Do you have CDs or DVDs?
[Browse CDs] [Browse DVDs]
Yes. They are kept in the room behind the circulation desk.
Do you have videos? [Browse videos]
Yes. They are kept in the room behind the circulation desk.
Do you have recorded sermons? [Browse recorded sermons]
Audio recordings of sermons are available in many formats, including LP, CD, and audio cassette. The link above allows you to browse all of the recorded sermons. It is in date order, with the newest recordings first.
[To search for recorded sermons in a specific format, use the Advanced Keyword search page in CALVIN, enter "sermon*" as your keyword, then choose the format or formats you want from the list box.]
What are the Field Education Resources (F.E.R.) materials and where do I find them?
[Browse F.E.R. resources]
Books, pamphlets, curriculum, and other materials marked F.E.R. are items that are useful for Christian education. They can be found on the second floor at the end of the stacks.
What newspapers do you get?
Current issues of these newspapers are on the coffee table in the periodicals reading area. Several weeks' back issues are kept on metal shelves near the beginning of the current periodicals. A total of about 3 months worth of back issues are kept (for these, ask at the circulation desk.) A complete list of all the periodicals received by the library is here.
What special collections does the library have? What is _____ named for?
The library has many special collections of materials and artifacts of
significance. The following is a brief summary of the named areas,
artifacts, and collections in the library. Links are provided to photographs if
appropriate, as well as to lists of materials in some of the named collections.
Clifford E. Barbour Library
Building funds provided by the Sarah Mellon Scaife and Richard K. Mellon Foundations. Named in honor of President Emeritus Clifford E. Barbour
Karl Barth Desk
The desk on which Barth wrote his volumes of the
Dogmatics, and given for permanent exhibit through son Markus Barth, faculty member at PTS.
Weingartner Sculpture
Angels Dancing on the Head of a Pin created and presented to the Seminary by Dr. Rudolph Weingartner in memory of his wife Fannia. Located in the library lobby.
Louis N. Grier Collection [Browse this collection]
A collection of books from the estate of Louis N. Grier, Chief Electrical Engineer of ALCOA. The collection is one book collector's lifetime effort to gather numerous single volumes and sets on literary subjects, examples of fine early printing, books on bookbinding, several first editions and a number of etchings. The collection was presented to the library by his family through his son, Louis N. Grier, Jr.
Frank Dixon McCloy Room (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Archives)
Gift of Ivella Kenney in memory of Frank Dixon McCloy, faculty member at Western and PTS
Theodore Finney Room (Warrington Collection) [Browse this collection]
The Warrington Hymnology Collection consists of hymnbooks as well as books about church music. James Warrington
(1841-1915), was a public accountant and sometime lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania who was interested in psalmody. His book Short Titles of Books Relating to Psalmody was a pioneer work in its field. Noted as an authority on the subject, he is quoted in many a work on Psalmody. His earlier collection of books on psalmody is in the Case Memorial Library at Hartford Theological Seminary. The books he collected in his later years were given to Western Theological Seminary and with the formation of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, these books became the nucleus of the Warrington Collection, to which were added many fine additions from Finney's private library.
Dr. Theodore M. Finney, curator of the Warrington Collection, was until his retirement, head of the music department at the University of Pittsburgh. Musician, composer, teacher, author and editor, he is well qualified to guide in the organization of this collection. The room housing the Warrington Collection is named in his honor. His summary of the development of the Warrington collection follows:
"Biographically, James Warrington proves to be an extremely elusive figure. He was born in Colchester, England, in 1841, and died in Philadelphia on October 4, 1915. The letterhead which he used in 1912 gives this information:
"Public Accountant and Auditor. New York and Philadelphia. Sometime Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania: Member of a Commission to simplify Post Office Accounts, etc." In 1886 he published Hymns and Tunes for the Children of the Church, with the imprint "Philadelphia: John R. Rue, Jr., Publisher." The same year a "Words only" edition of the same title was issued. The book is obviously for the use of the Episcopal Church; the Preface carries the location "St. Michael and All Angels." A few other of Warrington's activities can be traced. He acted in an advisory capacity in the preparation of The Hymnal, Presbyterian, 1895. In 1899 he entered into an agreement with the then Hartford Theological Seminary for the sale of his library. This apparently led to misunderstandings and recrimination, involving a 1904 court action which apparently never actually took place. Finally, as an act of frustration by a man past seventy, Warrington privately printed a booklet entitled The Story of an Unpunished Crime (Philadelphia, 1913) . This has value chiefly as the catalogue - from memory and consequently untrustworthy -of an important collection, most of which is in the Case Memorial Library at the Hartford Seminary Foundation.
The major work which Warrington projected, a history of American psalmody, never materialized. The value of his collecting and his work, however, may be gathered from such evidences as the number of times he is mentioned in O.G. Sonneck's Francis Hopkinson and James Lyon.
In 1914 Warrington began negotiations with Western Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh to have his "new" library go there at his death. Arrangements were completed with his widow in 1916, and the collection was transferred. It now reposes in the Barbour Memorial Library of the successor institution, The Pittsburgh Theological Seminary."
John Anderson Room
John Anderson was the first professor at Service Seminary, PTS' earliest antecedent seminary, founded in 1794.
Mason / Newburgh Collection [Browse portions of this collection]
John Mitchell Mason (1770-1829) collected a priceless collection of classical theological works dating from the Reformation period, to which have been added materials from the libraries of antecedent institutions of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.
Truxall Lounge
Student Lounge - gift of John D.S. Truxall in memory of his wife, Aida Craig Truxall
Hansen Room
Seminar Room - gift of Wm. S. and Nancy Hansen in memory of his parents, William Charles and Emma Stucki Hansen
Kunkle Room
Reading Room - gift of Jack and Nancy Kunkle in memory of his parents John H. and Clara Prasse Kunkle
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