An article in the Saturday, November 24th Washington Post covers the Latin Mass in the DC area. As a reference librarian, I have noticed that this is a popular topic among students and scholars. We have a non-circulating copy in the Religious Studies and Philosophy Library (Room 314) with the call number BT 4291 1996. Also, you may download the entire Missale Romanum (79 MB) at the Sancta Missa website.

The Vatican Information Service provides a daily newsletter sent by email on the events, pontifical acts and nominations at the Vatican. The VIS provides a listing of the past week’s services as well if you don’t want to subscribe to the newsletter.

The Social Science Research Network has announced the creation of a network for humanities scholars called the ‘Humanities Research Network’(HRN). The HRN is designed as a online community network for humanities scholars.

The networks currently available include the classics, philosophy, and English and American Literature. More information about the content can be found here.

The main web page for Religious Studies and Humanities has been updated! The main page has been separated into two sections: Religious Studies, Philosophy and Canon Law and the Humanities.

Major changes include:

• a news blog for each section that deal with timely, subject specific topics
• new and revised research handouts
• how to do effective research on the Web
• how to search effectively for dissertations
• how to make donations to the libraries
• updated contact information.

If you have any comments or suggestions for further improvements to our web site, please contact Kevin Gunn, Coordinator of Religious Studies and Humanities Services, at 202-319-5088 or gunn@cua.edu.

In addition to the New Catholic Encyclopedia being available through Article Databases & more, we now have online subscriptions to the following databases:

Encyclopedia of American Religions; Encyclopedia of Bioethics; Encyclopedia of Religion; Encyclopedia of Science and Religion; and the Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics.

The Libraries have just added a collection of online encyclopedias and other titles to their collections. The Gale Virtual Reference Library at CUA includes 10 titles: American Decades Primary Sources; Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists; Encyclopedia of American Religions; Encyclopedia of Bioethics; Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice; Encyclopedia of Education; Encyclopedia of Religion; Encyclopedia of Science and Religion; Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics; and New Catholic Encyclopedia. You’ll find all of these titles in the ALADIN Catalog and through the list of Databases. They’re available on campus or off to anybody with a CUA computer account. If you have questions, contact the Reference and Instruction Department at 202-319-5070 or IM cualibrarian1.

Vikipaedia in Latin! A good place to practice your language comprehension and contribute new entries. There is an article in the Wall Street Journal that covers the project.

The Semitics Library and the Institute of Christian Oriental Research have collaborated with the Brigham Young University to bring you the Syriac Studies Reference Library.  The full text of dictionaries, grammars, catalogs and other material vital to Syriac Studies makes this an interesting site.

The forklift at the Washington Research Library Consortium storage facility is broken and will be repaired in 4-6 weeks (the end of October?). The result is that some material may not be available. If you request material and you receive an email saying ‘insufficient information’, please submit another consortium loan request to another WRLC institution. If there is not a copy available in WRLC, kindly submit an interlibrary loan request.

The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity is our latest reference work. You may find it in Room 314 of the Religious Studies and Philosophy Library under the call number BXZ 106.23 .B53 2007. Table of contents.