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A Christian library or theological library is a kind of library that has its origins in the Jewish religion whose practice and transmission depended on the keeping and duplication of sacred texts. Like Judaism, Christianity depends fundamentally on the preservation and study of a sacred text .
Worship services of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) include weekly services held in meetinghouses on Sundays (or another day when local custom or law prohibits Sunday worship) in geographically based religious units (called wards or branches). Once per month, this weekly service is a fast and testimony meeting.
The Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL), also known as the ChoralWiki, is an online database for choral and vocal music. Its contents primarily include sheet music in the public domain or otherwise freely available for printing and performing (such as via permission from the copyright holder).
Collection development involves activities that need a librarian or information professional who is specialized in improving the library's collection. The process includes the selection of information materials that respond to the users or patrons need as well as de-selection of unwanted information materials, called weeding .
The construction of the library and church was entrusted to F. C. Swartz, of Villa Grove, Illinois, for $60,000. The building itself was designed by Mr. A. L. Pillsbury of Bloomington, Illinois. Originally planned to be two separate buildings, it was decided to join them making one wing for the church and another for the library.
Christ Church Library contains one of the largest collections of early printed books in Oxford outside the Bodleian Library.The library was described in 1946 as 'a heterogeneous collection of about 100,000 works' [1] and this is the figure which has generally been quoted since.
The site was then a Temple Square parking lot, and was the same site as in the 1960 plan, northeast of the intersection of Main and North Temple. [1] The new facility houses the Church History Department (the modern name of the Church Historian's Office) and the church's historical archives. [2] The building was dedicated on June 20, 2009.
It incorporated the Mission Record of the Church of Scotland from 1900, and at the 1929 union of the Church, it merged with United Free Church's The Record as Life and Work: The Record of the Church of Scotland. Life and Work was an initiative of the Church's Committee of Christian Life and Work, which was led by Charteris, a professor of ...