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Category Archives: Special Collections

Slavery and Anglicanism in the Long 18th Century: Celebrating Black History Month

Posted on February 14, 2013 by kellerlibrary • 1 Comment

The Christoph Keller, Jr. Library is known throughout the Anglican world for having extensive special collections that focus on historic materials relating to the Episcopal Church. We’ve had an amazing time these past few weeks getting ready to show the world a sampling of materials relating to slavery. Many of the items on display come… Continue Reading

Additional random resources

Posted on December 13, 2012 by kellerlibrary • 0 Comments

We’ve updated our Library Information Resources page, and here’s the new stuff for your perusal. Enjoy, but don’t avoid your GOE review looking at cool digital images! The Journal of Episcopal Church Canon Law is a refereed journal, published online twice a year in February and July. The Virginia Theological Seminary hosts the journal on… Continue Reading

Storm Update #4: The Keller Library is open even in the dark

Posted on November 2, 2012 by kellerlibrary • 4 Comments

Now that the subway is back (at least partially), your reference librarian was able to get down to the Keller Library and check on things. Here’s some visual proof that the Library has survived and that the good folks on the Close are making do the best they can. The Library webpage still redirects to… Continue Reading

Post-Storm Update–The Keller Library has survived the storm

Posted on October 30, 2012 by kellerlibrary • 1 Comment

The Close is without power, and your reference librarian can’t get anywhere near to see for herself, but we have it on good authority from our fearless Library Director Drew Kadel that the Library has survived the storm just fine. We are not open for business per se, as there’s no power or internet and… Continue Reading

Revolution!

Posted on October 12, 2012 by kellerlibrary • 1 Comment

In anticipation of the upcoming 2012 federal election, the Christoph Keller, Jr. Library looks back to the birth of the United States for our latest exhibition. Drawn from the Library’s rich collections of eighteenth-century materials, the items on display document the American Revolution from its causes in the 1760s to its aftermath in the Confederation… Continue Reading

Hebrew Treasures at the Keller Library

Posted on September 14, 2012 by kellerlibrary • 2 Comments

This fall, rare book specialist and technical services librarian Patrick Cates and your reference librarian Mary Robison put their heads together and decided to show off some of the other rare materials we have that relate to Hebrew and the Old Testament. Just after the beginning of the Michaelmas term, the longstanding tradition in the… Continue Reading

Visiting rare illustrated Bibles at the Keller Library

Posted on September 10, 2012 by kellerlibrary • 3 Comments

Barbara Mundy, Associate Professor of Art History at Fordham University, paid us a visit last week and spent some time in the Julius Cruse Rare Book Reading Room. She’s been doing research on illustrated Bibles and Christian art in Mexico and graciously allowed your reference librarian to persuade her to write us about what she’s… Continue Reading