JSTOR DB3 Competency

Database: JSTOR

Naïve Question: What are the archiving practices and history of theological libraries?

Facets: History, Archives, and Theological Libraries

Search Strategy – Building block search

Facets History Archives Thelogical Libraries

My search terms History archiving thelogical libraries

Historical

thesaurus Church History archives theological library

historical libraries archiving

SS1: Boolean Search statement (theological library) and (history or church history or historical libraries) and (archives or archiving)

Results: 7796

Unfortunatley this database does not provide futher subject headings to choose from for another search, so I decide to employ limiters, I limit to only articles and only English

SS2: Boolean Search statement (theological library) and (history or church history or historical libraries) and (archives or archiving) with limiters Articles and English

Results: 4067

I further limit the results by choosing the disciplines of Religion, History, and language and literature

SS2: Boolean Search statement (theological library) and (history or church history or historical libraries) and (archives or archiving) with limiters of disciplines Religion, History, and language and literature

Results 2816

This is still a lot of articles, but it has been narrowed down, so I decide to sift through the results and see if I can find anything interesting. I find an article that peaks my interest here is the screen shot:

This article talks about the archives, libraries, and museums attached to a seminary in Poland. It gives an interesting account of the history of these places.