Over 41 million records of many types of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries around the world. A combined listing of over 30 million books, serials, archives, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, photographs, posters, and computer files, including most materials held by major research and academic libraries in North America. If you locate items in WorldCat or RLIN that are not held by Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr or Haverford, you can obtain them through Interlibrary Loan . Please allow 1-2 weeks for material to arrive. Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks can be extremely useful in locating background information and generating ideas for further exploration.
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1964 to the present. The American Theological Association's ATLA Religion Database covers such topics as Biblical studies, world religions, Church history and religious perspectives on social issues. The ATLA Religion Database contains over one million bibliographic records covering the research literature of religion in 26 languages. It includes article citations from 650 journals, essay citations from 14,000 multi-author works, and book review citations. 1949 to the present.