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I. Library Statistical Table II. Theological Library Websites

Parent Institution/School Library Name Location Number of Volumes Library Director
Andover Newton Theological School Franklin Trask Library Newton Centre MA 200 000 Sharon Taylor
Bangor Theological Seminary Moulton Library Bangor ME 80 000 Clifton Davis
Concordia Seminary Seminary Library St Louis MO 230 000 David Berger
Duke University Divinity School Durham NC - Roger Loyd
Candler School of Theology Emory University Pitts Theology Library Atlanta GA 490 000 Patrick Graham
Claremont School of Theology CST Library Claremont CA - Michael Boddy
Fuller Theological Seminary McAlister Library Pasadena CA 220 000 John Dickasen
Harvard Divinity School Divinity School Cambridge MA 400 000 Malcolm Hamilton
Hebrew Union College Klau Library Cincinnati - John Bruggeman
Jewish Theological Seminary Library of JTS New York NY 300 000 Mayer Rabinowitz
Luther Seminary LS Library St Paul MN 225 000 Bruce Eldevik
Notre Dame Library South Bend, IN 1 700 000* -
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Barbour Library Pittsburgh PA 330 000 Steven C. Perry
Princeton Theological Seminary Speer/Luce Libraries Princeton NJ 475 000 Stephen D. Crocco
Union Theological Seminary/PSCE Divinity School Richmond VA 292 000 John Trotti
Union Theological Seminary Burke Library New York NY 700 000 Sara Myers
University of Chicago - Chicago IL 300 000 -
Vanderbilt University Divinity School Nashville TN - Bill Hook
Virginia Theological Seminary Bishop Payne Library Arlington VA 153 000 Mitzi Budde
Yale Divinity School Divinity School New Haven CT - Paul Stuehrenberg
I. Statistical Summary of Major Libraries in the United States
*Total University Volumes

Sources of table data originate from information provided at the libraries' websites.


The author(s) should be notified of any additions, changes or concerns arising from the reporting of this data.


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II. Theological Library Websites

Franklin Trask Library-Andover Newton Theological Seminary
The Franklin Trask Library serves as a denominational resource for the United Church of Christ and the American Baptists. It has significant holdings dealing with New England theology and has a rich collection of Congregational and Baptist histories. It possesses a significant collection of Jonathan Edward's manuscripts.

Moulton Library-Bangor Theological Seminary
Moulton Library is on the main campus of BTS. Built in 1959, the library serves as a resource to the United Church of Christ.

Claremont School of Theology
This is a theological library for the United Methodist Church in California.

Concordia Seminary Library
The Concordia Seminary Library is associated with the ECLA and serves not only the seminary but the church at large. It also has two thousand journal titles and one thousand current serials and provdes the latest technology for academic research. The holdings contain also Reformation era publications and non-book materials.

Duke Divinity School Library
The Divinity School Library serves the Duke community and has resources supplementing the United Methodist Church in particular. Materials regarding John Wesley are notable.

Pitts Theology Library-Emory University Candler School of Theology
This library has over 1,700 periodicals with a special focus on materials from sub-Saharan Africa. The school highlights in its special collections some of the following subject materials: English religious history from 1660 until 1920, English and American hymnody and psalmody, North European theological dissertations down to 1920. Also the library archives emphasize holdings in English religious history and the history of Methodism.
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McAlister Library - Fuller Theological Seminary
Major theological learning center for the Protestant tradition in the West.

Clifford E. Barbour Library - Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
This PC (USA) seminary collection has a special collection on hymnology as well as resources for several Reformed traditions.

Andover-Harvard Divinity School
Vast collection of religious resources for the development of men and women to serve as religious leaders. An excellent collection on New England Theology.

Hebrew Union College at Cincinnati
The major library of the Hebrew Union College system-there are also campuses in three other locations including Jerusalem.

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Jewish Theological Seminary
One of the largest collection of Judaica and Hebraica in the world. Begun in the 1930s this library became a haven for Jewish materials preserved from the destruction of the Holocaust. A devastating fire in 1966 destroyed 70 000 volumes. The library has made a tremendous recovery since that time.

Luther Seminary St Paul
The major Lutheran resource and information center in the Midwest.

Hesburgh Library-Notre Dame University
This is a link to the main library of the Notre Dame system.

Speer and Luce Libraries - Princeton Theological Seminary
Two libraries within this PC (USA) institution, these two facilities have space for 750 000 volumes to serve the needs of the Reformed tradition. There are also special collections in hymnology and the Puritan and Nonconformist traditions.

William Smith Morton Library UTS/PSCE
Collection housed in a state of the art facility completed in 1996. It houses the Reinger Recording Collection and "...serves as the official repository and circulating agent of the radio programs of the Broadcasting and Film Commission of the National Council of Churches."


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University of Chicago Divinity School
This is the website of the University of Chicago Divinity School.

Bishop Payne Library-Virginia Theological Seminary
Library for the Episcopal seminary and Anglican communion in the DC Metro area.

Vanderbilt Divinity School Library
Vanderbilt Divinity School Library serves the ecumenical community and this Divinity School. Of note to the religious scholar is the Glatzer Collection of Judaica. Services.

Yale Divinity School
Library collection has a strong record of the Protestant missionary endeavor and an archive of early evangelism materials.

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