Princeton Seminary Launches Free Digital Library

The Times of Trenton covered Princeton Theological Seminary’s launch of the Theological Commons, a digital library of more than 50,000 out-of-copyright titles on religion and theology — searchable, free of charge, and accessible from anywhere in the world.

“The seminary is trying to take a leadership role as all research libraries fall under the mandate of digitizing books,” said Clifford Anderson, curator of special collections at Princeton Seminary’s library. “We’re hoping we’re on the vanguard of this movement and will prompt other research libraries to increase the resources online.”

“We want to bring these books into a kind of common space that people can draw from and use for other projects,” Anderson added. “It is meant to encourage creativity and reuse. We hope people will do surprising and innovative things with material in ways we haven’t anticipated.” Read more …