ESR Access resources and accommodations
ESR supports Access learning by providing resources that meet the unique needs of students in the program. This includes access to Earlham College’s Lilly Library services as well as accommodations for housing working closely with Earlham College’s Office of Residence life to provide short-term housing for ESR Access students.
Research resources
Research is an essential part of the ESR Access education. To aid ESR students in their research efforts, Earlham College’s Lilly Library offers a document delivery service that will send books to you (your only cost is return shipping) as well as photocopied articles through an interlibrary loan of journals that aren’t available online. In addition, you’ll have access to:
INTERLIBRARY LOANS
Search the OCLC listing of books in U.S. libraries via WorldCat, from which you can make an interlibrary loan request through your public library.
ACADEMIC DATABASES
Academic databases like ATLA, Academic Elite and JSTOR comprising of numerous journals in the fields related to the study of religion and theology. You will also have access to other databases like reference works (OED, Oxford References Online, Encycopedia Britannica) and digital libraries (NetLibrary, Early English Books Online).
DIGITAL QUAKER COLLECTION
The Digital Quaker Collection is a freely accessible site created for ESR Access students to take advantage of the excellent Friends Collection in Lilly Library.
Housing accommodations
On-campus living in Earlham College’s residence halls, apartments and houses has all you’ll ever need in a college residential experience. In many ways, college is a new beginning–a chance to meet new people, build relationships and re-define yourself as a person. The average college student spends twice as much time in their residence hall as they will in the classroom, and so choosing the right community to live in is an important decision.
College houses
Residence halls
Apartments
M.Div. Access students
Special arrangements are made during the two weeks for students in this class to have some meals together and engage in community-building activities. Students are responsible for the arrangement and cost of their own housing and meals during the intensive.
Next steps
Ministry isn’t just a vocation or a calling—it’s a way of being in this world, seeking to make it whole. Earlham School of Religion is ready to support you in answering your own call to ministry, whatever shape it takes.