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Collections and resources
We offer outstanding resources to research students and visiting scholars.
The Centre has its own research library of historic books and pamphlets on world Christianity.
It also has a unique and extensive archive of special collections in the history of world Christianity and the missionary movement.
We have our own reading room as well.
Visitors on sabbatical or study leave are welcome.
Holdings
The collections include:
- the archives of Action Partners (formerly the Sudan United Mission)
- Latin Link (formerly the Evangelical Union of South America)
- the Regions Beyond Missionary Union
There are also extensive runs of nineteenth- and twentieth-century mission periodicals.
Our holdings include:
- A collection of periodicals relating to the churches of Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Pacific.
- A corpus of monographs, pamphlets and ephemera relating to the churches of Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Pacific, including large quantities of Christian literature produced there.
- The archives of certain missionary societies, and a substantial collection of private papers, missionary papers and others. Other missionary archives are held on microfiche.
- The Butler collection on non-Western Christian art.
Access
All books and pamphlets in the Centre's collection are catalogued by the University Library's catalogue.
The Centre's archives are not yet catalogued, and scholars or visiting students wishing to access the special collections are requested to make an appointment in advance with the Director.
Information on the archive collection is available on both the Mundus project website and on the Archives Hub.
Associated resources
New College Library is one of the premier theological collections in Britain, comprising some 250,000 volumes.
The National Library of Scotland, a library of record for the United Kingdom, is a five-minute walk from New College.
This article was published on Mar 7, 2011