Theological and Religious Studies Collection Directory

Name of Library:

Reference Library

Address:

Bristol Central Library, College Green, Bristol BS1 5TL

Town:

Bristol

Telephone:

0117 903 7202

Fax:

0117 903 7436

E-mail:

jane.choules@bristol.gov.uk

Website:

http://www.bristol-city.gov.uk

Alternative names

Contact

Jane Choules

Job Title

Stock Manager

Purpose and main user community of the library

Serves general public

Terms of access

Immediately accessibly for non-members with restrictions on some rare and valuable material

Opening hours

M, Tu, and Th 09.30-19.30; W, F, and Sat 09.30-17.00; Sun 13.00-17.00

Disabled access

There is now wheelchair access via a ramp at the west end of the building and a lift.

Lending

Yes

We will lend certain categories of material subject to ILL procedures

Volumes

11,000

Periodicals - Back Issues

Current Periodicals

Other

Only mss applicable chiefly Bibles, homilies, sermons and missals. There are CD-ROMs of

the Sherborne Missal and Lindisfarne Gospels. Sacred Texts CD.

Volumes added per year

Coverage

Christianity

Special Collections

Manuscript

Bibles, missals

Research resource

In the past, the library was responsible for buying Christian doctrine and dogma under the

national subject specialisation scheme.

Catalogue Type

Computer, card and book

URL of catalogue

Other facilities

Photocopying, microform copying, word processing, WWW, email, scanner, wi-fi

Full Time Staff

Part Time Staff

Voluntary Staff