Who qualifies for a Hamma Library card? – Important Guest Patron information

Trinity Lutheran Seminary Library (OPAL) catalog
OhioLINK catalog

Campus Use (can only be used on the TLS campus)
ATLASerials
ProQuest
EBSCO A-to-Z -- Hamma Library Periodicals Listing

Web Resources
Ohio Theological Library Association
Theological/Biblical Web Sites recommended by Trinity Faculty
Wabash Center

Titles Recently Cataloged

March - April 2009

January - February 2009

As of calendar year 2009, Hamma Library contains an estimated combined total of 141,000 books and bound periodicals. The library also subscribes to 435 periodicals and has 6,535 audio-visual resources and 3,290 microforms in its collection. It provides access to online reference services, the internet, and participates in interlibrary loan (ILL) with libraries around the world through WorldCat, an international cataloging database.

The library circulates approximately 12,000 items a year. In addition to serving the Trinity and Bexley Hall community, Hamma Library also provides resources to more than 200 local pastors and others from the wider community.

In January 2007 Hamma Library joined OPAL (Ohio Private Academic Libraries), a 24-member, resource-sharing consortium, and then, in July 2007 Hamma Library became an active member of OhioLINK, the statewide academic library network. Local students, faculty, and staff now have privileges of reciprocal borrowing with 88 Ohio institutions of higher education. Catalog access through the internet, plus courier delivery among the Ohio schools will stimulate collection use and greatly assist in meeting residential and remote teaching/learning needs.