Claremont Church Library

THE CLAREMONT CHURCH OF RELIGIOUS SCIENCE LIBRARY

Our Lending Library includes the Willena Michael Memorial Library, a special collection of books and periodicals focusing on the convergence of science with religion and philosophy. It currently holds about 500 volumes and is growing steadily. Soon the Willena Michael Collection will include video and audio resources as well.

The General Collection includes about 3,400 books and 80 videotapes. We have translations of the sacred texts of several religions, together with commentaries and devotional materials.

The Library is currently closed while the space is renovated to include an office for our Practitioners. We are using the “down time” to reorganize and catalog our holdings on computer according to the Library of Congress system. Eventually we will have audiotapes of our ministers, guest speakers, seminars and retreats cataloged by author, title and subject as well. (The last time an attempt was made to catalog the Library by subject was in 1968, when Emily Bazzare began to organize it according to the Dewey Decimal System. Unfortunately, no relics of this effort exist any longer.) With the new catalog system now being implemented, our collections will not only serve as a true reference and research library, but eventually our materials will be available for access over the Internet.

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