Theological Libraries and Library Associations in Europe

A Festschrift on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of BETH

Leo Kenis, Penelope R. Hall, Marek Rostkowski

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Brill
18 August 2022

Library & information sciences; Storage, maintenance & preservation of collections

During the past 50 years, theological libraries have confronted secularisation and religious pluralism, along with revolutionary technological developments that brought not only significant challenges but also unexpected opportunities to adopt new instruments for the transfer of knowledge through the automation and computerisation of libraries. This book shows how European theological libraries tackled these challenges; how they survived by redefining their task, by participating in the renewal of scholarly librarianship, and by networking internationally. Since 1972, BETH, the Association of European Theological Libraries, has stimulated this process by enabling contacts among a growing number of national library associations all over Europe.

Volume editor: Leo Kenis, Penelope R. Hall, Marek Rostkowski
Imprint: Brill
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 40mm
Weight: 1.118kg
ISBN: 9789004523180
ISBN 10: 9004523189
Pages: 500
Publication Date: 18 August 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Leo Kenis, STD, PhD (1990) KU Leuven, is Emeritus Professor of church history at that University. He has published on the contemporary history of Catholicism, including, as editor with Marc Lindeijer, The Survival of the Jesuits in the Low Countries, 1773-1850 (Leuven University Press, 2019). Penelope R. Hall, M.Div., Ph.D., D.D., has worked internationally in the field of theological education for over 40 years, teaching, writing, editing texts for in-house publications, and editing for such publishers as T. & T. Clark, Orbis and the United Bible Societies. Marek Rostkowski is a Catholic priest with a doctorate in Missiology from the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome (2007). He was Head Librarian of Pontifical Missionary Library and Library of Pontifical Urbaniana University in Vatican City (2000-2016), Editor-in-Chief of Bibliographia Missionaria, and Vice-President of BETH from 2012 to 2016.

Reviews for Theological Libraries and Library Associations in Europe: A Festschrift on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of BETH

""So kann die Festschrift ungeachtet ihrer großen thematischen Vielfalt und einer gewissen Engführung mancher Aufsätze sehr wohl als ein sinnvolles Informationsmittel zur Geschichte und Gegenwart der theologischen und kirchlichen Bibliothekswelt in Europa dienen."" Agnes Winter, Theologische Literaturzeitung 149 (2024), 5, 381-383.