Last updated |
6th January 2020 |
Name of library |
Belben Library |
Address |
Belben Library, Cliff College, Calver, Hope Valley, Derbyshire S32 3XG |
Telephone |
01246 584217 |
Fax |
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E-mail |
Librarian@cliffcollege.ac.uk |
Website |
https://www.cliffcollege.ac.uk/about/library/ |
Alternative names |
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Contact & Job Title |
Sarah Beard, Librarian |
Purpose & main user community of the library |
Cliff College’s purpose is to resource the students that attend validated courses. Our main users are students studying for validated Undergraduate, Masters and Doctoral degrees in mission, ministry and theology. However, we do have several external readers who find our library helpful for their ministry. |
Terms of access |
Anyone can browse the library, but only students of the college and those registered as external readers have borrowing rights. |
Opening hours |
Mon-Thur: 10.00-16.00, Fri: 10.00-14.00 |
Disabled access |
Yes |
Lending to other libraries & visitors |
Visitors are welcome to use our library for reference but must become an external reader to able to have borrowing rights. This is £25 per year. |
Number of volumes |
33,000 in the main library, 41,000 including other collections across the Cliff College site. |
Periodicals – Back Issues |
100 |
Current Periodicals |
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Other materials |
Extant manuscripts, mainly pertaining to mission history |
Volumes added per year |
500 |
Coverage |
- Children, youth and family ministry
- Wesleyan theology and spirituality
- Women in the Bible
- Evangelism
- Christian leadership
- Pentecostal and charismatic studies
- Christian spirituality
- Missiology
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Special Collections |
Cliff College Archives and British Wesleyan Holiness and Evangelical tradition |
Manuscripts |
Primary texts relating to Cliff College, and some relating to the Methodist Missionary Movement and one or two pertaining to John Wesley’s own collection |
Research resource |
Anyone wishing to seek out primary material relating to the Wesleyan Missionary Society, various branches of non-Wesleyan Methodism, the Joyful News Association and the concatenated parts that contributed to what has become Cliff College, and various other papers relating to the Wesleyan Holiness Tradition. |
Catalogue Type |
Heritage |
URL of catalogue |
http://remote.cliffcollege.ac.uk/heritage/ |
Other facilities |
Photocopying |
Full Time Staff |
Librarian |
Part Time Staff |
none |
Voluntary Staff |
none |
Changes in next five years affecting the above |
Cliff College’s website is due to be updated soon, including the Belben Library page |
Anything else about the library |
The library uses the Dewey Decimal System and Heritage computer software and is a member of the Theological Heritage User Group |