Over the past year, the library has dramatically expanded its computing services department, adding nearly 30 new workstations, upgrading the wireless network, and implementing a new printing/copying solution. Today, we updated our website with a link to Library Computing Services (LCS) to provide more information on what computing services are available in the library and [...]
The conversion to our new payment system for copying/printing is now complete as the website to add money to your Shield Card is now available at https://theshield.sbts.edu. From this website you can also manage your Shield Card account, report if your card has been lost or stolen, update your email address, and more. For a [...]
This past week Southern Seminary upgraded its Shield Card payment system for copying/printing on campus. This change directly impacts the library, where most self-serve copying/printing occurs. We think you will appreciate our new system for two reasons. First, the new system works almost exactly like the old system. That means there is not much of [...]
One of the most common questions I am asked when helping patrons use our catalog concerns item availability. Patrons want to know if the item is in the library and available to check out. Answering this question was not always intuitive for researchers using our older online catalog. For example, look at the screenshot below [...]
We’ve talked quite a bit about WorldCat Local lately on our blog, and I’ll continue covering it until I have finished giving an overview of the new features, but today I want to take a break from WorldCat and take a look at another search tool available to our patrons: EbscoHost.
We subscribe to a number [...]