Ohio Theological Library Association  

Spring Meeting, Thursday, April 3, 2008

Location: College of Wooster, Wooster, OH

Andrews Library, McCreight Lab (on Lower Level 1, one floor down from the entrance level)

See http://admissions.wooster.edu/area/directions.php for directions and campus maps

ASAP: Contact Susan Burt (sburt@wooster.edu; 330-263-2152) to have a visitor’s parking pass mailed to you ahead of time. Provide the following information for the parking pass:  Your name, mailing address, make and model of car, and license plate number.  CARPOOLING IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

 

10:00-10:30 AM          Gathering and Coffee

 

10:30-12:00     Welcome

                        Business meeting

                                                Approval of Minutes, Oct. 4, 2007

                                    Treasurer’s report

                                    OCLIS Report

                                    Elections:  Secretary, Treasurer

                                    Old Business

                                    OCLIS Membership

                                    New Business

                                    Institutional Membership

                                    Programs and locations 2008-2009

                                    Announcements

                                    Member Reports

 

12:00-1:30         Lunch at the Wooster Inn Tartan Room (on lower level in the Inn). (See http://woosterinn.wooster.edu/ for menus and prices)

1:30-3:00           Program:  “The Theological Librarian as Reader”

How do you read?  As a consumer, to be able to say, “I have read ….,” or with meditation and contemplation?  Using the writings of Joe Coalter[1], Paul Schrodt[2], and others, we will discuss reading methods and habits, using works from our own reading history as illustration.  For example, what have you read that you may be glad you read but would probably not bother to read again?  What have you read that you go back to again and again, getting new meaning and understanding with each reading?  What works would you recommend that others read--for whatever reason?


 

[1] Religious Reading in Peril : A Challenge to the Vocational Soul of the Theological Librarian,” ATLA Summary of Proceedings 54:2000, p. 69-72, and his president’s address, ATLA Summary of Proceedings 53:1999, p. 113-116.  These are available on the ATLA website (use your member login at http://www.atla.com/member/publications/summary_of_proceedings.html) and in Melody McMahon and David Stewart’s book A Broadening Conversation. 

[2] “Christian Reading: Lectio Divina, Lectio Excelsior,” in: Journal of Theology (Summer, 2002) 55-68.  Also sent as an electronic attachment to OTLA list Mon, 25 Feb 2008