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Northern Seminary Library Hours
Open to students during Northern Seminary office hours.
To check out any physical book(s) from Northern Seminary Library (Lisle Campus) follow sign-out instructions placed on the library tables so that a librarian can check out desired books to your student library account.
Contact Northern Seminary Library
Call: (630) 620-2115
Email: library@seminary.edu
Northern Seminary Address
410 Warrenville Road
Suite 300
Lisle, IL 60532
Director of Library Sciences and Educational Technology
Thomas Lyons
Email: tlyons@seminary.edu
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For Students and Faculty Outside of Illinois:
- We strongly suggest taking advantage of the InterLibrary Loan system in your home state by becoming a patron of a local public library or community college library. This will grant you access to physical books from participating colleges, universities, seminaries, and other public libraries.
- Check out if a member ATLA library is in your area.
- While we have discontinued the library COVID policy of mailing physical books, it may be possible to scan portions of physical books or articles in the Northern Seminary Library (and even I-Share ordered books that can be sent to Northern for such scanning). Please reach out to the library to see if this option might work for the research materials you are seeking out.
For Students and Faculty in Illinois:
- All I-Share materials can be picked up during regular Northern Seminary office hours.
- Drop off all returning books, both for I-Share and the Northern Seminary Library, by using the library drop-box outside the front doors of Northern Seminary (Lisle).
- All InterLibrary Loan materials received through I-Share can be picked up or dropped off at any participating Illinois I-Share library.
Northern Seminary Library (Lisle) is closed on all Seminary-observed holidays.
Links to Help You Begin Your Research:
DIGITAL THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY 2
A digital resource containing 1.5 million eBooks, 60k journal titles and over 140 databases.
To login, you will need to select “Northern Seminary” in the drop-down menu and use the institutional access code available via the “Library Links” tab in Populi or by contacting the librarian.
BOOK SEARCH
Contains links to I-Share, Northern’s online catalog and other resources
Use your Northern Seminary email address and password to login to I-Share and your online library account.
ONLINE RESOURCES
Contains links to full-text resources available to Northern Seminary students, staff, and faculty
Use your Northern Seminary email address and password to login to online resources.
OTHER LIBRARIES
Contains links to consortia of regional and national participating libraries
ACTS, ATLA, CARLI and I-Share
OTHER ONLINE RESOURCES
Contains links to additional freely available Internet resources.