mail, or comment on this post (click the comment link below). Thanks!

Restoring Faith edited by Forrest Church

Announcing a new arrival: Restoring Faith: America's Religious Leaders Answer Terror with Hope edited by Forrest Church.

Forrest Church, prolific author and senior minister of All Souls Church in New York City, compiled this impressive volume of 24 sermons and addresses in response to the September 11th terrorist attacks. Although it is now almost six years later, these words of grief and hope still speak to us in a post-9/11 society. It is a collection that spans the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim faiths and draws from well-known scholars and ministers, such as John Shelby Spong and Harold S. Kushner. Of special interest to our congregation, it includes a sermon given in Cannon Chapel, Emory University by Jon P. Gunnemann, Professor of Christian Ethics at Candler School of Theology.

Click here for the publisher's description
Subject headings: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Sermons. Sermons, American--21st century.
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Call number: BT736.15 .R47 2001
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Book Marks - May 2007

As we approach our annual observance of Peace With Justice Sunday, I would like to draw your attention to some new acquisitions that deal with social justice and peace issues. Please visit the DHUMC Library Blog for summaries and reviews of these and other new acquisitions.

War or Words: Interreligious Dialogue as an Instrument of Peace, edited by Donald W. Musser and D. Dixon Sutherland. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2005.

Ending Poverty as We Know It: Guaranteeing a Right to a Job at a Living Wage, by William P. Quigley. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003.

A Revolution of Compassion: Faith-Based Groups as Full Partners in Fighting America’s Social Problems, by Dave Donaldson and Stanley Carlson-Thies. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2003.

Restoring Faith: America’s Religious Leaders Answer Terror with Hope, edited by Forrest Church. New York: Walker & Co., 2001.

The church library is open Sunday mornings 9:45-11:00, and by appointment. Contact librarian Myka Kennedy Stephens for more information.

State of the Library Report

The State of the Library report which was given to Administrative Council on February 28, 2007 is now available online.
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