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About Brimson Grow Library
The mission of Brimson Grow Library is to support the educational work of
Northern Baptist Theological Seminary. The Library seeks to do this by offering
a substantial collection of books and periodicals for theological research,
enhanced by a wide variety of online research resources. To this is added
the commitment of the library staff to provide instruction informally
to individual researchers and formally in the classrom, making Brimson Grow
Library an integral part of the instructional services of the seminary.
Brimson Grow Library was formed in 1994 when the shared
libraries of Bethany and Northern Baptist Theological Seminaries were divided.
The remaining 45,000 volumes that form the core of the Brimson Grow Library
were moved into what had formerly been the Karpe Building, newly remodeled to
house the library collection and support the growing library network. Today,
the library has close to 50,000 monographic volumes and subscribes to over
290 current periodicals. The circulating collection
can be searched by anyone who accesses the
Libary's online catalog.
Over 30 online databases and digital resources are available to
researchers in the library, many of which can also be accessed from
off campus.
Resource sharing through library networks is another significant part of
the Library's access to theological research materials. Reciprocal
borrowing privileges are available at all of the
Association of Chicago
Theological Schools (ACTS) libraries as well as at 70 other academic
libraries in the CARLI I-Share
consortium. Courier service expedites the exchange
of materials between ACTS libraries; a separate courier service links
the Library to the rest of the libraries in the
DuPage Library System (DLS).
The
WorldCat database in FirstSearch provides access to over 58 million
items held at over 9,000 libraries worldwide.
Special collections at the library include the writings of John Peck and
Hubbel Loomis, materials on Baptist history, a C.S. Lewis collection
donated by Martha Atkins Emmert (B.R.E., 1949), and over 200 historic hymnals.
Brimson Grow
The Board of Trustees of
Northern Baptist Theological Seminary
takes great joy in naming the library for
Seminary Trustee Brimson Grow
for his life of witness and faithfulness to God
and his commitment to
Northern and quality theological education.
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