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Queen's College Library
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Students at Queen’s College have access to the holdings and resources of Memorial University Libraries. Through Queen’s College Affiliation Agreement with Memorial University, our book collection is held in the Queen Elizabeth II Library on St. John’s Campus. These holdings are available to all library users. We also purchase new materials through MUN Library and have them catalogued and accessible through the MUN Library system. Queen’s College students have access to the electronic services of MUN Library. Many journals and books are available in electronic format. All Queen’s students (part-time and full-time, distance and on-campus) have access to the resources of MUN Library.
Queen’s College also houses a modest theology-related Reading Room, which also functions as a study area with computer facilities.
The Queen Elizabeth II Library holds two major book collections from Queen’s College. In both cases Queen’s College retains ownership with the Queen Elizabeth II Library acting as steward. The first of the two collections, containing approximately four thousand items, is part of the Queen Elizabeth II Library’s main circulating collection. It is fully catalogued and accessible to all library users. The second collection is housed as one of Memorial’s rare collections in the Special Collections Unit. This collection of approximately thirty-five hundred works is searchable via an online bibliography and items from it can be read in the Archives and Special Collections reading room.
Among these books are some very rare and important editions, not the least of which is a Bishop’s Bible from 1585, a Geneva Bible from 1608, and a Scottish Book of Common Prayer from 1637 (first edition). Other Bibles of note include a second edition of the first translation of the Bible into Italian “La Sacra Bibbia” (1641), as well as a Bible in Greek, Latin and German printed in Hamburg in 1596. Excluding Bibles, there are interesting examples of early printed works, including a commentary on Homer by Eustathius, Bishop of Thessolonica, printed by Froben in 1560, and a commentary on the psalms, by Denis the Carthusian, printed in 1542. There is also a New Testament (1633) from the famous Harleian Library, bearing the signature of E. Harley (dated 1715). Finally, there is Elizabeth Twining’s Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants with Groups and Descriptions from 1849 and 1855.
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