Bristol Baptist College Library

City/town

Bristol

address

The Promenade, Clifton Down, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 3NJ

Telephone

0117 9467050

Contact & Job Title

Michael Brealey, Librarian

Purpose & main user community of the library

Serving staff and students of the College

Terms of access

By appointment

Opening hours

9–5 Monday to Friday

Disabled access

Level access and lift to upper floors

Lending to other libraries & visitors

To ABTAPL libraries on request

Number of volumes

36,000

Periodicals – Back Issues

45

Current Periodicals

35

Other materials

Microfilms, audio-visual

Volumes added per year

800–1000

Coverage

Theology, church history, missiology, sociology, Dissenting history and theology, especially Baptist, Anabaptism

Special Collections

17th–19th century printed books and pamphlets, chiefly theology and Baptist history

Manuscripts

Manuscripts of founders and supporters of the College, previous staff, more generally of Baptist and Dissenting figures

Research resource

Baptist history and theology, history of academies and libraries

Catalogue Type

electronic

Other facilities

Photocopying and scanning

Part Time Staff

1