Löhe Memorial Library Collections

Main collection
Periodicals collection
Rare book collection
Media collection

As of January 2010 the complete collection comprised approximately 90,000 books and 13,400 bound volumes of periodicals. The library subscribes to 255 current periodicals and there is also a small collection of media items.

Main collection

The collection is strong in the following subject areas: Biblical Studies (both Old and New Testament), Church History, Systematic Theology, Pastoral Theology, Liturgics and Education. The collection is of research quality in the areas of New Testament, Luther Studies, and Reformation Theology, in particular Lutheran Confessional Theology. Significant also are holdings relating to the study of Education which have been built up in support of Master of Education courses.

Periodicals collection

The library holds extended runs of hard copy journals in the same subject areas as the monograph collection. A growing number of titles are able to be accessed as e-journals and additional items are available through online full text databases. [See Online Resources].

Rare book collection

One of the features of the library is the rare book collection, which includes a large collection of German rare books (about 1400). The oldest book is a 1521 edition of St Ambrose ‘Concerning Priestly Worthiness’ bound together with a 1523 edition of St Isidore ‘Concerning Ecclesiastical Offices’.

There is also a 1522 edition of Erasmus' translation of the Epistles of Paul. Of exceptional beauty is a hand-painted pictorial Bible, translated by Martin Luther and published by Hans Lufft in 1550.

Media collection

There is a growing collection of media items, including CDs, DVDs, CD-ROMs, and multimedia kits. Some of these are loan items and others are part of the Reference collection. They include an indexed set of the Australian Lutheran on CD-ROM, recordings of lectures and dramatised readings of the Bible on MP3CD. The media collection is supplemented by a number of Online databases. [See Online Resources]

Updated: 06/07/2010 [1.01]