Dalton McCaughey Library

Discussing the future of Australian politics last time was a blast. Read the next Quarterly Essay on "Stopping family violence" at your Dalton McCaughey Library, and join the next Quarterly Conversation on 4 April.

"On this International Women's Day, I think we are being asked to resist the vibe—the temptation to let go of hard won gains."

A timely challenge from Bronwyn Pike, CEO of Uniting Vic.Tas, speaking at the Uniting Church Victoria & Tasmania event on Thursday

Visit the library to see our International Women's Day display, featuring a selection of works by some of the women scholars teaching and researching at Pilgrim Theological College and Trinity College Theological School. https://dml.vic.edu.au/celebrating-research-achievements-of-women/

There are some changes to regular opening hours this month: the library will be open this Saturday, 8 March from 9am to 12pm. It will be closed for Labour Day on Monday, 10 March.

Due to network maintenance, the DML’s access to online resources will not be available from 7pm tonight until 11pm on Sunday, 2 March. eBooks and e-journals/articles will be unavailable at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience.

It's not too late to register for "Quarterly Conversations" tomorrow.

Do competing visions bring a new challenge or a new opportunity for Australian democracy? Join a community discussion on our changing political landscape, hosted by Congregation of Mark the Evangelist.

Register at https://marktheevangelist.unitingchurch.org.au/quarterly-conversations

Are you looking for a light summer read? Yeah, neither are we! Check out these top-8 from our most-borrowed books of last year instead.

The bug is squashed. We couldn't receive your emails yesterday, but this has been resolved. Thank you for your patience. You can now say hello by email again.

The Big Re-Set—the 38th annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Theological Library Association, was held at the Dalton McCaughey Library and Corpus Christ College on 18th-21st November 2024.

In honour of Global Media and Information Literacy Week (24-31 Oct), DML is launching a community survey to better understand the media and information habits, preferences and needs of DML patrons.

https://forms.office.com/r/BBdG1JjzCV

Complete our short survey to help the library design new media and information resources tailored to your needs AND enter the draw to win a $50 gift voucher to purchase any item in Readings shops and on their website!

Join the Rev. Dr. Craig Thompson (Mark the Evangelist) who will lead a discussion on the US election, based on the latest Quarterly Essay. Date/time: Friday, 18 October @ 11:30 a.m. in the library. The DML has a few copies of the Quarterly Essay on hand.

All are welcome!

Early this year we set out our first community jog saw puzzle (depicting wardapi Jukurrpa Dreaming, from the Warlukurlangu artist community, published by Kakadu Plum Co.). This was completed last night! Thank you very much to all the members of the library community that helped to out this together while taking a break from work or study.
We'll leave the complete puzzle upstairs for another day or two, but we'll have a new jig saw puzzle later this week.

Anticipating New Testament scholars from around the world for the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas conference, who will be in Melbourne, 23-27 July, we have put together a small exhibit of books by some of the speakers. Come by and have a look!

In light of our upcoming community reading event (6th August), we are pairing Tish Harrison Warren's Liturgy of the ordinary with Cal Newport's Digital minimalism. Here is a quote that captures Newport's definition of digital minimalism: "A philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value, and then happily miss out on everything else" (Newport, 2019, 28).