Benedictine College Library

DISCOVERY DAY HOURS

2011-04-05T12:10:00.000-05:00

THE LIBRARY WILL BE CLOSED ON WEDNESDAY APRIL 6 DURING DISCOVERY DAY ACTIVITIES. WE WILL RE-OPEN AT 6:00 PM ON WEDNESDAY.

Ebooks ... Changing the Paradigm and Challenging Our Old Ideas

2011-04-05T09:57:00.000-05:00

Future of Libraries in the Digital Age - From NPR

Challenges and Opportunities Facing Academic Libraries ... A Thought Provoking Article

2011-04-04T14:18:00.000-05:00

Google's Digital Library Failed--Can Academics Succeed?

Why does Benedictine College Library have 19th century grade school text books?

2011-04-04T09:43:00.000-05:00

From 1860 to 1870, the Catholic boys of Atchison were taught by the Benedictine monks of St. Benedict’s Abbey. In 1863, the Sisters of Mt. St. Scholastica arrived, and began a school for the Catholic girls of Atchison.

The ever increasing population of Catholic school children necessitated the building of a centrally located school for all. That school was St. Louis College, built in about 1889.

It is from this era that our 19th century text book collection comes…

19th Century Textbooks

2011-04-04T09:41:00.001-05:00

Bringing a Blog Back to Life

2011-04-01T11:16:00.000-05:00

A new display of nineteenth century textbooks, created by Miriam O'Hare, our Special Collections and Government Documents Supervisor has provided the occasion for reviving the Benedictine College Library blog.

Stay tuned for further information on this fascinating bit of Benedictine and Atchison history.

More on World Treaty Index (WTI)

2010-09-01T11:37:00.000-05:00

WTI indexes and provides citations to sources for full texts of multilateral and bilateral treaties. See History of the World Treaty Index .

Congrats and many thanks to UW's Glenda Pearson for her great work on assuring the continuing development of the WTI!

World Treaty Index

2010-09-01T11:33:00.000-05:00

Check out the World Treaty Index (WTI), an electronic treaty database spanning the 20th century.

"Recording Science: From Parchment to Pixels"

2010-08-11T17:53:00.000-05:00

Article from U.S. Department of Energy's OSTI blog

Will Libraries Be Part of the Next Pop Culture Wave?

2010-07-22T17:40:00.000-05:00

Why The Next Big Pop Culture Wave After Cupcakes Might Be Libraries - Article by Linda Holmes - Monkey See Blog

Academic Prose? Mostly Latin, With Greek and Hebrew

2010-07-20T14:40:00.001-05:00

In a letter published in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Professor Ed Macierowski offers a linguistic analysis of the Benedictine College Mission Statement.

Connectivity and Communications in Global Science

2010-06-29T15:05:00.000-05:00

Article from the U.S. Department of Energy's OSTIblog

Gerald R. Ford Digital Presidential Library

2010-06-03T15:18:00.000-05:00

The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library has launched a major program to digitize and post to the web some of its mot important materials. The first digitzation project was the "National Security Adviser: Memoranda of Presidential Conversations, 1973-1977".

Boston Globe Article on Harvard Libraries

2010-05-27T16:07:00.000-05:00

Read about changes at Harvard's Widener Library - "... technology, once again, is redefining how a modern university library functions."

Stanford Prepares for 'Bookless Library'

2010-05-27T16:02:00.000-05:00

Read news article about how Stanford is re-configuring their Physics and Engineering libraries.

"Marian the Cybrarian"

2010-05-27T15:52:00.000-05:00

Read this Chronicle of Higher Education essay about libraries and librarians

Benedictine College - Educating Men and Women in a Community of Faith and Scholarship

2010-05-27T15:09:00.000-05:00

Welcome To Benedictine College Library

2010-05-27T14:59:00.000-05:00

We are excited to be writing our first post on this blog.
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