Library

The intellectual heart of our seminary community, the library serves as the chief academic resource for the students and faculty of Mid-America.

Mid-America Reformed Seminary Library

The Library is the intellectual heart of our seminary community, serving as the chief academic resource for the students and faculty of Mid-America. In addition to the circulating collection of books, the reference and special collections, and the bound periodicals, the library has a number of resources—primarily computer databases, A/V materials, microforms, and other digitized information—that well serve the cause of theological education. We continue to develop the collection in support of our primary goal: preparing men for gospel ministry in the Reformed and Presbyterian churches.

Library Catalog

Access the library's online catalog.

Web Resources

Books

Journal Articles

ATLAS*: ATLAS is an online collection of major religion and theology journals selected by leading religion scholars and theologians. Users can read articles or research the history of a topic from as early as 1924 to the present. Currently, researchers are able to use ATLAS as a search tool to retrieve images of the pages in more than one-hundred different journals.

* This database is available only to currently enrolled students and seminary alumni. See the Associate Librarian for the password.

Religious and Theological Abstracts*: Summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology.

* This database is available only to currently-enrolled students. See the Associate Librarian for the password.

Christian Reformed Church Periodical Index (CRCPI): Over 100,000 bibliographic citations for the Banner and other CRC-related publications.

Bavinck Review: A peer-reviewed electronic journal published annually by the Bavinck Institute at Calvin Seminary.

Indiana Inspire (free registration required): Indiana’s Virtual Library, available to any state resident. For journal articles, select Academic Search Premier. The database indexes approximately 280 theology journals; a number of them have full-text coverage.

Theological Resources

Calvinism Resources Database: Articles, essays, lectures dealing with John Calvin and Calvinism. Maintained by the H. Henry Meeter Center.

The Post-Reformation Digital Library: A collection of resources relating to the development of theology during the Post-Reformation / Early Modern era (ca. 16th-18th c.). Maintained by the H. Henry Meeter Center.

Digital Library of Abraham Kuyper: A collaborative project of the Princeton Theological Seminary Library and the Free University’s Historical Documentation Center for Dutch Protestantism.

The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University: A comprehensive, fully-searchable, critical, annotated online edition of the papers of Jonathan Edwards, a corpus of some 100,000 pages of sermons, notebooks, letters, and treatises. It is integrated with Scripture citations, primary sources--referenced by Edwards--and relevant scholarly books and articles.

Princeton Theological Seminary’s Digital Collections: More than 150,000 digital pages of monographs and serials, in addition to portraits and photographs. Also see PTS Research Centers.

Perseus Digital Library: Online collection covering the history, literature, and culture of the Greco-Roman World. Includes both texts (original language and translations) and digital images.

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Entries from specialized philosophers around the internet.

Library hours

Closed on holidays observed by the Seminary

When classes are in session:
Mon-Thu: 8:00 am – 9:00pm
Fri: 8:00 am – 4:30pm
Sat: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Sun: Closed

Summer hours:
M-Th: 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
Fri: 8:00 am - noon
Weekends: Closed

Library staff

Bart Voskuil

Acting Theological Librarian

Library FAQs

Who may use the library?

I’m taking classes from an online seminary but I live within driving distance of Mid-America. May I use your library?

How can I renew my books?

How do I print and make copies? How much does it cost?

The library has a printer/photocopier available for student use. The general public may use the machine for making photocopies of library materials such as journal articles or reference book entries ($0.10 per page). For photocopying jobs that are unrelated to the Seminary’s theological collection, you are asked to make use of the copiers at the Lake County Public Library or a commercial copying source.

How is the Library organized?

The Library uses Library of Congress Classification. Use the following guide for browsing:

A: General Works
B: Philosophy and Religion
B-BJ: Philosophy
BL-BX: Religion
BR: Christianity
BS: Bible and Exegesis
BT: Doctrinal Theology
BV: Practical Theology
BX: Denominations and sects
C-F: History
H: Social Science
L: Education
M: Music
P: Philology and Literature
PA: Greek
PJ: Hebrew
R: Medicine
Z: Bibliography

What books may be checked out?

All books in the main collection (no call number prefix) may be checked out, in addition to audio-visual materials (call numbers starting with “AV”) and items from the Christian Education section (call numbers starting with “CRL”). Reference books, journals (bound or paper copies), indexes, and books from the Reformed Heritage Collection may not be checked out or removed from the library.

What happens if I lose a book?

Library Contact

Mid-America Reformed Seminary Library
229 Seminary Drive
Dyer, IN 46311
Phone: 219.864.2400 x414
Fax: 219.864.2409

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