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Rare Book Collections
The following site is designed to give the reader an introductory look at the importance of Rare Book study through various resources on the subject via electronic, digital and traditional means of scholarship.
Rare Book Collections
- Welcome to the Seton Hall University Libraries Rare Book research guide. Since the eras, events, individuals and facets of historical development within the course of society building are many and varied, this is not a comprehensive list of resources, but rather a starting point on your personal path to discovery.
- New Additions to our Rare Book Collections - Blog EntriesThe following site entitled "News" provides recent and archived feature stories about incoming and highlighted Rare Book collections.
Rare Book Inventory Lists
- Overall List of Rare Books in Seton Hall University CatalogList of holdings in our Rare Book Collection as of 9/1/2017. Updates continue to be made as further volumes are acquired over time.
- Seton Hall Archival Rare Book Collections - By The NumberList of holdings in our Rare Book Collection (By Title and Tally) as of 5/3/2020. Updates continue to be made as further volumes are acquired over time.
Rare Book Listings (Global)
- Hathi TrustFounded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection. HathiTrust members steward the collection — the largest set of digitized books managed by academic and research libraries — under the aims of scholarly, not corporate, interests.