Campus community, are you taking advantage of McCain Library’s electronic subscriptions to both the NYT and the WSJ? If not, visit McCain’s LibGuides for quick and easy directions that will allow you to access full content from both newspapers wherever you are.
Recent additions to our electronic subscriptions include the New York Times audio app. The app includes podcasts, new summaries and a host of cultural programming.
For assistance, please contact McCain Library.
Attention, Scotties! McCain Library will be closed until 2 PM this Wednesday, May 24th for Agnes Scott’s Community Day activities! We will be open from 2-5:15 PM and resume normal summer hours on Thursday. Have a great week and a superb first day of summer classes! 💜
Good luck with finals, Scotties! Remember to lean on McCain Library in your time of need. We are offering extended hours (PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY-OPEN UNTIL 10:30 PM!!), study breaks, study rooms, equipment (including graphing calculators!), research help and moral support! Don’t forget to ask a librarian or McCain staff member for help, should you need it!
May the Fourth be with you this finals week, Scotties! Come join us on May Fourth for and end-of-the-semester study break! There will be far-out refreshments and chill vibes provided, so you can space out and enjoy some time at McCain Library where your mind isn’t overworking. Find us in the Main Reading Room from 7-9 PM!
Happy National Library Week, Scotties! Show McCain Library some love this week by booking a study room, checking out a graphing calculator for your final, or visiting our book giveaway on the ground floor. Good luck through the push on this end of the semester, and let us know if we can help!
Celebrate Earth Week with us April 14th-22nd!
McCain Library extends a hearty congratulations to Professor Roshan Iqbal for publishing her new book “Marital and Sexual Ethics in Islamic Law: Rethinking Temporary Marriage.”
A description from the publisher’s listing:
“Roshan Iqbal traces the intellectual legacy of the exegesis of Qur’an 4:24, which is used as the proof text for the permissibility of mut’a (temporary marriage) and asks if the use of verse 4.24 for the permissibility of mut’a marriage is justified within the rules and regulations of Qur’anic hermeneutics. Iqbal examines seventeen Qur’an commentaries, the chronological span of which extends from the first extant commentary to the present day in three major Islamicate languages. Iqbal concludes that doctrinal self-identity, rather than strictly philological analyses, shaped the interpretation of this verse. As Western academia’s first comprehensive work concerning the intellectual history of mut’a marriage and sexual ethics, this work illustrates the power of sectarian influences on how scholars have interpreted verse 4:24. This book is the only work in English that includes a plurality of voices from minor schools (Ibadi, Ashari, Zaidi, and Ismaili) largely neglected by Western scholars, alongside major schools, and draws from all available sub-genres of exegesis. Further, by revealing ambiguities in the interpretation of mut’a, this work challenges accepted sexual ethics in Islamic thought—as presented by most classical and many modern Muslim scholars—and thus opens up space to theorize Islamic sexual ethics anew and contribute to this crucial conversation from the perspective of Muslim feminism.“
-Rowman and Littlefield
We love to see our Agnes Scott professors publishing such interesting topics! Thank you professor Iqbal for your contribution to contemporary research and enriching McCain Library’s collection.
Link to our catalog’s eBook version of Professor Iqbal:
ADJUSTED HOURS ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
McCain Library will be closed for the Spring Holiday Friday, April 7th and Saturday, April 8th. We hope all our Scotties enjoy their time off and don’t miss us too much! Normal hours will resume on Sunday, April 9th.
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask a librarian or other McCain Library staff member.
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We’re pleased to announce McCain Library’s Paint Chip Poetry Contest!
HOW IT WORKS:
-Come by the circulation desk near the front door of McCain Library to grab a paint chip or two.
-Write a brief poem on the paint chip card using the names of the paint colors as inspiration.
**If you don’t want to write on the card directly, you can always type on it or write/type on a piece of paper that the paint chip can easily be attached to**
-Bring the poem back to the circulation desk to submit it to the contest. We will accept submissions to the contest from April 10th-17th.
There will be a grand prize gift basket for the winner of the contest! The winning poem will be selected alongside multiple runners-up for a paint chip poetry display on the first floor of the library.
Special thanks to Circulation Student Workers Zora Robertson (for creating the contest poster) and Kenzie Beaudoin (for our first great example poem)!!! ❤️
Happy creative writing!! 🖋🖌
EXAMPLES BELOW:
Thanks to everyone who came to visit Librarian Christina Tatum and McCain intern Jada Beasley at the March Mobile Librarian installment last week! We always thoroughly enjoy our Mobile Librarian outreach due to all the wonderful student engagement, creative ideas, feedback and, of course, handing out the stickers and snacks!
See you at next month’s installment of Mobile Librarian! 📚💜
Agnes Scott College, McCain Library 