Your institution subscribes to ATLAS for ALUM.  What kind of feedback have you received from your alumni/ae about the program?
We have had feedback from a handful of alumni about ATLAS for ALUM, and it has been very positive. My sense is that a small percentage of our alumni are using ATLAS for ALUM but those who are using it are [...]

ATLAS for ALUM is a good program for us because many of the alumni have been interested in which library services they can continue after graduation. This gives them a very valuable electronic article resource when many others are only for current students. Some alumni are in more remote areas with no nearby theological library. Full-text citations in ATLAS are a godsend. [...]

The opportunity to subscribe to ATLAS for ALUM came just when the Advancement Office was considering how to strengthen the seminary’s connections with alumni. We have been thoroughly pleased with this program as we have learned from alumni how grateful they are to have it.

A pastor from Colorado wrote “I use the ATLASerials primarily for teaching and preaching. My methodology is to take [...]

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Alumni miss the access to resources that they enjoyed as students. For an ever-increasing number of library resources, there are no longer technological or geographical reasons precluding access. Why not provide it?

Think of the benefits to individuals, society, scholarship. Just as ATLA has excelled with its retrospectively deep indexing of hundreds of journals, so it now also excels by providing robust online access to full-text [...]

I am writing to express my gracious thanks to those in charge of the Henry Herrison Jordan memorial fund for their generous gift of access to the ATLASerials database for alumni of Duke University.

I am a recent graduate of the Divinity School (M.Div. '04) and as a student at Duke I grew accustomed to regular access to one of the best libraries in the nation. [...]