Anglican Church of Canada Launches major tool for research
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/official9038
- Date
- 2005 May 11
- Source
- Anglican News Service
- Type
- Press release
- Text of motion
- TORONTO (May 11, 2005)
- The Anglican Church of Canada today launches a series of online databases to facilitate research on Anglican policies, resolutions and books.
- The databases, called "ASK -- Anglicans Seeking Knowledge", are part of the General Synod Library's web page and are, as of today, available to the public without charge at: http://www.anglican.ca/search/databases.htm
- The online package consists of five major databases and their accessibility through the internet makes ASK a valuable new resource for the entire Anglican Communion and for researchers world-wide.
- The databases include a full text database of General Synod policy resolutions dating back to 1924, a full text database of all resolutions of the Lambeth Conferences (1867-1998) and Anglican Consultative Council meetings (1971-2002), a book catalogue database of more than 4,000 titles and an article database containing more than 32,000 articles. Journals indexed include `The Anglican Journal', `Anglican World', `The Church Times', `Episcopal Life', `MinistryMatters' and `The Tablet' and others.
- The Content Server/WebPublisher software (also known as INMAGIC) used to create the online databases allows researchers to search and print material from the various databases using the internet.
- The project, which has been four years in development, demonstrates a commitment to corporate transparency and offers an example of mutual information partnership and reciprocity, said Karen Evans, General Synod Librarian.
- "We see this project as an example of partnership in mission, and information and communication offering to the wider Anglican Communion", said Ms. Evans
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- For more information, please contact: Diana Mavunduse, General Synod Communications, 416-924-9199 ext. 352; dmavunduse@national.anglican.ca OR Karen Evans, General Synod Library, 416-924-9199 ext. 291; kevans@national.anglican.ca
- Subjects
- Special libraries - Anglican Church of Canada
- Internet - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Communication - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Church of Canada - Information resources
- Anglican Church of Canada - Information services
- Anglican Church of Canada - Indexing
- Anglican Communion - Information resources