Library

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Since the Library is a department of the Biblical Institute, it operates and follows the Institute’s mission and vision:

Our users

Due to the specificity of the Library and the Croatian culture and society, the Library strives to create a picture of openness and safety for its users.  Around 37% of our patrons are undergraduate students of theology, 35% are graduate students of theology, 21% public users and 7% are professors. Out of the total number, 56% are male and 44% female users.

Because of our high-quality resources, our users’ profiles are from several theological schools from Croatia, as well as Slovenia, Bosnia, Serbia and Albania.

Library Collections

Our Library collection is divided into: General Collection, Reference Collection, Periodical Collection, Bible Collection, Thesis and Dissertation Collection and the Private Collections of three important protestant Bible translators in modern-day Croatia.

General Collection

Our General Collection counts more than 12,000 books in the field of religion, philosophy, psychology, languages and history. Out of the total number of copies, 83% is the General Collection. One part of this is from several important donations such as Cascade College (around 60%), Langham Literature, Joseph Shulam, Everet Ferguson, Thomas Sibley, Mladen Jovanović, Nela Horak Williams, Branko Lovrec and Branko Đaković. Other parts of the General Collection are shaped through buying. Our main priority when purchasing new books is to listen to the needs of our students and professors, and secondly to follow research of new relevant literature in the field of biblical studies, theology, church history, doctrines, mission etc.

Reference and Periodical Collection

The Reference and Periodical Collection can be found in the Reference room. It contains important dictionaries, encyclopedias, commentary collections and important theological works.

Physical periodicals are mostly in Croatian because we provide our users access to the leading database of theological scientific journals through ATLA RDB, and in the last 2 years, we have expanded to the database ATLA PLUS Serials. The Biblical Institute is the only library in Croatia and beyond that provides this access through ATLA RDB. This has given us the opportunity to reach students, professors and researchers from different religious backgrounds, countries and theological schools.

Bible Collection

Even though our Bible Collection is small, we are the only theological and church library that has created a collection, together with bibles from the Center for Biblical Research (CBI).