Online Library Catalogs
The PRTS Online Catalog includes the entire collections of the seminary library, Kuyper College’s Zondervan Library, and Cornerstone University’s Miller Library. You may restrict your search to PRTS Library by selecting “PRTS” rather than “View Entire Collection.”
The Cornerstone University Library Network (CULN) exists to foster cooperation between its member libraries and to share the integrated library system of Miller Library with participating libraries. PRTS partners with the CULN by including its library holdings in one shared online catalog.
PRTS students have the same borrowing privileges and responsibilities at Kuyper and Cornerstone’s library as they do as PRTS – and books generally may be renewed online for an additional four weeks via “My Account” (located in right-hand column under “My Library.”) To check out books at Kuyper or Cornerstone simply provide your name and PRTS ID# when you go to check out. Zondervan Library hours of operation are Monday through Thursday 8 am to 10 pm; Friday 8 am to 4:30 pm; and Saturday 10 am to 5 pm. Miller Library hours of operation are generally 7:30 am to midnight, Monday – Thursday, but closing on 5pm on Friday and Saturday.
- PeRT (Puritan Electronic Research Tool). This Scripture Index File, years in the making, contains literally hundreds of thousands of Scripture citations, from every chapter of the Bible, and is now accessible online. You will be able to search for Scriptures references from thousands of PRTS Library books, periodicals and other Library resources. The author and title of the source are provided, with relevant page numbers.
- PRTS has a Public Domain Library collection of digital books on our student computers in the library. Hundreds of books of theology and history have been downloaded from online public domain sources and organized by period and author. This collection is especially strong in the Puritan writers. It contains nineteenth-century reprints of the works of major Puritan authors like John Owen and John Flavel. It also includes many early editions as well, such as Samuel Bolton’s True Bounds of Christian Freedom (1656) and Jonathan Edwards’s Religious Affections (1746). But it also holds patristic, medieval, Reformation, and later texts as well. Unlike bare text files, these are digital images of published books and therefore are citable for academic research. In many cases the pdf files can also be searched for words and phrases. None of these books was downloaded from services such as EEBO requiring a license or fee. All the books in this digital library can be freely copied by students and visitors for their personal use and research.
Grand Valley State University Library
Hekman Library (Calvin College)
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Dissertations
TREN: Theological Research Exchange Network-TREN is a library of over 10,000 theological thesis/dissertation titles representing research from as many as 70 different institutions. ThM dissertations from Westminster Theological Seminary are available (for purchase) from 1984 to current. DMin projects from WTS are available from1986 onward. TREN also makes available conference papers presented at annual meetings of several academic societies.
