About the Donald Robinson Library

The Donald Robinson Library is an integral part of Moore Theological College. Its story began with the opening of the College in Sydney in 1856.

Today the library is one of the largest and most comprehensive theological libraries in the Southern Hemisphere. Its growing collections and services support the work of our theological students and teaching faculty, as well as visiting scholars, researchers and other students throughout Australia and around the world.

The Library is named in honour of Donald William Bradley Robinson (1922-2018), former Vice Principal of the College (1959-1972), Bishop of Parramatta (1973-1982), and Archbishop of Sydney (1982-1993).

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105,000 print volumes are located on open access in the Library at Newtown while the remaining volumes are stored at an offsite location. The Samuel Marsden Archives forms part of the Library and collects material relating to Anglicanism and evangelicalism in Australia.

In addition, the Library has two coveted rare books collections. The Bishop Broughton Memorial Library (Rare Books collection) contains nearly 8,000 print items on religion which were published from the fifteenth century.

The Margaretta Mary Woodriff Memorial Library (Australiana and Australiana Rare collections) consists of some 23,000 print titles, of which some are rare or pre-1900 Australian imprints.

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