Princeton Theological Seminary Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Libraries=== [[Image:Wright Library at Princeton Theological Seminary side view.jpg|thumb|right|Wright Library]] The Wright Library is a destination for visiting scholars from around the world. The current library building was completed in 2013 and was renamed on October 13, 2021, after [[Theodore S. Wright]], the first African American to graduate from Princeton Theological Seminary.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-10-13 |title=Princeton Seminary Names Library After Theodore Sedgwick Wright |url=https://www.ptsem.edu/news/library-naming |access-date=2023-05-25 |website=Princeton Theological Seminary |language=en}}</ref> The library has over 1,252,503 bound volumes, pamphlets, and microfilms.<ref>[http://libweb.ptsem.edu/about.aspx Princeton Seminary Library] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517212807/http://libweb.ptsem.edu/about.aspx |date=2008-05-17 }}</ref> It receives about 2,100 journals, annual reports of church bodies and learned societies, bulletins, transactions, and periodically issued indices, abstracts, and bibliographies. The Libraries are: * Princeton Theological Seminary Library ("The Wright Library") was opened in 2013 and holds the bulk of the seminary's collection. The library is also home to the Center for Barth Studies,<ref>[[Karl Barth#Center for Barth Studies|Karl Barth>Center for Barth Studies]]</ref> the Reigner Reading Room,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ptsem.edu/library/collections/general/reigner/ |title=Reigner Christian Education Resource Collection |access-date=2014-06-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140605000835/http://www.ptsem.edu/library/collections/general/reigner/ |archive-date=2014-06-05 |url-status=live }}</ref> and special collections including the [[Abraham Kuyper]] collection of Dutch Reformed Protestantism and personal libraries of theologians like [[Ashbel Green]], [[William Buell Sprague]], [[Joseph Addison Alexander]], [[Alexander Balloch Grosart]], [[William Henry Green]], [[Samuel Miller (theologian)|Samuel Miller]], and [[B. B. Warfield]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ptsem.edu/library/about/ |title=Princeton Theological Seminary Library |access-date=2014-06-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140603155310/http://ptsem.edu/library/about/ |archive-date=2014-06-03 |url-status=live }}</ref> * Speer Library was opened in 1957 and named in honor of the renowned missionary statesman [[Robert E. Speer]]. It was closed in late 2010 and was replaced by the new library. * Henry Luce III Library, dedicated in 1994 and named in honor of a distinguished trustee, [[Henry W. Luce]], has 350,000 volumes and 250 readers. This library merged with Wright Library in 2013. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page