The United Library

Seabury-Western shares the United Library with Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, the United Methodist seminary across the street). The library has an outstanding collection of 320,000 volumes and subscriptions to 1,500 periodicals with strengths in Bible, Patristics, Anglican and Methodist studies, Liturgics and nineteenth-century American Protestantism.
 
Users have on-line access to the holdings of the Northwestern University Library and over half of the holdings of the United Library. Users are also able to access several hundred databases from terminals in the United Library and for those databases on the Web are able to access them outside the library.

Seabury-Western’s special collections include the Hibbard Library of Ancient Near East material and the Hale Rare Book Collection with exemplars of early prayer books on the Seabury side; and the Wesleyana Collection and the Keen Bible Collection of English editions of the Bible located at Garrett-Evangelical.

Posted at January 1, 2005 09:49 PM