Theological Libraries and Library Associations in Europe

Leo Kenis, STD, PhD (1990) KU Leuven, is Emeritus Professor of church history at that University. He has published on the contemporary history of Catholicism, including, as editor with Marc Lindeijer, The Survival of the Jesuits in the Low Countries, 1773-1850 (Leuven University Press, 2019).Penelope R. Hall, M.Div., Ph.D., D.D., has worked internationally in the field of theological education for over 40 years, teaching, writing, editing texts for in-house publications, and editing for such publishers as T. & T. Clark, Orbis and the United Bible Societies.Marek Rostkowski is a Catholic priest with a doctorate in Missiology from the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome (2007). He was Head Librarian of Pontifical Missionary Library and Library of Pontifical Urbaniana University in Vatican City (2000-2016), Editor-in-Chief of Bibliographia Missionaria, and Vice-President of BETH from 2012 to 2016.

• IntroductionIntroductionEinführungContributorsPart 1: Theological and Religious Libraries, Past and Present1 Tolerating Theology Libraries in England: The Libraries of Anglicans and ‘Others’ since the English ReformationAnna James2 Theological Libraries in OxfordHannie Riley3 World Mission to World Christianity: The Changing Identity of a Mission Library through a Century of Historical Change in Church and SocietyRuth MacLean4 Historic Church-Libraries in the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in ThuringiaHagen Jäger and Johannes Röder5 The Sub-Library of Theology of the University Library of Würzburg Difficulties and Challenges in the Past and FutureOliver Weinreich6 Just Stewardship – A Self-Affirmative Inquiry into the Legacy of the Hungarian Ecclesiastical LibrariesÁgnes Bálint7 The History of Development and the Challenges of the Present in the Theological Collection of the Ukrainian Catholic University LibraryIvanna Papa and Oleksandra Hladysh8 Elements for a Sketch of the Italian Ecclesiastical LibrariesStefano Maria Malaspina9 Heritage Management in Monastery and Seminary Libraries in the NetherlandsOtto S. Lankhorst10 The Theology Library of UCLouvain: From Leuven to Louvain-la-Neuve (1970–2020)Geneviève Bricoult and Luc Courtois11 The Maurits Sabbe Library in a Digital Environment: Collection Management Challenges of an Academic Theological Library in the 21st CenturyWard De PrilPart 2: Networks, Instruments, Media, Resources …12 ‘Informatique & Bible’ (Maredsous Abbey) and the Beginnings of Computerisation in the Religious LibrariesR.-Ferdinand Poswick, OSB13 From Individual Card Catalogues to the National Union Catalogue: A Story of the Computerisation of Polish Church LibrariesJerzy Witczak14 The BeWeB Portal: a Virtual Service for Italian Ecclesiastical LibrariesAdriano Belfiore, Francesca Maria D’Agnelli, Valerio Pennasso, and Silvia Tichetti15 Negotiating a Future for Convent Libraries: KADOC-KU Leuven and Heritage Partnerships in Flanders (Belgium)Katrien Weyns and Kristien Suenens16 Disclosing Thematic Collections in a Rapidly Digitalizing World: Jesuitica at the Maurits Sabbe LibraryYannick Van Loon17 Historical and Media-Theoretical Implications of a Modern International Bibliography: Origin, Development and Future of the Index Theologicus in the Context of Other Specialised BibliographiesMartin Faßnacht18 Building the Corpus Christianorum: A Short History of the First 75 YearsBart Janssens, Mathijs Lamberigts, and Johan Leemans19 BETH, Springboard for the Opening of the IFLA RELINDIAL Group ‘Religions: Libraries and Dialogue’Odile Dupont and Donatus DüsterhausPart 3: BETH: The Association and Its MembersEdited by Matina ĆurićBibliothèques Européennes de Théologie BETHAppendix: BETH 1972–2022: Names and DatesIndex

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