Faculty Reference

Book search online

• Google Book Search is growing rapidly and allows searching within the text.
• Google Scholar
• netLibrary in the FCC library catalog
• Online books

Copyright

• Checklist
• Copyright - access to copyright permission for millions of publications worldwide.
• Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials for Instruction

Book Sources

• BookFinder.com - Find used and out of print books from multiple sources in one search. This does include Amazon but does not include CBD.
• CBD Christian Book Distributors online.
  • Author Profiles at Christianbook.com
  • Christian Book Summaries provides abstracts of selected titles
• Eighth Day Books includes extensive description of many of the titles they offer in philosophy, theology, and the Inklings
• Half-Price Books
• Kregel Publishers have discontinued their Used Book Service.
• Pendlebury's Bookshop, one of the largest dealers in secondhand theological books in the United Kingdom.
• Stevens Book Shop - a reliable source for used books
• Theologybooks.com
• Windows Booksellers- a reliable source for used books
• Wipf and Stock reprints books on request; publishes new works in theology, biblical studies, church history, philosophy and related disciplines
• Academic Booksellers
• Archives Bookshop - a reliable source for used books
• Antiquarian Books - terms used in book descriptions in a sales catalog

Book Reviews

• Books & Culture
• Christian Book Summaries provides abstracts of selected titles
• Claremont Review of Books

A+ Conference 2007  web links from presentations

Publishers

• ACU Press
• Alban Institute - resources for congregations
• Augsburg Fortress Press
• Baker Publishing Group (Includes Fleming H. Revell Publishers) (Submission policy)
• Banner of Truth Trust (Edinburgh, Scotland and Carlisle, Pa.; Reformation and Puritan)
• Brazos Press (Submission Policy)
• Broadman & Holman(Their contact page has an option for manuscripts in the subject line)
• Cambridge University Press
• Christian Focus Publications (Editorial Guidelines)
• College Press (Authors' guidelines)
• Crossway Publishing Company (Manuscript submission policy)
• Eerdman's Publishing Company (Manuscript Guidelines)
• Eisenbraun's Publishers
• Hendrickson Publishers (For Authorship information, scroll down to section 5)
• Inter-Varsity Press (Submitting for publication)
• Kregel Publications
• Moody Press (Moody Publishers Submission Policy)
• Pilgrim Publications
• Regular Baptist Press
• Standard Publishing (Writer's guidelines)
• T & T Clark Publishers is now owned by Continuum as is Trinity Press International
• Thomas Nelson Publishing now includes Word Publishing and Caribe | (Manuscript submissions)
• Tyndale House Publishers (Submission policy)
• Zondervan Publishing Company ; also Vida

How to search the FCC Library Catalog for the books listed for your course's BIB number

http://librarycatalog.fcc.edu/m3/apps/m3opac/OPACWEB

1. Select "Enhanced Search"
2. In a drop-down box, choose "Anywhere"
3. Type in the course number -- with NO space: BGM123
4. Choose the "Sort" button to put in order by author, or title, or date, or other choices.
5. Send corrections or additions to the Librarian.

BIB Requests for items library should acquire

The outline below indicates the information the Library will use to acquire items you request. You may copy and paste the outline into an email to the Librarian, including as much information as you may have.(Book reviews may not include price or ISBN.) We can usually find items even with partial information.

Libraries

   Restoration Colleges' Libraries

• Abilene Christian University, Brown Library
• Atlanta Christian College Library
• Central Christian College of the Bible
• Cincinnati Christian University G. M. Elliott Library
• Dallas Christian College C. C. Crawford Library
• David Lipscomb University, Library
• Emmanuel School of Religion Library
• Faulkner University Libraries
• Great Lakes (Michigan) Christian College Louis M. Detro Library
• Harding University Graduate School of Religion
• Johnson Bible College Glass Memorial Library
• Kentucky Christian University Young Library
• Lexington Theological Seminary
• Lincoln Christian College and Seminary Jessie C. Eury Library
• Milligan College Library
• Nebraska Christian College
• Northwest Christian College Library Catalog
• Pepperdine University Libraries
• St. Louis Christian College Library

   Other Libraries

• Asbury (Ky.) Kinlaw Library and the combined Catalog for the Asbury Libraries
• ATLA Online Catalog Index Library catalogs for member libraries of the American Theological Library Association
• Fuller Theological Seminary Library
• Indiana University - Bloomington, Herman B Wells Library
• Library of Congress and the Catalog
• Oxford Libraries Information System
• Reformed Theological Seminary
• Westminster Theological Seminary
• Yale University Library

• WebLUIS. Catalog of Florida's State University System.

Reference

• Refdesk
• Onelook Dictionary Search
• Omnibiography
• News Sources in Reference
• MERLOT
• LeadershipU

Accreditation

• ABHE
• SACS-COC

Search engines

• Alta Vista

• Google Scholar

• Google Advanced Search
• Google More
• Googlelist of digital libraries
• Wayback Machine - The Internet Archive stores previous versions of some websites.This can be useful for retrieving the content of a link that is no longer active.

Emergency Management

• Florida Emergency Management
• Osceola County information
• National Hurricane Center
• Solinet Contents of a Disaster Plan and Recovery Vendors
• Learn how to save wet books

Links for the Librarians

• Directory of Publishers and Vendors
• Alibris for Libraries
• ACL
• ALA
• ATLA
• Book review sites and Index to book reviews
• Emery-Pratt
• Internet Library for Librarians
• Library of Congress
• LibrarySpot
• M3 Support Page
• MARC Magician Tutorials
• Terry Ballard's Typographical Errors in Library Databases
• YBP Library Services reports

Church Libraries

• National Church Library Association - NCLA offers church librarians personal advice, printed materials, and online help
• Evangelical Church Library Association - spiritual encouragement and professional assistance to librarians of church and Christian school libraries
• Starting a Church Library
• Church Library Subject Index of online resources

Vendors

• Christianbook.com
• Bookfinder: search for out-of-print books
• Library supplies sources (listed alphabetically): Brodart, Demco, Gaylord, Highsmith, Library Store, Librarian's Yellow Pages
• USPS Postage Rate Calculator
• Free fonts - use to make a graphic for a web page

Oct. 2007