Broadening Conversation Book

1	Introduction	3
2	Theological librarianship as a ministry	7
3	The theological librarian : his commitment and strategy	18
4	Developing professionally on the job	25
5	That they all may be one	29
6	Some values in theological librarianship	32
7	On spiritual reading and religious reading in peril : president's address	35
8	Power and responsibility : reflections on theological librarianship	43
9	Introduction	55
10	The cataloger and instruction	59
11	Problems in manuscript cataloging	73
12	Archival good works for theologians	81
13	Changing a pile of books into a library	92
14	Collection development in a theological research library	99
15	Circulation in theological libraries : seeking and saving the lost	106
16	Parchment, paper, PDF : the literature of theological librarianship	112
17	Introduction	125
18	Seminary libraries and theological education	129
19	The community of learning	138
20	Professors and librarians : partners in the Oikumene	146
21	Theological libraries revisited	153
22	The structures of religious literature : conceptual frameworks for improving bibliographic instruction	162
23	Theological libraries and theological librarians in theological education	169
24	Introduction	177
25	Joint panel discussion : the library in the life of the seminary	180
26	Some thoughts on the joint theological school-liberal arts college library	196
27	The theological library : servant or partner?	203
28	Religious studies and theology	215
29	Serving the religion information needs of the public	220
30	Introduction	233
31	Seminary librarians (greetings and challenge from ATS)	237
32	Six years of ATLA : a historical sketch	240
33	Building on our strengths for the future	249
34	A look at the past	255
35	A combined greeting to ATLA 40 and reflection on ATLA 1	264
36	Introduction	271
37	On the union classification	275
38	When Catholic and Protestant theologies meet	284
39	Contemporary challenges to theological librarianship	292
40	The index to religious periodical literature : past, present, and future	298
41	Revolution, evolutions, and syndromes	306
42	Can serious academic religious book publishing survive in an age of pop culture?	313
43	Globalization and theological libraries	327
44	Shadow and substance	339