November 2019

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The following is a compilation of highlights, updates, events, and new additions to our collection that may be of interest to students, faculty, and researchers. Please feel free to forward and share this information with your extended community!

News & Announcements

Martin Luther Exhibit

This Fall, the online version of Wild Boar in the Vineyard: Martin Luther and the Birth of the Modern World went live! The original exhibit was mounted in 2017 at Columbia's Rare Book & Manuscript Library to mark the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses -- now, many of the Burke Library's large collection of printed holdings by Martin Luther and other Reformation figures can be viewed online in high resolution. Read more about the exhibit in a blog post by Matthew Baker, Head of the Burke Library, here.

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Woodcut illustration of the apocalypse of St John
New Testament in German, Luther translation
(Third Wittenburg folio edition)
Wittenburg c. 1524
Burke Union Rare Folio CB77 1524

Black Theology Papers Project

The Black Theology Papers Project launched this week, in honor of the 50^th anniversary celebration of Dr. James H. Cone’s Black Theology and Black Power. The website, created in collaboration with the leaders of the Black Theology Unit of the American Academy of Religion and staff within Columbia University Libraries including members of the Burke Library staff, provides electronic access to many of the papers and presentations given at the Black Theology Unit panels at the annual AAR/SBL conference, and “aims to preserve and promote the intellectual heritage of black theology.” Read more about the exciting collaboration which included the diligent efforts of Union Theological Seminary student Heather J. Ketchum at the Burke Library Blog...

"Trapped in the Library" | a Halloween Escape Room

The Burke Library hosted an Escape Room (a series of puzzles and challenges in a closed space, with the aim of finding a "key" to unlock and escape the space) on Halloween! Circulation supervisor Deanna Roberts designed a fun and complex series of puzzles using materials from our circulating and special collections related to the study of witchcraft, ghosts, demons and vampires, in our Conference Room--which we decked out in spooky decor for the occasion (think: haunted library). Over 40 graduate and undergraduate students participated and learned new bibliographic skills. It was our first time putting together this kind of fun and engaging learning opportunity, and we hope to try it again next year!

New Materials at the Burke | Selected Highlights

Two missionary letters from James H. Deputie to Miss Eliza Jane McCormick. Written in 1874 and 1876, these letters provide vivid accounts of James Deputie's life as a Methodist missionary in Liberia, where he lived from 1853 until his death in 1896.

James Deputie, and Eliza Jane McCormick, correspondence
Burke [UTS] Manuscripts (Non-Circulating)
UTS Ms. 177

Joannes Facundus Raulin's 1745 Historia ecclesiae Malabaricae, an early history of the Syro-Malabar Church of Southern India, which traces its roots back to the Apostle St. Thomas. The focus of the work is on the Synod of Diamper, convened in 1599 by the archbsihop of Goa with the aim of establishing full communion between the Roman Catholic Church and the Syro-Malabar Church.

Approximately three hundred manuscript sermons by Ebenezer Thayer, a Harvard-trained Congregationalist pastor who settled in Hampton, New Hampshire, and preached throughout the region for the next few decades. The sermons, largely written between 1760 and 1790, address a wide array of contemporary religious, social, and political topics, including the American Revolution.

Read more about Special Collections at the Burke Library

Discover the latest recent acquisitions at the Burke in the CLIO Catalog

Coming soon...

Study Break in the Library
December 10th from 11am - 2pm in the Burke Library Conference Room on Level L3, current students can take a break from Finals and studying, with coloring and other relaxing activities. Cocoa and tea will be available, and students can chat with a librarian and discuss research papers and other projects (or just chill and have a relaxing break).

#DisruptWikipedia: The 1000 Women in Religion Project
The Burke Library joined the #DisruptWikipedia movement with our first-ever Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon in October of 2019, focused on the 1000 Women in Religion project of the Womens Caucus of the American Academy of Religion! Our next event will be held in Spring of 2020 (date TBA on our Events & Exhibis Calendar).

Here is Deanna Roberts, Circulation Supervisor at the Burke Library, who coordinated our inaugural event:

Photo from the Burke Library on Instagram @BurkeLibraryUTS

Check the Burke Library Events & Exhibits Calendar regularly

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