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Religious Studies Web Guide
Library/Archival Collections
Maintained by Saundra Lipton (lipton@ucalgary.ca and Cheryl Adams ( cada@loc.gov )
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Colleges and Academic Departments section for guides to locating institutional web sites - you can use the main site to locate the library section
General / Biblical Studies / Buddhism / Christianity / Hinduism / Islam / Judaism / New Religious Movements
Christianity
Portals:
- Catholic Research Resources Alliance - see "Catholic Portal" to free research resources (Books, archival material, pamphlets etc) and Catholic News Archive
- Dissenting Academies Online - "Dissenting Academies Online contains: Database entries for 220 academies, c.700 tutors, and c.11,000 students; c.70 biographies of tutors and c.60 academy histories, with more added regularly;
Catalogue entries for over 20,000 academy library books; Records of 30,000 library loans made to over 600 borrowers." Includes Congregational, Presbyterian, Unitarian, Baptist, Methodist and nondenominational academies of higher education from the late 17th to late 19th centuries
- Graduate Theological Union Library Catalog
- Mundus: Gateway to missionary collections in the United Kingdom - guide to the holdings of over 400 collections of overseas missionary materials held in the United Kingdom
- Friends Libraries (from Quaker Information Center)
-
Saskatoon Theological Union
- Unione Romana Bibliioteche Ecclesiastiche - links to the catalogs of 18 Libraries
- VthK (Virtueiler Katakog Theologie und Kirche) - Meta-catalogue of over 6 million works including essays held by ecclesiastical and academic libraries in Germany
Specific Libraries/Archives:
- American Baptist Historical Society
- American Catholic History Research Center and Archives
- Andover-Harvard Theological Library
- Anglican Church of Canada Archives - Search Archives
- Archives of the Episcopal Church - Digital Archives
- Beinecke Library, Yale - Search the Beinecke Digital Manuscript Collections / Search the Papyrus Collections / Search the Medieval and Renaissance MS Collection
- Bibliotheque Nationale de France - over 8 million items published since the 16th century
- Bibliothèques de l’Université catholique de Louvain
- Billy Graham Center Archives -
searchable archives database
- Brethren Historical Library and Archives
- BYU Brigham Young Univeristy Libraries Note: BYU Masters Theses on Mormonism - see also rest of BYU digital collections
- The Catholic University of America - See also American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives
- Center for Adventist Research - "combines the resources of the Adventist Heritage Center and the Ellen G. White Estate Branch Office to provide the most extensive collection of Adventist related resources in the world" - located in the James White Library of Andrews University
- Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies - "resource center and archives for information about the Mennonite Brethren"
- The Center for Process Studies - Research center at Claremont School of Theology focussed on process thought
- Centro Pro Unione Library - "significant collections of ecumenical theology, the history of ecumenical movement, Vatican II, the WCC and an exhaustive documentation of the interconfessional theological dialogues
- Church House Library Books Database ( The Library of The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada)
- Concordia Historical Institute - Research center on the history of Lutheranism in North America, includes the archives of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod as well as other archival material relevant for the study of Lutheranism.
- Concordia Seminary Library (St. Louis)
- includes image collection with 1,300 photos, prints and postcards
- Congregational Library - includes image collection of 1,300 photos, prints and postcards
- Deutsches Liturgisches Institut Library - indexes works in books and journals
- Dixon Pentecostal Research Center (Lee University)
- General Commission on Archives and History, The United Methodist Church - Search the Archives
- Graduate Theological Union Library
- Dr Williams' Library - " is the pre-eminent research library of English Protestant nonconformity. Established under the will of Dr Daniel Williams, the Library is one of the oldest open to the public still conducted on its original benefaction." See also the Surman Index - brief biographical information on Congregational ministers in Britain
- Friends Historical Library
- Institut d'Etudes Augustiennes Online Catalogue - index to essays and books on the first 1,000 years of Christianity (includes Biblical and Semitic studies) Limit search to Institute d'Etudes Augustiennes.
- James White Library - Seventh Day Adventist resources
- Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Search - online catalogue to over 70,000 manuscript records in Syriac and other oriental languages - Search Vivarium to locate digital images
- International Marian Research Institute Library - index to books and theses
- International Pentecostal Holiness Church Archives and Research Center
- Loyola University Chicago - see Digital Collections
- Luther Seminary Library
- Meadville/Lombard Theological School - important archive for documents on Unitarian Universalist history
- Mennonite Library & Archives (Fresno Pacific University)
- Methodist Archives and Research Centre at John Rylands University Library of Manchester
- Moravian Archives - official records for the Moravian Church in America - Northern Province
- Moravian Archives Winston-Salem
- Online-Katalog der Bibliothek des Instituts fur Theologie und Frieden - Books and journal articles on the theology of peace, includes works from an ethical perspective
- Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Archive - "online digital archive of primary historical materials - correspondence, organizational records, tracts, sermons, diaries, photographs, oral histories - from different regions of the world"
- Pietism Aufsatze zur Geschicte des Pietismus - part of the Bibliothek der Frankeschen Stiftungen <- extensive index to books and journal articles on Pietism
- Pitts Theology Library's Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection
- The Presbyterian Church in Canada Archives
- Presbyterian Historical Society - 75,000 books, periodicals and archival collections listed in the Catalog - also includes Index to Foreign Missionary Veriical Files Index, Biographical Vertical Files Index and
Digital Collection includes images of Church buildings and photographs, texts, maps etc relating to Mission history
- Salvation Army International Heritage Centre Catalogue - descriptions of documents and books in their archive and library
- ASTR - Seventh-day Adventists' Office of Archives, Statistics and Research - Online Archives
- Simon Fraser University Library Doukhobor Collection - over 600 manuscripts, photographs , books, articles, document and interviews dealing with the Doukhobors in Canada are available online. For complete collection consult the Finding aid (last updated 2004)
- Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives - includes Digital Resources (convention annuals, biographies, newspapers and photographs)
- Swedenborg Library (Bryn Athyn College) - holds the Academy of the New Church Archives- "1,500 linear feet of records and manuscripts related to the history of the New Church and Swendenborgian movements in the United States"
- Swedenborgian Library and Archives (Center for Swedenborgian Studies, GTU) - over 26,000 items. In library catalogue limit "location" to "CSS" to just see works in the Swedenborgian Collection
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Union Theological Seminary Burke Library - one of the largest theological libraries in North America - search holdings via CLIO
- Unitarian Universalist Institutional Records
- KU Leuven Libraries - Maurits Sabbe Library (Theology) -- over 1 million volumes on theology and religious studies
-
Universitatsbibliothek Tuebingen
- Vatican Library - Archival Holdings
- Yale University Divinity School Library
Portals
Specfic Libraries/Archives
Portals:
- Canadian Jewish Heritage Network - combined index to the indexes and digitized material of the Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives, the Jewish Public Library Archives of Montreal, the Montreal Holocaust Museum, the Ottawa Jewish Archives, the Saint John Jewish Historical Museum, the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives and the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue Archives
- Feinstein Center for American Jewish History Repositories Database - last updated 2013
- Online catalogs of libraries with significant Yiddish collections
- Judaica Europeana: a network of museums, libraries and archives
- Judaica Libraries/Archives/Research Centers (Princeton University Library)
- Libraries and Archives with Jewish Music Collections - from the Jewish Music WebCenter
- Merhav - searches all resources at the National Library of Israel including Israel Union Catalog, The Israel Union List of Serials and Qiryat Sefer (National Bibliography of Israel)
- Online Archive of California - includes the American Jewish University, University of California (extensive Judaica and Hebraica collection), Stanford, Tauber Holocaust Library, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
- Rachel: The on-line catalog of the European Network of Judaica and Hebraica Libraries (REBJH)
Specific Libraries/Archives:
- American Jewish Historical Society - online index to library and archival colletions including digital collections.
- American Jewish University Library (Ostrow Library and Burton Sperber Memorial Jewish Community Library of Los Angeles) - over 100,000 print volumes
- Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center - have over 1,000 photos and a film archive but online index of holdings is not available
- Baltimore Hebrew Institute (Towson University) - indexes journal articles as well as books
- British Library Hebrew Manuscript Collection - selected images are available online - search "Hebrew"
- Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee National Archives - extensive information on the holdings of the Archives including a searchable collections guide.
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People - Now merged with the National Library of Israel - very extensive collection archival material from Jewish organizations and private individuals dating from Middle Ages to the present
- Center for Jewish History - combined index to the collections of the American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum and Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
- Genizah Research Unit in the Cambridge University Library
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem Catalog
- Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library (Penn Libraries)
- Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica (University of Florida) - over 110,000 volumes and over 180,000 digitized pagers
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Jewish Braille Institute Library
- Jewish Community Library of Los Angeles
- Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain
- Jewish National and University Library (Hebrew University)- includes the catalogue of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts (over 70,000 Hebrew manuscripts) and the Israeli National Bibliography (Qiryat Sefer) List of Personal Archives.
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec)
- Jewish Theological Seminary Library (over 400,000 volumes) - Collections including manuscripts, rare books, archives - Guide to JTS Archives. Includes the Diaries of Mordecai Kaplan
- Jewish Women's Archives - includes a number of full-text resources
- Judaica Collection Penn Libraries
- Klau Library, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Insitute of Religion
- National Center for Jewish Film" - key word search, A-Z listing and option to browse by subject
- New York Public Library - major resource for study of Judaism - Dorot Jewish Division has a number of Research Guides
- Reconstructionist Rabbinical College's Goldyne Savad Library Center - includes the Mordecai M. Kaplan Library a> and the Ira and Judith Kaplan Eisenstein Reconstructionist Archives
- Royal Library, Copenhagen Judaica Collection
- Saul Silber Memorial Library, Hebrew Theological College - "one of the largest Judaica libraries in the Midwest"
- Simon Wiesenthal Center Library and Archives - Catalogue Search - Digital Archives Search
- Southwest Jewish Archives - Covers West Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California
- Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership - Asher Library
- over half a million items in the collection - search catalog . Note if you become a member of Spertus or join SpertusNet you get access to Feinberg E-collection
- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive- Virtual Cinema - over 600 films are currently freely available
- Wiener Library - "one of the world's leading and most extensive archives on the Holocauste and Nazi era"
- Yad Vashem Library - contains over 150,000 books, articles, videos (see Online Film Database) and other works on the Holocaust from Yad Vashem including the Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names
- Yeshiva University Library -see also Archival Collection Finding Aids
- Yiddish Book Center - listing 1.4 million out-of-print Yiddish books. Can read 11,000 titles free of charge through Steven Spielberg Digital Library
Portals:
- Archives Project Index - guides to archival material for Branch Davidians, Church of Scientology, Jesus People, Moorish Science Temple of America, New Religious Movements, Peoples Temple, Serpent Handing Groups, Santa Muete, Seth Material, Shiloh and Wicca - from World Religions and Spirituality
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