Library: Shelf Life: Life & Times at Taylor Library: Fall 2018 (9.1)

Check It Out on OverDrive!

Check out this summer's most popular audio and ebooks!

OverDrive / Libby Popular fiction and non-fiction audio and ebooks available for two-week checkout. Learn more about the collection: https://library.fontbonne.edu/overdrive.

Staff Spotlight

Please join us in welcoming Jenny Akins to the library!

Jenny has a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a Bachelor’s in history and Germanic studies from Indiana University-Bloomington. She has several years’ experience in academic libraries and a passion for assisting users in the research process. In her spare time, Jenny enjoys traveling and gardening. Her job responsibilities at Taylor Library include providing research assistance to students, faculty, and staff, and creating and maintaining library LibGuides.

Center for Educational & Emerging Technology

Jo Ann Mattson

We miss the Kinkel Center already, but everyone here is really excited to welcome Jo Ann Mattson and the campus Center for Educational & Emerging Technology to the second floor of the library. Stop by and check out the progress and keep an eye on Shelf Life and your inbox for updates!

How Do YOU Use the Library?

Use streaming video like AVON and Films on Demand

Featured Guide

Family: Past, Present, Future Catholic Social Teaching suggests the family is the most important social institution, the basic building block of humanity. This Dedicated Semester takes a broad, interdisciplinary perspective on practical, theoretical, and political topics related to families. It will offer opportunities to examine the history of the family and its role in education, religious formation, socialization, economic structures, and emotional development. We’ll explore traditional, changing, and families of choice and the challenges they face now and in the future.

Featured Resource: EBR

NEW RESOURCE!

Encyclopedia of the Bible & Its Reception A comprehensive rendering of the current state of knowledge on the origins and development of the Bible according to its different canonic forms in Judaism and Christianity. It documents the history of the Bible's reception in Judaism and Christianity as evident in exegetical literature, theological and philosophical writings of various genres, literature, liturgy, music, the visual arts, dance, and film, as well as in Islam and other religious traditions and contemporary movements.