Krauth Memorial Library on the Philadelphia campus will be closed on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, in observance of election day. Normal hours will resume on Wednesday, November 6, 2024.
If you know the name of the database you would like to use, click here to see an A-Z list of all available databases ULS subscribes to. Otherwise, look to the left for a list of key databases.
Listed on the left, you can find the tools we recommend for research in various subject areas. Eventually, each guide will have a short description of the kinds of information accessible to you, a few key starting points, and a list of all relevant databases and websites to your topic.
The ULS library provides joint library services to seminary students at Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary through the Eastern Cluster of Lutheran Seminaries. A wealth of resources are available to all our users; even without LTSS, the library is one of the largest independent seminary libraries in the United States, with over 380,000 volumes available to researchers and an additional 123,000 available at Southern. We are slowly growing our digital collections, with over 30,000 purchased ebooks for students, faculty, and staff and 57,000 open access and out of copyright ebooks available to the public in our Book Catalog . In addition, the library provides access to over 1,700 ejournals through ATLASerials Religion PLUS and JSTOR for current research and over 5,000 historic journals in electronic format(American Antiquarian Society Periodicals, 1684-1912 and Accessible Archives ).
Books published since 2017, sorted with newest additions first for the Gettysburg Branch can be found at this weblink:
Books published since 2017, sorted with newest additions first for the Philadelphia Branch can be found at this weblink:
The Collection Development Policy of the ULS Library can be downloaded at the link below:
The Writing Center provides research assistance, writing skills development, editorial assistance, and more. Contact us at library@uls.edu to schedule an appointment which we will schedule within five business days. Please include in your email the assignment or paper prompt. We will review up to ten pages of text per assignment. For more information, go to https://library.uls.edu/writing_center/home.
Mon. - Wed., Friday - 9:00 AM -4:00 PM
Thursday - 9:00AM - 6:30PM
Closed: Saturday and Sunday
Mon., Wed., Friday 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Tuesday, Thursday 10:00AM to 7:00PM
Closed Saturday and Sunday
Library Closed:
Sept. 2 - Labor Day
Nov. 27 - Nov. 29 - Thanksgiving Break
Dec. 23 to Jan. 1 - Christmas / New Year Break
Jan. 20 - Martin Luther King Day
April 17 at noon - April 21 - Easter Break
May 26 - Memorial Day
The United Lutheran Seminary Library contains two major archives: The ELCA Region 8 Archives and the ULS Seminary Archives.
Both of these archives are held in the A.R. Wentz Branch of the United Lutheran Seminary Library in Gettysburg, PA.
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Krauth Memorial Branch
7301 Germantown Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19119
215-248-6329
Wentz Memorial Branch
61 Seminary Ridge
Gettysburg, PA 17325
717-338-3014
library@uls.edu
The land on which United Lutheran Seminary sits, and which stretches between its two campuses, is tribal land, inhabited originally by the Lenni Lenape, the Susquehannock, and the Seneca tribes. We honor those original caretakers of this land, and we pay respect to the original inhabitants of what we now call Pennsylvania. Acknowledging this history is consistent with the seminary’s commitment to welcome and equity, which calls us in Christ to repentance, reconciliation, and wholeness. Even though the sad history of colonization cannot be undone, this land acknowledgement is one small way for us to remember what happened here, to understand our part in this story, and to develop a more healthy relationship with the land and its original inhabitants.
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