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About this blog
The “Towards 2014” blog is a small part of wider preparations for the 2014 bi-centenary of the Anglican Church in New Zealand. It was created and is maintained by the staff of the John Kinder Theological Library. We aim to showcase the breadth and depth of the library’s archival content, and engage with a wider audience online.
The John Kinder Theological Library holds unique resources (unique to theological libraries, archives and heritage repositories in N.Z and the world). This blog will make available some of the content turned up in our regular research for clients as well as our own contributions as professional librarians.
This blog is also a pilot for other theological libraries in New Zealand to demonstrate the pros and cons of this communications format.
About the library
The John Kinder Theological Library is the library and archive for the Anglican Church in Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia Te Hahi Mihinare ki Aotearoa ki Niu Tireni, ki Nga Moutere o Te Moana Nui a Kiwa. It was formerly known as the Kinder Library, St John’s Theological College.
The collection includes 85,000 books, DVDs, CDs and some older audio and video tapes, as well as both print and electronic copies of journals. Most resources are in the subject areas of Biblical study, theology, ministry, Anglicanism, church history, missions and pastoral care. There are smaller collections of Maori and Pacific resources, and extensive print and archive and manuscript collections in church history for New Zealand and parts of the Pacific.
The Library is a resource for the whole Anglican Church, not just for St John’s College. It also holds the former library from Trinity Methodist Theological College which has been on the St John’s College campus since 1973. The library is also a resource for the Methodist Church of New Zealand Te Hahi Weteriana O Aotearoa.
Vicki Cox said,
27/04/2010 at 6:21 pm
I am trying to authenticate the existance of a brass statue of Bishop Selwyn that would have been founded inLondon and passed through Auckland in the late 1800′s to early 1900′s on route to the Soloman Islands. I tried to find a site on the melanesian church website but to no avail. Vicki Cox
2010 in review « Towards 2014 said,
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