News Archive

Problems with off-site access to EBSCO databases
February 3, 2014

We're currently experiencing problems with off-site access to the EBSCO databases (including ATLA RDB, Old Testament Abstracts, New Testament Abstracts, and Academic Search Premier). We're working on the problem with IT and EBSCO. Instructions on accessing the EBSCO databases off-campus — with url, username and password — were sent to all @lstc.edu, @mccormick.edu and @go.mccormick.edu emails on Thursday 7 February 2013. Because of licensing agreements, the url, user i.d. and password cannot be given out over the phone.

Creating a new JKM Library account
January 27, 2014

With JKM's migration to Voyager complete, to access your account online you'll need to create a new JKM Library account, with a username and password of your choosing. With your new JKM account, you'll be able to:

New catalog up and running
January 17, 2014

JKM's new OPAC (online public access catalog) is now up and running. The full version is available here, and a lite version is available here. We'll be replacing the old catalog (above) shortly; in the mean time, feel free to play with the new one.

Why no new books?
December 11, 2013

As part of our migration to I-Share and the Voyager integrated library system (ILS), no new bibliographic records are being added to our current (soon to be former) Horizon ILS (Bill and Emilie, our colleagues in Technical Services, are keeping quite busy in the mean time, nonetheless). Beginning Tuesday 21 January 2014, our migration will be complete and the online catalog interface will change considerably and records for new acquisitions will be added to the catalog. More news to follow ...

JKM database of the week: Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archive
November 18, 2013

Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archive provides access to the full text — with full-color photographs — of Biblical archaeology review, Bible review, Archaeology odyssey; 5 books published by the Biblcal Archaeology Society: Aspects of monotheism : how God is one; Feminist approaches to the Bible; The new encyclopedia of archaeological excavations in the Holy Land, v.

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