Welcome to new Archives Technician, Shane MacDonald. He started yesterday.

The British Library has digitized over 1000 manuscripts. Read more about it in their article “The Latest, Greatest, Up-To-Datest Giant List of Digitised Manuscripts Hyperlinks,” and find the downloadable excel master-file. Find titles such as: History of Roman Jurisprudence during the Middle Ages, translated into Modern Greek Treatise on Greek grammar; selection of Homeric epimerisms Read More

CUA Students now have access to a great app for organizing online journals accessible via CUA Libraries: BrowZine.

Come and learn about notable figures from the Catholic University of America’s history in our “Outstanding CUA Alumni” exhibit located in the May Gallery of Mullen Library. The exhibit will be up from October through December of 2014. Outstanding CUA Alumni include: Jon Voight, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Martin O’Malley, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, Venerable Fulton Read More

Finding Aid/Collection Guide for the records of the Thomas More Society of America. The society confers regularly with scholars, lawyers, judges, and other public figures. They believe that More,  immortalized in literature and stage as “A Man for All Seasons,” faced issues familiar in the twenty first century, including privacy rights, personal freedom, and public Read More

The Vatican Library has digitized over 1000 manuscripts from their collection, and made them publicly available online. Watch this video for more information on the Digita Vaticana project. (Heads up! It’s in Italian) For more great stories, follow us on Facebook (CUA Religious Studies, Philosophy & Canon Law Library) and Twitter (@CUATheoPhilLib)

On Thursday, October 23 from 10 am to 2 pm, the University Libraries will host a Tech Fair. The entire CUA community is welcome to attend! SCHEDULE 10:00 am – 2:00 pm – Vendor Fair (Reading Room, 2nd Floor) Featuring: lynda.com, Blackboard, Piktochart, BrowZine, The Sunlight Foundation, Tanya Gupta (Examiner.com), ArcGIS, QOMO, Extron, Epson, Panasonic, Read More

The Religious Studies and Humanities Services department has created an information guide on the canonization process for Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.  In the guide you will find biographical sources, information on the canonization process, prayers, unique CUA material, a collection of Fulton Sheen videos, works on and by Fulton Sheen, and a selection of news Read More

CUA graduates have continued access to some library resources through the Alumni home page, in disciplines ranging from religious studies and philosophy to government affairs.   Resources available include:  RefWorks, ATLASerials, Annual Reviews, CQ Almanac, Project Muse, SAGE Journals, and POIESIS: Philosophy Online Serials .   To access these resources, go to Alumni Relations/Alumni resources/Benefits+Services.  Under Services, you Read More

Whyte, A and Allard, S. (Eds) 2014. ‘How to Discover Research Data Management Service Requirements’. DCC How-to Guides. Edinburgh: Digital Curation Centre. Available online: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/how-guides “this guide is meant for people whose role involves developing services or tools to support research data management (RDM) and digital curation, whether in a Higher Education Institution or a Read More