Last updated | 3rd June 2009 |
Name of library | Orchard Learning Resources Centre |
Address | University of Birmingham, Hamilton Drive, Weoley Park Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 6QW |
Telephone | 0121 471 4601 |
Fax | |
library@bham.ac.uk | |
Website | http://www.is.bham.ac.uk/ls/libraries/olrc/collections.shtml |
Alternative names | University of Birmingham Information Services |
Contact & Job Title | David Pulford; Karen Jackson, Subject Advisor |
Purpose & main user community of the library | University undergraduate and research library; main users are students and staff of the university |
Terms of access | http://www.is.bham.ac.uk/ls/borrowing/borrowing.shtml |
Opening hours | http://www.is.bham.ac.uk/open/ |
Disabled access | Automatic doors; Wheelchair Access; Accessible toilets; Parking for people with disabilities; Quiet/Silent Study area |
Lending to other libraries & visitors | ILL via BLDSC. No individual lending to non-members. Research students and academics from other institutions can apply to become borrowing members |
Number of volumes | 46,000 (religious studies); Access to resources at University of Birmingham Main Library |
Periodicals – Back Issues | 260 |
Current Periodicals | 80 |
Other materials | Microfilm collections; CD-ROMs and online databases |
Volumes added per year | |
Coverage | Philosophy of religion, religion and society, classical religion and philosophy, African religions, Christianity (history, early literature, church fathers, missions, women and the church, papacy, Church of England, Methodism), Bibles (texts, commentaries, hermeneutics), holocaust studies, gay and black theologies New Religious Movements |
Special Collections | The Harold Turner Collection of over 26,000 documents on the subjects of African Initiated Churches and analogous movements in other continents, particularly in Third World contexts. Access to the collection is restricted and by prior arrangement only. Details of collections at http://www.special-coll.bham.ac.uk |
Manuscripts | The Mingana Collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts: The largest collection of illuminated Middle Eastern manuscripts, after the Vatican and the Bibliothèque Nationale in France |
Research resource | New Religious Movements ; African religions (especially West Africa); early Christian literature and church Fathers; pre-reformation church history; early Bible versions; missions; history of the church in Spain; history of the church in Great Britain; Church of England government and clergy; Papacy |
Catalogue Type | Computer, card (digitised) for items acquired before 1972 |
URL of catalogue | http://library.bham.ac.uk |
Other facilities | hotcopying, microfilm/fiche reader-printers. No access to electronic resources except library catalogue |
Full Time Staff | 7 |
Part Time Staff | 9 |
Voluntary Staff | |
Changes in next five years affecting the above | Online Catalogue entries for Harold Turner Collection |
Anything else about the library |