Theological Libraries

**I. Statistical Summary of Major Libraries in the United States**
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

*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."
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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