Booher Library. The
staff of the Harold H. and Patricia M. Booher Library welcomes
you to our web services homepage. We hope your visit here
will be pleasant and useful.
The
Booher Library maintains and develops collections and services
in support of the present and future teaching and research needs
of the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, the Lutheran
Seminary Program in the Southwest, and the church as a whole.
We provide highly qualified professional staff, who, using resources
in a variety of media, offer counseling on the best ways to find
needed information. We support the seminaries and the church by
connecting information seekers with sources to meet their needs.
Our Library Staff
Our Director
Dr.
Donald E. Keeney has joined the community of the Episcopal Seminary
of the Southwest as director of its Booher Library.
Keeney
cames to the seminary in early January 2007 after being director
of libraries in metropolitan New York City, Charlotte, North Carolina,
and Kansas City, Kansas. With 17 years experience in academic
libraries, Keeney was most recently interim director of the Curry
Library at William Jewell College.
Experienced
with the use of electronic technology and setting up online library
systems, Keeney has written numerous book and electronic materials
reviews for the Clergy Journal publication - a work shared with
spouse Rachel, an editor. He has also written articles and reviews
for biblical and librarian journals.
Keeney
earned the bachelor's in biblical studies and the master's in
theological studies from Wheaton College, the master's in divinity
and doctorate in New Testament degrees from Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary and the master of science in library service degree from
Columbia University.
Proficient
in Koine Greek, Biblical Hebrew, German and French, Keeney taught
library research methodology and language coursework at Central
Baptist Theological Seminary for eight years. He is a member of
the Association of College and Research Libraries, the Society
of Biblical Literature and the American Theological Library Association.
He is convenor of the latter association's Baptist Denominational
group.
