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| Name of Library: |
University of Birmingham Main Library |
| Address: |
Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT |
| Alternative names |
University of Birmingham Information Services |
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David Pulford; Karen Jackson |
| Purpose and main user community of the library |
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University undergraduate
and research library; main users are students and staff of the university |
| Wheelchair Access (limited) Ramped entrance
at side of building; Accessible toilets Parking for people with disabilities
Quiet/Silent Study area |
| No individual lending to non-members. Research students and academics from other |
| institutions can apply to become borrowing members |
| 46,000 (religious studies); Access to resources
at University of Birmingham Orchard Learning Resources Centre; 2,200,000 in
all subjects |
| Periodicals - Back Issues |
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Microfilm collections;
CD-ROMs and online databases; historical and modern maps |
| 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 |
| Church Mission Society archives; Catholic
Apostolic Church collection; archives of the YMCA;
Bishop Barnes papers; Church Pastoral Aid Society archives; papers of Rev Lesley
Weatherhead; STC microfilms: English books printed 1475-1640; Wing microfilms:
English
books printed 1641-1700; Eighteenth Century microfilms: English books printed
in C18;
Bengeworth library; Wigan library; St. Mary's Warwick library; Jerningham papers;
St. John's
College Nottingham archives; Hetherington Collection of Bibles; Books of Common
Prayer and metrical versions of the Psalms; various missions collections. Details
of collections at http://www.special-coll.bham.ac.uk |
| 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; |
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Computer, card (digitised)
for items acquired before 1972 |
| Photcopying, microfilm/fiche reader-printers. No access to electronic resources except library |
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