AMBS Library

11/14/2025

Please join us in the Library Gallery on Tuesday, November 18, for this celebration!

🎉 Join the AMBS campus community to celebrate the publication of Organizing Spirit: Pneumatology, Institutions, and Global Imagination by Jamie Pitts, PhD, Professor of Anabaptist Studies and Director of the Institute of Mennonite Studies!

Refreshments will be served, and books will be available for signing.

03/28/2025

We're excited about the work our friend Lisa is doing at Institute of Mennonite Studies !

Lisa Guedea Carreño, MSLIS, of Goshen, Indiana, began March 3 as half-time Interim Coordinator for the Institute of Mennonite Studies — AMBS's research agency. She plans to serve through June 30.

08/16/2024

This expresses beautifully the sort of dialogue we want to facilitate in our library. Well said, Prof. Leah!

02/16/2024

02/02/2024

We've published the library annual report for 2022-23. Read the complete version at https://libraryguides.ambs.edu/reports.

(With thanks to Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI)'s Molly Reed for helping us visualize our data.)

11/29/2023

This Advent season, the AMBS library is pleased to welcome a display of nativity sets and other nativity-related items. The nativities, from many countries around the world, were collected by Director of Campus Ministries Janeen Bertsche Johnson. The full collection will be on display through Friday noon, December 8, and part of the collection will stay on display until the beginning of January. They may be viewed during regular library hours, which are posted at https://www.ambs.edu/library/

08/25/2023

See a report and recording of our time with Prof. Emerita Mary Schertz. Also, there's info here on how to get a signed copy of her Luke commentary if you missed the celebration.

On Aug. 16, 2023, the AMBS learning community celebrated a monumental achievement by Professor Emerita Mary H. Schertz, PhD: the release of her commentary on the Gospel of Luke. Watch an in-depth interview with Mary!

08/04/2023

Please make plans to come to the AMBS Waltner Hall Lounge on Wednesday, August 16 at 3pm for a special celebration of AMBS Prof. Emerita Mary Schertz’s recently published Luke commentary in the Believers’ Church Bible Commentary series. Mary will be with us to celebrate this great achievement. Following the special break celebration, Prof. Jackie Wyse-Rhodes will be interviewing Mary on the topic of “Our Lives as Scholars” for the Leadership Education in Anabaptist Perspective (LEAP) class. Feel free to stay for this conversation with Jackie, Mary, and the LEAP students. AMBS Library will provide snacks and drinks, and AMBS Bookstore will have copies of the commentary available for sale. This is a key volume for pastors and leaders to have in their personal collections! For more information, please contact Karl Stutzman, Director of Library Services, at [email protected].

04/17/2023

My favorite thing about AMBS Library!

03/20/2023

Free AMBS Library Webinar: “Just” a tool? A critical examination of ChatGPT
Have you been hearing about or using ChatGPT? Want to learn more about this technology? AMBS librarians, Karl and Kajsa, will be hosting a webinar on Monday, March 27 at 1:00pm Eastern with about 45 minutes of content and 15 minutes of conversation to follow. The content portion will be recorded and shared publicly following the session.
Everyone (AMBS community and general public included) is welcome to join this session.
Please register and spread the word! https://zoom.us/webinar/register/8016790581062/WN_tzvN2doIQASaeKlPrBmtyQ

Image: Bedford Hours - caption: 'Building of the Tower of Babel', from British Library, public domain