Kuehner Memorial Library
Now there are also many other things that Jesus did.
Were every one of them to be written,
I suppose that the world itself could not contain
the books that would be written. - John 21:25
Were every one of them to be written,
I suppose that the world itself could not contain
the books that would be written. - John 21:25
The Kuehner Memorial Library has roughly 50,000 volumes. The collection is especially strong within the areas of Anglicanism, the Reformed Episcopal Church, British church history, liturgy, and New Testament.
Collections
The Main Collection
The Kuehner Memorial Library has over 41,000 items in our catalog, most of which are available for circulation by our library patrons. Our library’s regular circulating collection, labeled Main, is very strong on Philosophy, Ethics, Religion, Christianity and Church History, the Bible, Liturgy, Worship, Dogmatic Theology, Practical Theology, and Christian Denominations, especially Anglicanism and the Reformed Episcopal Church. The Main section also contains items on Education, Music, Language and Literature. Titles needed for specific classes are moved to a separate temporary Reserve Collection with a more restricted and limited circulation period.
The Rare Book Collection
The Wailes Conference Room adjacent to the library houses a collection of books considered to be rare, some of which date from as early as the 16th Century. These items do not circulate, but are available for special handling and study by scholars by special permission and others for research.
The Archives
The Archive collection, like the Rare books, has limited circulation and is available for use by appointment. The Archives not only contain items concerning both the Reformed Episcopal Church and the Reformed Episcopal Seminary but it also contains works written by the various faculty members we have had throughout the years; thesis and dissertations written by faculty and students; and even contains copies of all denominational council minutes and diocesan (synodal) council minutes as well as copies of the Episcopal Recorder dating back to its beginning. The Archives has a comprehensive collection of bulletins, photographs, newsletters, parish registers and other material related to the life of the Church, its clergy, and its members. There is a growing collection of materials related to the Anglican Church in North America, dating back to its founding in 2009.
Resources & Links
WorldCatWorldCat (https://www.worldcat.org/) is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of tens of thousands of libraries throughout the world. The database includes other information sources in addition to member library collections. WorldCat contains over 540 million bibliographic records in 483 languages, representing over 3 billion physical and digital library assets.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials(NOTE: Resource reserved for RES Students, Faculty and Staff)
ATLA Religion Database (https://search.ebscohost.com/) is the premier index of articles, reviews, and essays in all fields of religion and theology, and offers significant breadth and depth of subject areas and languages covered. Content is selected for inclusion according to its scholarly merit and scope. |
Southeastern PA Theological Library AssociationThe Kuehner Memorial Library belongs to SEPTLA (https://septla.org/member-libraries), which is a consortia sub-group under ATLA (American Theological Library Association). SEPTLA consists of accredited theological seminaries and schools of theological education and across Southeast Pennsylvania (and Northeast New Jersey).
Member libraries include: Princeton Theological Seminary; Saint Charles Borromeo; United Lutheran; Westminster Theological Seminary; Missio Seminary (formerly Biblical); the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Seminary; Reformed Episcopal Seminary, and others. Students, faculty, and staff from each institution have borrowing privileges at other libraries in the Association. Institute for Christian StudiesICS (https://ir.icscanada.edu/icsir/), an independent graduate school for interdisciplinary philosophy, is hosted on OpenRepository, a hosted digital space repository solution from BioMed Central, the open access publisher of over 300 peer-reviewed journals in biology, medicine and chemistry, including SpringerOpen.
The Institute for Christian Studies supports open access through this institutional repository to collect, archive and preserve scholarly materials while showcasing it to a global and unrestricted audience. |
