Filing and Indexing Methods for Students and Pastors

Since the average pastor has available no one qualified to assist him in this task, he must do most of it himself. Aside from the task of reading and evaluating printed materials, the pastor must find some way of storing these materials and organizing them so as to have available the materials he needs, when he needs them. Dr. Elgin S. Moyer, librarian at Moody Bible Institute, reports a comment from one of his professors, “There are two ways of securing the information we need; one, having it in our memory, and the other, knowing where to find what we want when we need it.” The aim of this thesis shall be to describe a method of filing and indexing which may be used to help the pastor and student in this task

COLLECTION 0202: Howard J. Loewen Papers

Howard J. Loewen (b. 1945 – ) worked as Fuller Seminary’s Dean of the School of Theology from 2001 – 2014, and since then, has been a senior member of the Center for Advance Theological Studies (CATS) faculty as a senior professor of theology and ethics. The Howard J. Loewen Papers contains correspondence; newspaper and magazine clippings; research notes; manuscript drafts and publications; sermons; course teaching material; conference notes; and ephemera used within Loewen’s professional career. Topics include violence or non-violence; theology; Karl Barth; and the Anabaptist and Mennonite denominations

Guide to the Dewey Decimal Classification scheme

This library uses the Dewey Decimal Classification scheme (DDC) to arrange books and other library materials on the shelves for easy retrieval. It is used in many libraries and allows items about the same subject to be shelved together. This is a guide to the numbers used and what they represent

The Bibliographic Description of the Book of Mormon and the Bible

Classification is a notoriously messy business that requires compromises and rarely has clear-cut answers, but nowhere is this more evident than in the field of religious texts. Sacred religious texts such as the Bible have been through more iterations than can be counted. They are used by different communities in different ways. What some communities view as mythology, others view as historical fact. Placing such complex, living texts into stagnant, neat boxes can be almost impossible. The field of religion is also historically burdened by bias, and the DDC in particular has a notoriously unbalanced representation of religion, with Christianity occupying a disproportionately massive dominance of the 200s section of the classification scheme. However, by examining the ways in which such texts are classified, one can learn much about how classification works. This paper will examine the bibliographic descriptions of two sacred texts belonging to Christianity: the Bible and the Book of Mormon. The two texts are similar in that they are both sacred texts of Christianity, but they are different in that one has seen enormously wide usage, while the other is embraced only by a relatively small sect of Christianity. The similarities and differences in how these two texts are classified and described by systems such as the DDC, the LCC, and MARC can be revealing of how these texts are understood by cataloguers

Electronic Publishing in Higher Education: How to design OAI interfaces - Recommendations -

The Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) allows sharing metadata serving to describe arbitrary objects with others. In addition to a short overview of the protocol the paper on hand contains recommendations for the application of Sets by German data providers and for the proper usage of the metadata elements of Dublin Core (DC). Thereby the target is pursued to ensure an efficient metadata exchange between the different users of the OAI protocol

Fuller Library Bulletin -July-December, 1950, No. 7, 8

Originally published in print for the library of Fuller Theological Seminary from 1949 through 1958.https://digitalcommons.fuller.edu/fts-lib-bulletin/1005/thumbnail.jp

Decolonizing the Way Libraries Organize

Knowledge organization systems (KOSs) are social constructs that represent the needs and knowledge of specific communities at specific times and places (Olsen, 1998; Svenonius, 2000; Hunter, 2009). Libraries use knowledge organization systems like cataloging codes, classification schemes, and languages of aboutness to describe the information objects they hold. These structures are central to library cataloging (Farnel, 2017). Because library KOSs reflect the biases of the time periods and places they were created, applications of these systems outside of those contexts are potentially problematic in terms of gender, culture, and ethnic exclusion (Olsen, 1998; Alemu & Stevens, 2015). Many of the systems used in libraries throughout the world originated in the United States or Europe. It is time to consider the impact that these systems have outside of their designated contexts and how to integrate other perspectives. The purpose of this paper is to question the cultural suitability of the systems and procedures libraries have in place to organize materials. As stated by Berman, the systems and approaches that catalogers adhere to are “so slavish” (Berman & Gross, 2017). When librarians talk about changes to codes and standards that are currently in use, it is often at the micro-level. These micro-level changes include submitting a term addition or term change request to the Library of Congress Subject Headings; or adding/revising a rule to Resource Description and Access. What may be needed are not these micro-level changes, but changes at the macrolevel. Librarians need to feel empowered to go beyond the Euro-American models of library cataloging work, without feeling that they are violating the integrity of their relationships with networks and consortia. Structures need to be in place to allow libraries and catalogers to vary the way they apply the necessary guidelines. Specific examples—with an emphasis on Southeast Asia -- is presented to argue these points

1927-10-31 (The Lamron)

Student newspaper for Oregon Normal School, 1927-10-31. Newspaper includes campus, local and national news stories and photographs. For additional information about this collection see: http://digitalcommons.wou.edu/studentnewspapers

Bulletin of the Washington State Normal School Ellensburg. Library Number

https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/catalogs/1027/thumbnail.jp