Resources for International Theological Libraries

See Digital Lending at Wright Library for more information

DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.

The Internet Archive provides digital versions of :

735 billion web pages
41 million books and texts
14.7 million audio recordings (including 240,000 live concerts)
8.4 million videos (including 2.4 million Television News programs)
4.4 million images
890,000 software programs

In-copyright books can be borrowed digitally after creating a free account.

Princeton Theological Seminary is a contributor.

The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform inscriptions dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3350 BC. A number of these artifacts are currently kept in public and private collections to exceed 500,000 exemplars, of which now more than 360,000 have been catalogued in electronic form by the CDLI.

Papyri.info has two primary components. The Papyrological Navigator (PN) supports searching, browsing, and aggregation of ancient papyrological documents and related materials; the Papyrological Editor (PE) enables multi-author, version controlled, peer reviewed scholarly curation of papyrological texts, translations, commentary, scholarly metadata, institutional catalog records, bibliography, and images.

Books@atla Open Press

The Theological Librarian's Handbook is a multi-volume guide to theological librarianship intended for library staff who do not possess professional training but nevertheless work in theological libraries all over the world. It provides free and self-paced library training written by theological librarians working in different types of theological libraries and institutions.

Atla Open Press publishes open access books, journals, and other serials that cover subjects at the intersection of librarianship and religious and theological studies that potentially impact libraries, that guide and support innovative library services, that enhance professional development for religious studies and theological librarians, and that represent specialized topics of interest in religion and theology that are of relevance to the work of libraries in supporting the instructional and research activities of their institutions.

As a not-for-profit association of theological libraries and librarians, Atla understands the importance of supporting theological education throughout the world and has worked to make its products affordable for theological seminaries and schools in eligible developing countries. Atla works with EBSCO to offer institutions in countries designated developing by the World Bank, along with other related criteria, a generous discount on all Atla products and partner products.

The mission of the Global Digital Theological Library (Global DTL) is to make high quality digital content in religious studies available to academic institutions in the developing world in an economically feasible manner. The Global DTL seeks to accomplish this mission by licensing with publishers and vendors on behalf of these small institutions and creating one shared and professional managed, global library for their benefit.

Check out their Membership page if you are interested in joining the GLDTL.

Theological Book Network ships high-quality theological resources to under-resourced theological schools in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. Apply through their website.

Library Resources, Directories, and Downloadable and Interactive Resources

The world's first free and open source library system. Koha is a fully featured, scalable library management system. Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types and sizes, volunteers, and support companies worldwide.

Another open-source library software different from Koha as it is server based, meaning that once you download the program internet access is not required. OpenBiblio is an easy to use, automated library system written in PHP containing OPAC, circulation, cataloging, and staff administration functionality.

LibraryThing helps you create and track a library-quality catalog of your media—books (along with movies and music) you own, have read, want to read, etc.

For small libraries like classrooms, community centers, and churches, we designed TinyCat, which turns your LibraryThing account into a simple, professional online catalog, ideal for patron browsing and circulation.

For big libraries, we offer LibraryThing for Libraries—OPAC enhancements that make your catalog more engaging and informative.

One of the ways that Wright Library serves scholars all over the world is by negotiating electronic access to some of its databases for alumni. The Seminary has 12,000 alumni, many of them serving outside of the United States. Their degree from Princeton Seminary allows them to have electronic access to an extensive collection of digital resources.