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The library resources available to students of the Divinity College far surpass those at most other seminaries in North America
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McMaster Divinity College shares the library facilities of McMaster University, and faculty and students have borrowing and user privileges. The McMaster University Library System consists of Mills Memorial Library, the Innis Room in Kenneth Taylor Hall, the H.G. Thode Library of Science and Engineering, the Lloyd Reeds Map Library/Urban Documentation Centre, and the Health Sciences Library. The entire library collection contains more than 1,732,328 volumes, 1,485,305 microform items, 163,526 non-print items and 11,093 linear feet of archival material. Current periodical titles number about 13,047. The library maintains research quality collections in all of the major areas of theological study.
Seminary students will primarily be interested in the Mills Memorial Library, where books in theology and related disciplines are housed. Mills Library has several collections (Reference, Periodicals, Government Documents and Music) which contain materials of significance for both undergraduates and graduate students such as McMaster Divinity College students; and Reserve, which is used mainly by undergraduates.
The William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections in Mills Library contains rare books, manuscripts and special book and archival collections, which afford many opportunities for original research. Of outstanding interest are the Bertrand Russell Archives, a massive collection of correspondence and manuscripts supported by books, journal articles, secondary literature, tapes, films and personal memorabilia. The Eighteenth-Century Collection of British material numbers over 30,000 volumes and is the major Canadian collection in the field. Among more modern materials are the papers of Vera Brittain, Marian Engel, Robert Fulford, Pierre Berton, Farley Mowat, Peter Newman, Matt Cohen and many others.
