Database: Academic Search Complete
Naïve Question: What are the archiving practices and history of theological libraries?
Facets: History, Archives, and Theological Libraries
Search Strategy four – browsing search
I use directed browsing to look at subject terms and look at religious libraries, where I am able to add search terms, so I add "BIBLE college libraries" or "CHRISTIAN libraries" or "CHURCH libraries" or "THEOLOGICAL libraries" or "RELIGIOUS archives" which yields 67 results and I find this article about preservation, which included the subject headings online databases and theological libraries:
and this article about the history of the Princeton Theological library, which included the subject headings, libraries, theological libraries, and religious libraries:
I then used directed browsing to look at Archives and while there were a lot of different subject headings under this topic I decided to look at just ""CHURCH archives" or "RELIGIOUS archives" since they relate the most closely to my question. I found one article that looks at the archiving practices, not of a specific library, but of religious materials in general. The article had only two subject headings, Church Archives and Archivists:
The searching was time consuming, but I feel like I found some good material. If my question was posed for an undergradute writing a paper, I believe that having a variety of articles about the different facets would be beneficial. The database is large and covers a wide variety of topics, which makes it ideal for someone with a broad question, such as the one that I posed.
Overall Observations:
Although my browsing did not turn up a plethora of results, some of the ones that I found were really great and very interesting. The article on the history of the Princeton Theological Seminary Library gave some great information about the history and collection practices of the theological library.
