A major component in the Seminary's educational program is the 200,000-volume Krauth Memorial Library, home of one of the finest scholarly collections of any Lutheran institution in America. Archives of five of the Seminary's supporting synods are housed on the library's shelves. A professional staff is available for assistance and consultation. During the academic year, the library is open weekdays and evenings as well as weekends.
Summer hours are weekdays only.
The system provides access to ownership and cataloging data for some 43million titles held by some 36,000 participating institutions worldwide, including the Library of Congress. The OPAC can be accessed in the library and as the fiber-optic campus backbone becomes functional we plan to have the catalog searchable from faculty computers, and eventually from new seminary student housing and apartments, now under construction. Eventual plans call for the catalog to be searchable through the Internet. A major collection of printed Bonhoeffer materials is being assembled at the Bonhoeffer Center, with its office and conference room on the bottom floor of the Krauth Memorial Library. Dr. Wayne Whitson Floyd , Center director and general editor for the Project, offers a Bonhoeffer Seminar each year in the Seminary curriculum.