NYDS students have multiple library resources available to them to enhance the quality and quantity of their learning content, and to facilitate their positive attitude and practiced skills for life-long learning. First, all students are required to utilize the NYDS Library, including books, periodicals, recordings and DVDs. To assist them, every student is offered a CD with the complete Library catalogue, so that they can search for books wherever they are. Second, all students will be required to utilize the Center for the Humanities of the New York Public Library, just two blocks from the Seminary. This single Library has 15 million books on 172 miles of shelving, counting all the collections. As many as 1.5 million books are on subjects addressed by seminary courses – including special collections. This Library also holds a copy of the Gutenberg Bible, the Tyndale Bible and the largest single collection of the famed Dead Sea scrolls. Students will be required to do some of their research at this famed Library, perhaps the largest Library in the world. Become introduced to the system by first visiting the Reading Room on the third floor to receive a free access card. Then visit the Catalogue room on the third floor, and type in an author’s name or the title of some books to obtain their special code numbers, fill out a request slip, and receive the books from the Librarians. At least two branches of the New York Public Library or other public library systems should also be visited, early in the student’s seminary experience, to see what is available – especially at a library near where the student ministers, and another near where the student lives. Public library resources may or may not be useful for seminary studies. The Christian Classics Ethereal Library (www.ccel.org) can be accessed through the Internet. All books are in the public domain (unless specified) and can be copied freely for any purpose. Some additional internet sources are available at www.bhcti.org/index.cfm?action=onlineresources. NYDS students have partial access to twenty large ministry libraries in the New York metropolitan area listed below. For some of these libraries there are free access and borrowing privileges; for others an annual fee is required. The total holdings of these twenty libraries include more than 3,000,000 books, not counting journals, microfilm, and other library resources. Alliance Theological Seminary 350 North Highland Avenue Nyack, NY 10960 914-353-2020 x388 American Bible Society 1865 Broadway New York, NY 10023 212-408-1205 Drew University Rose Memorial Library Madison, NJ 07940 201-408-3322 Fordham University Duane Library Bronx, NY 10458 718-817-3570 General Theological Seminary St. Mark's Library 175 Ninth Ave. New York, NY 1011 212-243-5150 George Mercer, Jr. Memorial School of Theology Library 65 Fourth Street Garden City, NY 11530 516-248-4800 x73 Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion The Kiau Library One W. 4th Street New York, NY 10012 Dr. 212-674-5300 Seton Hall University Imaculate Conception Seminary Library 400 S. Orange Ave. S. Orange, NJ 07079 201-761-9584 Jewish Theological Seminary 3080 Broadway New York, NY 10027 212-678-8982 Library of the Institute for Advance Studies of World Religions Rd. 2, Route 301 Carmel, NY 10512 516-689-5207 914-225-1445 Maryknoll Society Library Ryder Road Maryknoll, NY 10545 914-941-7590 x2515 New Brunswick Theological Seminary 21 Seminary Place New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1159 908-247-5243 New York Theological Seminary 475 Riverside Drive New York, NY 212-532-4012 x33 Nyack College 1 South Blvd. Nyack, NY 10960 914-358-1710 x105 Princeton Theological Seminary Robert E. Speer Library Box 111 Princeton, NJ 08542 609-497-7940 Seminary of the Immaculate Conception 440 West Neck Road Huntington, NY 11743 516-423-0483 St. Joseph's Seminary 201 Seminary Ave. Yonkers, NY 10704 914-968-6200 St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary 575 Scarsdale Road Crestwood, NY 10707 914-961-8313 Union Theological Seminary The Burke Library 3041 Broadway New York, NY 10027-5792 212-280-1505 Yeshiva University Mendel Gottesman Library of Hebraic/Judaica 500 West 185th St. New York, NY 10033 212-960-5382
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