Four library staff, Dorothy Hargett, Angela Masden, Pearl Combs, and Sara Baron, attended the Virginia Tidewater Consortium Library Summer Fun Day on July 22 at Christopher Newport University to hear George Needham, Vice President for Member Services at OCLC, discuss current trends in libraries. OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) is a library service and… ...continue reading...

The Codex Sinaiticus is the oldest known surviving manuscript of the Bible. Copied by four scribes sometime between 325 and 360, the entire Bible is in Greek, the text of the Old Testament being the Septuagint. The manuscript takes its name from the Monastery of St. Catherine in the Sinai desert, where it… ...continue reading...

The Association of Christian Librarians (ACL) is a professional evangelical-based organization dedicated to integrating faith, ministry, and academic librarianship through development of members, services, and scholarship. ACL publishes the print and online versions of the Christian Periodical Index, the leading guide to evangelical perspective journal articles.

This year, ACL members convened for their annual conference… ...continue reading...

Written by Sandra Yaegle, Head of Public Services

The Library of Congress has an online archive of 100 different collections of rare and unique items important to America’s heritage called American Memory. This collection contains over seven million primary source documents, photographs, films, and recordings that reflect the American experience… ...continue reading...