There is a nice new ad for the Carmelite Digital Library (CDL) on back of the recent Carmel Clarion (October-December 2012) magazine. I’ve included the ad in case you have not yet seen it. The ad provides a good summary of the CDL’s features and potential uses.
If you click on the image you can see a larger view.
We’ve all heard a saying or quote that just don’t seem attributed to the right person. But if you see on the internet, in church bulletins, on holy cards, or quoted from the pulpit then it must be right doesn’t it?
One such “quote” is attributed everywhere to St. Teresa of Avila and usually starts with “Christ Has No Body….”. One common variation is:
“Christ has no body now on earth but yours,
no hands but yours,
no feet but yours,
Yours are the eyes through which to look out
Christ’s compassion to the world
Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good;
Yours are the hands with which he is to bless men now.”
We’d like to share some recent unsolicited feedback we’ve received about using the Carmelite Digital Library. The first is a posting made by Dr. Nancy Thompson to the CinCarm mailing list:
I don’t know how many of you have tried the Carmelite Digital Library CD as a resource in your preparation for a talk or in your work as a formator but I find it worth its weight in gold. It has all of Teresa and John+ collected works and letters. Both the Kavanaugh/Rodriguez and Peers works are on the CD for comparison, as well as the Spanish text. I especially like having the Douay Rheims Bible version on the CD so I can look up what Teresa and John+ would have read when they quote Scripture.
Thought I would share my experience with it, in case you have heard about it but wondered if it was worth the purchase. I heard someone mention it on Cincarm when they were talking about something else, and immediately tracked it down to order. I had the original John of the Cross edition and used it a lot. Thanks to all who had anything to do with these helpful digital devices! What a service to Carmel.
Blessings,
Nancy Thompson, ocds
The second was part of a conversion with Fr. Kevin Culligan OCD at the recent 2012 OCDS Congress:
“Thank you for this product … I used it every day … I don’t know how I lived these last forty years without it … ”
Are there any techniques to help narrow in on the specific information that I am looking for when doing a search?
In this blog post we will describe some strategies to help find the specific information one is looking for when using the Search tab of the Carmelite Digital Library (CDL). This blog will not describe the various searching techniques such as wild card searches and proximity searches; we will address those in subsequent blogs. Read more »
This blog entry is directed to those who are using the Mac instead of a Windows PC. There has been a lot of buzz from Apple about the new version of the Mac OS X operating system called Lion (version 10.7) and it was released “into the wild” a few days ago (Wednesday July 20, 2011).
This blog will answer the question: Do I need to do anything special or extra to use the Carmelite Digital Library with Lion? Read more »
The questions we will answer in this blog entry are: What is the ‘active’ tab or window and why do I care? Read more »
In the previous blog post we described the use of horizontal and vertical groups of documents. At the end of that post we promised a discussion of floating windows.
So the topic of this post is: What are floating windows and how do I use them? Read more »
In the last blog entry we examined the purpose of the I, P, and S icons and found that they provide a quick and easy way to examine the same text in another English translation or in Spanish. The issue that follows from that capability is our next question:
How do I read more than one version of a text at the same time? Read more »
We are starting to receive questions about various features of the Carmelite Digital Library (CDL). The questions are taking on the form “What is X?” while others are “How do I do Y?”. Most of these topics are covered in the Help files that ship with the product. But as the Help files were written to explain or document every feature and option, the material is sometimes very dense. To help our users we plan to answer the questions we receive using this blog. We hope that by providing smaller and more targeted information everyone can benefit from the answers to the questions.
So here is the first question: What are those I, P, and S icons that I see on the right side at the top and bottom of a document?
As part of last Trinity Sunday’s homily the priest referenced the Quicumque (Athanasian Creed). I thought I’d remembered that St. Teresa made reference to the Quicumque so I decided to use the Carmelite Digital Library to see if I could find it. I opened the CDL, switched to the Search tab and entered “Quicumque” into the “Find:” box and pressed enter. Sure enough my memory was right as 3 hits were found.
Searching for "quicumque"