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Learn How to Use Zotero 7

Zotero 7 is the latest version of the free and open source citation management software recommended by the GTU Library for researchers of all types. The GTU Librarians will show you how to install and use Zotero and the browser connector, as well as the integrations with Microsoft Word and Google Docs so that creating your footnotes and bibliographies can completed in just a few clicks. Here's the 15 minute video tutorial: Questions? Reference librarians are here to help.
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New Electronic Resource: Philosopher's Index with Full Text

The GTU Library upgraded to full text access through EBSCOhost for over 300 journal titles in philosophy. Journals published in over 30 countries in over 30 different languages are now accessible to the GTU community. Previously, the library only subscribed to an index. With full-text access, users can explore subject areas like ethics, philosophy of science, political philosophy and logic in more depth.   Some titles of note include: Journal of Philosophy, Think: Philosophy for everyone, and Environment, Space, Place. Users may also appreciate the strong collection of journals in Spanish...
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Meet the New ATLA Religion Database

Next time you click into an EBSCO database, you may be surprised. The company that provides us with a variety of databases, including the ATLA Religion Plus Database, created a new look for their sites. ATLA Religion Plus database Broad coverage in all areas of religion and theology. This is a great database for starting your article research. Also, use this database to find articles on a particular Bible passage. Here is the direct link to the Scripture Search tool Below, you'll find a PDF guide to help you navigate the new interface as well as a ten minute video to walk you through...
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Safeguarding Knowledge: GTU’s Partnership with Internet Archive Brings Collections Online

The Graduate Theological Union (GTU) has been collaborating with the Internet Archive (IA) in an ambitious digitization project, making rare and essential theological resources accessible to a global audience. This partnership, initiated in 2022, has already digitized over 30,000 out of the 60,000 volumes identified for the project. The initiative represents GTU’s ongoing commitment to ensuring that its unique collections, which are foundational to theological and religious scholarship, remain available to researchers even as space within the library becomes more limited and more and more...
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Eat, Dance, and Pray with People

The second issue of Art in the Archives, an occasional newsletter about GTU's special collections, is now available online. Jibreel Delgada Trabal, GTU PhD student, unravels the influence of Sufism in America through Murshid Samuel L. Lewis in  “Eat, Dance, and Pray with People: Peace Plans, Pilgrimages and Poster Art in the GTU’s Sufism Collection.” Jibreel draws from two New Religious movement collections and includes objects from the Sacred World Art Collection. Within the archives are materials about  Sufism in 20th century America, especially the activities of the American Mystic...
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New! Qu'ranic Studies Online added to GTU Library's Electronic Resources

The Graduate Theological Union's Flora Lamson Hewlett Library is subscribing to a new electronic resource, the Qur'anic Studies Online collection hosted by Brill.  Qur'anic Studies Online includes:  Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān Online is an encyclopaedic dictionary of qur’ānic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur’ānic studies.  Early Western Korans Online is a collection of 62 korans printed in Arabic type in several Western European cities between 1537 and 1857.  Qurʾān...
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Introducing the Online Exhibit "The Spirit of the Tarot: The Search for God's Picturebook"

The Graduate Theological Union's Flora Lamson Hewlett Library has launched a new online exhibition, The Spirit of the Tarot: The Search for God's Picturebook.  The launch corresponded with the 2023 Reading of the Sacred Text lecture, presented by Rev. Dr. Justin Sabia-Tanis entitled, "Divining Freedom: Queer Reconceptions of the Tarot Deck." The exhibition explores the religious and spiritual aspects of the Tarot over the past 500 years. From a game, the cards became a way to perceive the future and a tool for meditation and personal development. A reading of the cards can suggest...
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Flora Lamson Hewlett Library News

Flora Lamson Hewlett Library News From the Spring 2019 edition of Skylight See PDF of this article  In the past twelve months, the GTU library has renovated several new academics spaces, including multiple classroom and conversation spaces and a new digital learning lab. We’re pleased to announce that we have also created for the GTU community on the library’s main floor, a new Prayer and Meditation Space. The space is designed to feel comfortable for students, faculty, and staff from any of the diverse religious traditions at the GTU. “As members of our community make use of the space, we...
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Sacred World Art Collection Finds New Home

From the Fall 2018 issue of Skylight View PDF article here After many months of careful cataloging, the GTU Collection of Sacred World Art is now accessible to the GTU community!  Visitors to the library this fall may have noticed two new storage cabinets on the main floor. Over the last few months, nearly half of the more than three hundred items in the GTU Collection of Sacred World Art have been brought from temporary storage and relocated to a permanent home in these state-of-the-art archival storage units. Constructed by Delta Designs, these cabinets are used by museums nationally and...
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Clay-Edward Dixon Appointed Director of Library Services

The Graduate Theological Union is pleased to announce that Clay-Edward Dixon has been appointed Director of Library Services of the GTU’s Flora Lamson Hewlett Library. Dixon has served as the library’s interim director since the March 2016 retirement of Robert Benedetto, and has been the library’s head of collection development since 2000. Dixon is a seasoned librarian with more than 26 years of professional experience in technical and public services at a variety of public and private institutions. Before coming to the GTU, he served at the Ryan Memorial Library of St. Charles Borromeo...
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