Welcome to William Smith Morton Library in Richmond!
The Richmond Campus Library is a four-story library of 320,000-plus volumes that serves commuter and virtual seminary students, faculty, and staff, local clergy Christian educators, the Presbytery of the James, and churches in the Richmond area. The Library serves as a gathering place for both the Richmond campus's resident and non-resident students, providing comfortable seating areas for taking breaks, group study rooms, private study carrels, and a patron lounge. Morton Library hosts UPSem's institutional repository, physical Archives and Special Collections, and the Smithy (Makerspace). It also provides space for small-, medium-, and large-sized classes and community groups to meet in person or virtually.
Library Administration and Department Heads
Robin McCall
Seminary Librarian
Caroline Carneal
Interim Head of Technical Services
Dora Rowe
Instructional and Media Services Director
Mengistu Lemma
Reference and Interlibrary Loan Librarian
Ryan Douthat
Public and Electronic Services Director
Seminary Archivist
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What Makes Us Unique?
William Smith Morton Library, on our Richmond campus, was designed by Richmond architects Glavé & Holmes. Completed in 1996, the Library added a new wing and three-story atrium to the former Schauffler Hall. Morton Library’s collections include approximately 324,000 printed items and 137,000 cataloged items in other formats. Its special collections include more than 4,800 rare titles dating from 1470 through 1830. The personal papers of faculty members, ministers and missionaries of the Presbyterian Church (US) form the core of the 1,200 linear feet of the archival manuscript collection.
Morton Library offers an Instructional and Media Services (IMS) department with a collection of approximately 29,000 audiovisual items in physical formats including audio and video recordings, slides, kits, games, posters, and current curriculum resources. The IMS also offers rare special collections of the recordings of Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr. The IMS offers students, faculty, and staff a Makerspace to develop work in multiple media, as well as provide a place to enhance focus through purposeful play. Local church leaders may also receive training by making an appointment with the IMS Director.
Morton Library offers an Instructional and Media Services (IMS) department with a collection of approximately 29,000 audiovisual items in physical formats including audio and video recordings, slides, kits, games, posters, and current curriculum resources. The IMS also offers rare special collections of the recordings of Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr. The IMS offers students, faculty, and staff a Makerspace to develop work in multiple media, as well as provide a place to enhance focus through purposeful play. Local church leaders may also receive training by making an appointment with the IMS Director.
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