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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
- 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 Catalog
- 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
- Subito German document delivery service that provides a search function that searches through a number of German union catalogues to locate books and theses and indicates if the items are held by the over 25 German university, state and regional libraries that belong to this service.
- 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
- 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
- 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
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