services and resources for students at the samuel dewitt proctor school of theology

Services and Resources for students at the

Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology

Wilder Library

The Library website is your entry to our resources

To Find Books WALNET our online catalog

http://vauu.sirsi.net/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/x/0/49/

Where to find books: Collections

Reference (Reference reading room)Reserves (Periodicals reading room service desk)(the above books are library-use only)

General circulating collection (in “the stacks”)African-American Studies (also in the stacks)E-books (online)(these books you can check out)

“Helpful tips”

To check out books or to print you must register with the library.

Must have your student ID or a photo ID to check out books.

Graduate students may check out up to 20 items.

We offer free faxing 2 times a day and scanning to a VUU email address is free.

To Find articles

DatabasesOn campus

Databases Off-Campus

Off-Campus Access to Databases

Sign in with your VUU email username and VUU email password.

Religion Databases: ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials

a small sample of other databases

EBSCOhost Religion and Philosophy Collection

Project Muse

JSTOR ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text

Issues & Controversies

3 tips for searching databases

For most databases, to keep phrases together use double quotation marks.Example: “database searching”

Use the keywords of your main concept

Use “limiters” or search options to keep your results to a manageable number.

Another way to articles and other electronic resources: Electronic Journals

Online Research assistanceLibGuides @ http://vuu.libguides.com/

Additional Resources

Inter-library Loan

Washington Theological Consortium Passat the Periodicals service desk

RALC Pass (Richmond Academic Library Consortium) also at the Periodicals service desk

Archives

Archives onlinehttp://vuuarchives.omeka.net/

Feel free to contact me for assistance!804-257-5723svdarling@vuu.edu