Database: Worldcat
Naïve Question: What are the archiving practices and history of theological libraries?
Facets: History, Archives, and Theological Libraries
Search Strategy One – Specific Facet
Search for Thelogical Libraries (subject)
Results: 1,363 1,295 in english
Observations: this database shows promise, this search tells me I might find something
Search Strategy Two – Building block search
Facets History Archives Thelogical Libraries
My search terms History archiving thelogical libraries
Historical
thesaurus Church History archives theological library
historical libraries
church archives
SS1: Boolean Search statement (theological library) and (history or church history) and (archives or historical libraries or church archives) subject search
Results: 5 articles
Observations: none of these article are terribly relevant so I decide to expand my search to a keyword, rather than subject search
SS2: (theological library) and (history or church history) and (archives or historical libraries or church archives) keyword search
Results: 196, 168 in english
Observations: I scanned through the results and found two articles that looked interesting.
The first article gives a kind of history of the American Theological Library Assocaition and the second article is more about how church historians work together with the library. Both are not exactly the answer to my question but they both give a historical perspective to theological libraries.
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