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Religious Studies Web Guide
Libraries/Archival Collections
Maintained by Saundra Lipton (lipton@ucalgary.ca)
See also Seminaries,
Colleges and Academic Departments section for guides to locating institutional web sites - you can use the main site to locate the library section
- British Library Catalogue - over 10 million books, journals, reports etc.
- COPAC - union catalogue of 22 research university libraries in UK and Ireland and includes the British Library
- European Library - searches content of European National Libraries - can also browse by subject
- Gateway Bayern - list of over 100,000 works published in German from 1501-1600
- GBV - web portal to a number of German libraries.
- Library Web Pages, Online Catalogs, and System Profiles - change to advanced query and change display to full record to see system profiles ( address of library, date automated system was installed, number of volumes in the collection, OCLC symbol)
- IndCat: Online Union Catalogue of Indian Universities -"unified Online Library Catalogues of books, theses and journals available in major university libraries in India. The union database contains bibliographic description, location and holdings information for books, journals and theses in all subject areas available in more than 121 university libraries across the country"
- Israel Inter-University Library Network
- Israel Union List (ULI)
- Judaica Libraries and Archives on the web
- Judiaca Libraries/Archives/Research Centers (Princeton University Library)
- Judaica Libraries of Judaic organizations/institutions
- The Karlsruhe Virtual Catalogue - union catalogue of European and World libraries.
- NACSIS-CAT - union catalogue of Japanese college and university libraries produced by the National Institute of Informatics in Japan. Can be searched in English
- Online catalogs of libraries with significant Yiddish collections
- Online catalogs of libraries with significant Judaic collections
- Union Catalog of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers
- VthK (Virtueiler Katakog Theologie und Kirche) - Meta-catalogue of over 6 million works including essays held by ecclesiastical and academic libraries in Germany
- Anglican Church of Canada Archives
- Archives or manuscript repositories which contain material relevant to the history of Evangelical Protestantism
- British Library Hebrew Collection
- Judaica Archival Project - Catalog of rare, out-of-print and classic Hebrew books on Rabbinics. You can order reproductions in paper, fiche or electronic format.
- Bibliomaven - Judaica Libraries and Archives on the Web
- Judaica Library websites
- Canadian Archival Resources - includes a section for religious archives
- Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives - extensive information on the holdings of the Archives including a searchable collections guide.
- Feinstein Center for American Jewish History Repositories Database
- HADDON - Online catalogue of archival ethnographic film footage shot between 1895 and 1945
- Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Search - online catalogue to over 70,000 manuscript records
- Incunabula Short Title Catalogue - international database of 15th century printing
- Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts - Information about this collection of over 70,000 Hebrew manuscripts, including a list of libraries containing the microfiche catalogue of the Institute.
- International Archives
- Judaica Archival Project Virtual Library - this listing of first edition Rabbinic works (Mishna, Talmud, Shulhan Aruh, Zohar, Kabbalah) allows you to view frontispieces of 1100 books.
Facsimiles can be ordered.
- Judiaca Libraries/Archives/Research Centers (Princeton University Library)
- 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.
- National Yiddish Book Center Catalogue - listing 1.4 million out-of-print Yiddish books
- 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"
- Research Archives of the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago - includes references to journal articles.
- Union Manuscript Computer Catalogue website - Census of pre-1600 manuscript holdings
- Websites of Repositories of primary sources - over 2300 sites are listed
- American Bible Society Library and Archives
- Andover-Harvard Theological Library
- Baltimore Hebrew University Library
- Beinecke Library, Yale Search the Beinecke 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
- Brimson Grow Library, Northern Baptist Theological Seminary
- Catalogue to the Bridwell Library's collection of letters from John Wesley
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People - Now merged with the National Library of Israel " They hold the archives of hundreds of Jewish communities, as well as of local, national and international Jewish organizations and the private collections of many outstanding Jewish personalities. The Archives now hold the most extensive collection of documents, pinkassim (registers) and other records of Jewish history from the Middle Ages to the present day."
- Genizah Research Unit in the Cambridge University Library
- Church House Library Books Database (
The Library of The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada)
- Concordia Historical In
stitute - 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)
- Congregational Library
- 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
- École Biblique et Archéologique Française - their catalogue is a comprehensive database of books and journal articles on biblical studies and archaeology
- Home Page for Special Collections at Luther Seminary Library
- Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts
- Jewish Braille Institute
- Jewish Community Library of Los Angeles
- Jewish National and University Library - includes the catalogue of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts and the Israeli National Bibliography (Qiryat Sefer) as well as an index of Hebrew Songs and Yiddish Songs. List of Personal Archives.
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal, Quebec)
- Jewish Theological Seminary Archives - Guide to the JTS Archival Collections
- Jewish Theological Seminary Library
- Jewish Women's rchives - includes a number of full-text resources
- Methodist Archives and Research Centre at John Rylands University Library of Manchester
- Paul Tillich Archives at the University of Marburg Library
- Pontifical Biblical Institute Library
- Royal Library, Copenhagen Judaica Collection
- Saskatoon Theological Union
- Saul Silber Memorial Library, Hebrew Theological College
- Simon Wiesenthal Center Library
- Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies - Asher Library
- SOPHIA - the joint catalog of the Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, and the St. Mark's Library of the General Theological Seminary
- Theological Faculty of Louvain Library
- Toyo Bunko (Oriental Library) - " library and research institute dedicated to the study of Asian history and culture. It is the largest Asian Studies Center in the region and one of the five largest in the world." Located in Tokyo, Japan
- Universitatsbibliothek Tuebingen
- Vatican Library
- Yale University Divinity School Library
- Yeshiva University -see also Archival Collection Finding Aids
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