LIBRARY: ONLINE SERVICES
Harding University Graduate School of Religion
L. M. Graves Memorial Library
1000 Cherry Road, Memphis, TN 38117
(901) 761-1354 hgslib@hugsr.edu
The HUGSR Library provides direct services to non-local students enrolled in HUGSR courses. You may email, call, or write to request books or articles for your research or to ask questions. For research questions, ask librarian Don Meredith at hgslib@hugsr.edu.
Hours
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 8 am to 9 pm
Wednesday and Friday: 8 am to 5 pm
Saturday (Fall, Spring): 10 am to 4 pm
Saturday (Summer): 10 am to 2 pm
Checking out books: If you are registered for an HUGSR course and live outside the Memphis area, you may have books mailed to you for a checkout period of four weeks. Your library account will be charged for the postage costs for sending the books, and you are responsible to send them back directly to the Library at your own expense. The checkout period begins and ends on postmarked dates. The fine for overdue books is $.10 per item per day, including weekends. To request an item, email Bob Turner at rjturner@harding.edu, including your mailing address. Items will be sent by U.S.Mail. One 4-week renewal is available (unless another reader has requested the title) by sending the call number to Bob Turner, or you may renew online with your H number. See instructions in “Searching HUGSR’s Online Catalog” referred to below.
Requesting copies: You may request scanned files of materials you need. These will be sent to your email address as PDFs. We do not fax. Contact Bob Turner at rjturner@harding.edu.
Postage, fees: You may choose to be invoiced directly or have charges added to your account in the Business Office for postage and fines.
Interlibrary loans: The Library will request photocopies if you need materials we do not have. Interlibrary loans usually require about two weeks to arrive. You pay the fee, if any, charged by the lending library. Contact Evelyn Meredith at emeredith@harding.edu.
Online resources: Almost all HUGSR journal holdings and books are listed in the Harding University online catalog. Instructions for searching the online catalog, which is called Quest, can be found at the HUGSR Web site (www.hugsr.edu) from the drop-down menu under “library.” Click on “Catalog search tips” for “Searching HUGSR’s online catalog.”
You may access several databases through FirstSearch, EBSCOhost, or Infotrac. Among the databases available are WorldCat (over 179 million records representing the combined catalogs of over 9,000 libraries); the ATLA Religion database, which contains over 1,300,000 records including full-text access to about 150 leading theological journals; and Religious and Theological Abstracts. For additional information and instructions for using these databases click on the appropriate link in the drop-down menu under “Library.”
Email the library for the authorization number and password, which are to be used only by HUGSR students. Please do not share these with non-HUGSR students.
If you are an HUGSR alumnus, you may access ATLAS for ALUM (more than 266,000 full-text articles & book reviews from the ATLA Religion database) through EBSCOhost. Email the library for the User ID and password.