Last updated |
18th February 2019 |
Name of library |
OCMS Library |
Address |
St. Philip & St. James Church, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR |
Telephone |
01865 655292 |
Fax |
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E-mail |
rbates@ocms.ac.uk |
Website |
http://www.ocms.ac.uk |
Alternative names |
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Contact & Job Title |
Ralph Bates, Librarian |
Purpose & main user community of the library |
Resources for OCMS Ph.D. students & faculty; Bodleian Library Readers |
Terms of access |
Open access to all researchers |
Opening hours |
9-5 Monday-Friday |
Disabled access |
Compatible |
Lending to other libraries & visitors |
Reference only. No interlibrary loans |
Number of volumes |
18,000 |
Periodicals – Back Issues |
Transformation (complete); Exchange journals (incomplete) |
Current Periodicals |
Transformation and 30 exchanges + Brill subscriptions |
Other materials |
OCMS Theses & dissertations; conferences, reports; Pamphlets; ephemera; audio-visual materials |
Volumes added per year |
500 |
Coverage |
Mission Studies: churches & development organizations; Global South theology (Academic / practitioner) |
Special Collections |
Research methodology |
Manuscripts |
OCMS archive 1983- ; Including INFEMIT and affiliations |
Research resource |
Access to Bodleian Libraries (University of Oxford) |
Catalogue Type |
Online; Dewey Decimal Classification |
URL of catalogue |
SOLO http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
OCMS http://www.ocms.ac.uk/community/library/catalogue.php |
Other facilities |
Photocopier/Scanner; public use computer; study carrels. Regnum Books International (publications for sale) |
Full Time Staff |
Librarian |
Part Time Staff |
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Voluntary Staff |
Bookshelver (once a week); Archivist (2 days per week); Assistant archivist (1 morning); assistant for non-book materials (1 morning) |
Changes in next five years affecting the above |
Retirement of Librarian (2020) |
Anything else about the library |
Housed in Grade 1 listed Victorian Church |