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List of Contributors

Ágnes Bálint

(1971) studied humanities, library sciences and bibliotherapy, is currently research fellow at the Theological and College Library of the Transtibiscan Reformed Church District in Debrecen, Hungary. As an editor and librarian, she has work experience in business, academia and ecclesiastical environments. Her research field is in pastoral theology, in the framework of the Doctoral School of the Debrecen Reformed Theological University. She was involved in the publication of István Kecskeméthy’s Bible translation (1935), a manuscript exemplifying some of the hardships ecclesiastical heritage had to undergo, and are evoked in her contribution to this volume.

ORCID: 0000-0001-6964-6430

Adriano Belfiore

has been working since 2004 in the BCE Service Centre as a technical referent for various projects coordinated by the National Office for Ecclesiastical Cultural Heritage and Religious Buildings of the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI).

ORCID: 0000-0001-9530-6405

Geneviève Bricoult

is director of the Theology Library and also a trainer in information research and community manager in the religious field at the UCLouvain. She is co-author of the book, Comment construire un dispositif de formation? Enseignants, formateurs, concepteurs eLearning (Brussels: De Boeck, 2011).

ORCID: 0000-0002-9787-4454

Luc Courtois

holds a PhD in history from the ‘Université catholique de Louvain’, Louvain-la-Neuve (1998). He is mainly interested in the history of contemporary Christianity at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Professor at UCLouvain since 1998, he is director, since 2006, of the Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie ecclesiastiques: Louvain Dictionary of Church History, and a member, since 2010, of the Editorial Board of Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique: Louvain Journal of Church History.

ORCID: 0000-0001-9304-8772

Matina Ćurić

is the secretary and Board member of the European Theological Library Association (BETH) and a librarian at the library of the Pontifical Mission Society in Aachen, Germany. She has fifteen years of experience working in specialised academic and ecclesiastical theological libraries in her homeland Croatia and in Germany. Matina holds a bachelor’s degree in theology and a master’s degree in library science.

ORCID: 0000-0002-5640-4624

Francesca D’Agnelli

has been involved since 2003 in the census, protection and enhancement projects of the heritage at the National Office for Ecclesiastical Cultural Heritage and Religious Buildings of the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI). She deals specifically with the projects regarding cultural assets as historical-artistic, archival, book and cultural institutes and their publication on the BeWeB – Online ecclesiastical heritage.

ORCID: 0000-0002-9884-6770

Ward De Pril

is faculty librarian at Maurits Sabbe Library (KU Leuven Libraries). He holds degrees in modern history and theology. Between 2005 and 2013, he was a research associate at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven. Since 2013 he has been working in the Maurits Sabbe Library, first as head of acquisition and from 2019 onwards as faculty librarian. His main interests include collection development related to theological research collections and valorisation of documentary religious heritage.

ORCID: 0000-0001-6632-4620

Donatus Düsterhaus

is a historian and scientific librarian. He obtained his doctoral degree (Dr. phil.) in History from the University of Tübingen in 2009 and earned an MBA in Knowledge Management and E-learning (2020) from the IKF in Luzern. After graduating from the ‘Bayerische Bibliotheksschule’ in Munich, he worked in various positions between 2009 and 2012 at the ‘Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg’ in France. Since 2013, he is head librarian of the ‘Bibliothèque interfacultaire d’histoire et de théologie’ at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). His most recent publications focus on the history of Alsace and the history of construction of libraries.

ORCID: 0000-0002-6492-2528

Odile Dupont

worked, after graduating as a chemical engineer, in various scientific libraries. She joined the ‘Institut catholique de Paris’ in 2001, and managed the five libraries of this institution, after which she was given a full-time position to promote the libraries and their networks (2011–13). She is now retired. She serves in ABCF (Association of Christian Libraries of France) since 2004, was the Chair of BETH between 2007 and 2012, opened a Special Interest Group (SIG) Religions: Libraries and Dialogue within IFLA in 2012.

Martin Faßnacht

studied Catholic Theology in Würzburg, Münster and Jerusalem. After his doctorate in New Testament studies, he worked from 2000 to 2007 at the Institute of contemporary and religious history of the New Testament at the Catholic Faculty of the University of Münster and from 2007 to 2011 at the Institute for textual research of the New Testament (INTF) at the Protestant Faculty of the University of Münster as a research assistant. From 2010 to 2012 he studied at the Humboldt University in Berlin for a correspondence Master’s degree in library and information science. Since 2011, he has been leading the department of Specialised Information Services (Fachinformationsdienste, FID) and the Index Theologicus at the University Library of Tübingen.

GND: 122054482; ORCID: 0000-0002-2672-4387

Penelope R. Hall

(M.Div., Ph.D., D.D.) has worked internationally in the field of theological education for over forty years, teaching, writing, editing texts for in-house publications, and editing for such publishers as T. & T. Clark, Orbis and the United Bible Societies. She was the secretary for BETH over a period of ten years and in addition, has served as a consultant to many theological libraries around the world.

Geert D. Harmanny

studied history and Semitic languages at the University of Groningen. He is head librarian and research coordinator of Theological University in Kampen. He is the chair the VThB and president of BETH. He is also the chair of the Dutch ‘Werkgroep Speciale Wetenschappelijke Bibliotheken’.

Oleksandra Hladysh

MA in Theology and Ukrainian Philology, is librarian at the Library of the Ukrainian Catholic University. Her research interests are: theology of the family, modern Ukrainian literature.

Hagen Jäger

was ordained as a full pastor in 1989 and subsequently worked as a Protestant pastor in in Thuringia. In addition to his duties, he continued writing on his thesis and was awarded a doctorate in theology in 1993. From the year 2000 onwards, he was the scientific director of the Lutherhaus Museum in Eisenach. Eventually he transferred to the church archive and continued his work from there. Recently, he moved into retirement.

Anna James

is a librarian (UCL 2007) and archivist (Dundee 2019) working with religious collections. She has been the archivist at the Generalate of the Medical Mission Sisters since 2020, having previously worked at Lambeth Palace Library, Pusey House, and Regent’s Park College (Oxford). She has been on the committee of ABTAPL since 2018, and was on the committee of Cilip’s Library and Information History Group 2013–2016. She is currently working on a PhD on the history of Anglican Theological College Libraries.

ORCID: 0000-0001-5864-8449

Bart Janssens

(PhD 2000) studied Classical Languages and Byzantine Studies at the Universities of Antwerp, Leuven and Thessaloniki. He obtained a PhD in Classics from KU Leuven, with a dissertation on the Greek Church Father Maximus the Confessor (7th century). He is associated with the ‘Institute for Early Christian and Byzantine Studies’ at the Faculty of Arts of the KU Leuven. Since 2004 he has been a publishing manager at Brepols Publishers in Turnhout, Belgium, where he is responsible for the Latin and Greek editions of Corpus Christianorum.

ORCID: 0000-0002-2328-4304

Leo Kenis

(1953) is Emeritus Professor of church history and the history of theology at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven. From 2000 to 2018 he was academic librarian of the Maurits Sabbe Library (KU Leuven). His research focuses on the history of Catholicism and Catholic theology in the 19th and 20th centuries. Among his recent publications, he edited, with Wim François and Lieve Watteeuw, Manuscripts & Precious Books in the Maurits Sabbe Library, KU Leuven (2019) and, with Marc Lindeijer, The Survival of the Jesuits in the Low Countries, 1773–1850 (2019).

ORCID: 0000-0002-7819-2386

Mathijs Lamberigts

Dr. Theol., STD (1988), MA Classical Philology (1982), is Emeritus Professor of History of Church and Theology at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven. He is a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium. In the past he served as editor-in-chief of Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique and treasurer of Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses. He is a member of the Editorial Board of a number of journals, such as Augustiniana, Melita Theologica, Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales, and Sacris Erudiri. In his research he is focusing on Augustine and the second Pelagian Controversy, Augustinism in the 16th and 17th centuries, and the history of Vatican II.

ORCID: 0000-0002-4482-4488

Otto S. Lankhorst

(1953) is historian and bibliographer. He studied in Nijmegen, Amsterdam and Strasbourg. He obtained his doctorate in 1983 at the Catholic University of Nijmegen on the life and work of Reinier Leers (1654–1714), international publisher and bookseller in Rotterdam. For many years he worked at the Catholic Documentation Centre and the University Library at Nijmegen. He compiled here volumes 1 and 2 of the Bibliography of Catholic Dutch Periodicals (BKNP). From 2004 until his retirement in 2019 he was librarian and curator in the Heritage Centre for the Religious Life in the Netherlands, situated in Sint Agatha near Cuijk.

ORCID: 0000-0002-8373-7643

Johan Leemans

(STD 2001) is Professor of Christianity in Late Antiquity at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven. He is editor-in-chief of Sacris Erudiri and serves on the Editorial Boards of Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses, Adamantius, and Vigiliae Christianae. His main research themes include sermons, biblical exegesis, martyrdom, and trinitarian theology in the 4th century, with a special interest for Athanasius of Alexandria, the Cappadocian Fathers, and some lesser-known authors such as Isidorus of Pelusium and Asterius of Amaseia.

ORCID: 0000-0003-1378-7028

Ruth MacLean

is librarian of the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide (formerly the Henry Martyn Library). She gained a BA(Ed) Hons degree from Durham University (1995) and PGCert ILS (Information and Library Studies) from Aberystwyth University (2021). Her library career has centred on academic libraries, from medical education, to archaeology and anthropology, to social and political sciences. Born to missionary parents, she was delighted to become a librarian of World Christianity and achieve her dream of working with theological materials. She is married to Dr. Donald John MacLean, and they have two children, Hannah and Jonathan.

Stefano Malaspina

is librarian and archivist at the library of the Metropolitan Chapter of Milan. He carried out theological studies at the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy and obtained a Diploma in Archivistics, Palaeography and Diplomatics at the State Archives of Milan. He is member of the ‘Associazione dei Bibliotecari Ecclesiastici Italiani’ (ABEI), of which he was secretary from 2013 to 2018; he is currently a member of the BETH Board (2021–2026). He cooperated with Msgr. Inos Biffi in editing various works, including liturgical ones. He translated into Italian the Vita Coetanea of Ramon Llull and John Henry Newman’s Historical Sketches.

ORCID: 0000-0001-8263-8670

Ivanna Papa

PhD in History, is senior lecturer at the Department of History, Humanities Faculty (part-time) and librarian at the Library of the Ukrainian Catholic University. Her research interests are: history of the Great Duchy of Lithuania, genealogy of the dux family in the late medieval and modern times, history of the castle in Pidhirtsi.

ORCID: 0000-0002-6626-4450

Valerio Pennasso

is a priest of the Diocese of Alba (Italy). From 2015 to 2021 he was director of the National Office for ecclesiastical cultural heritage and the building of worship (BCE) of the General Secretariat of the Italian Bishop Conference (CEI).

ORCID: 0000-0001-8754-2037

R.-F. Poswick

a Benedictine monk from the Abbey of Maredsous in Belgium, is a theologian (Biblical scholar) and computer scientist. He was responsible for the ‘Centre Informatique & Bible’, which developed its pioneering work applied to the Bible (and texts in general) from 1968 to 2018 (see Wikipedia: Réginald-Ferdinand Poswick).

Hannie Riley

has over twenty years of library experience and has been working for the University of Oxford since 2006, starting in the Philosophy and Theology Faculties Library, then the Bodleian Oriental Section, the China Centre Library, Saïd Business School’s Sainsbury Library, and finally at Wycliffe Hall. She is currently the chair of ABTAPL, a board member of BETH, and the theology rep for the Committee of College Librarians at the University of Oxford. She holds an MSc in Library Science from City, University of London (2016), an MA in Education (1995) and a BA in Psychology from Kyungnam University (1993), South Korea.

Johannes Röder

MA, works as an archivist in the Archives of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany in the city of Eisenach. Previously he studied history in Frankfurt am Main and worked at the State Archives in Wiesbaden for the Commission for the History of the Jews in Hesse. Currently he is completing a second degree in archival science at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam and is a member of the Society for Thuringian Church History.

ORCID: 0000-0003-2927-6484

Marek A. Rostkowski

(1967), Catholic priest, studied in Poznan, Warsaw and Rome. He obtained his doctorate in Missiology (2007) from the Pontifical Gregorian University. He perfected his studies in library science at the school at the Vatican Library (1997–98). From 2000 to 2016 he was head librarian of the Pontifical Missionary Library and the Library of the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Vatican City. In this period he served as editor-in-chief of Bibliographia Missionaria. He gave lectures on the theology of missions, the history of missions and the theology of the laity in Poland, Italy, Colombia, and currently in Ukraine, where he works as a missionary. He was vice-president of BETH from 2012 to 2016.

ORCID: 0000-0002-2118-5708

Kristien Suenens

studied history at KU Leuven and holds a PhD in history. Since 2009 she is consultant for the heritage of religious institutes and a member of the research staff at KADOC-KU Leuven. Her research and publications focus on the history of religious institutes, particularly, the relationship between religion, gender and modern society. She is coordinator of the RELINS and CCSCE research networks, focusing on the history of 19th- and 20th-century religious institutes and interdisciplinary research on Christian churches, culture and society in contemporary Europe, and she is a member of the editorial team of the journal Trajecta: Religion, Culture and Society in the Low Countries.

ORCID: 0000-0001-7623-8945

Silvia Tichetti

has been working, since 2008, in the BCE Service Centre as a content referent for the SBN Hub of Ecclesiastical Libraries (PBE) coordinated by the National Office for Ecclesiastical Cultural Heritage and Religious Buildings of the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI).

ORCID: 0000-0002-3030-9389

Yannick Van Loon

(1987) is collections expert documentary heritage and jesuitica at the Maurits Sabbe Library (KU Leuven, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies). Since 2012 he coordinates the Jesuitica Project at KU Leuven. He is a member of several gremia dealing the library’s role in heritage, digitisation and resource management (HERKUL, Erfgoedlabo…). He holds a Master’s degree in History (KU Leuven) and in Archival Sciences and Contemporary Document Management (VUB).

ORCID: 0000-0002-7064-6080

Oliver Weinreich

born 1970, studied Catholic theology and law 1989–1995 in Frankfurt am Main, Kiel, and Freiburg i.Br., Germany. In 1998 he obtained a doctorate in Moral Theology in Freiburg i.Br. He had a library traineeship 2001–2003 at the Bavarian State Library and is, since 2003, subject specialist for Theology and head of the Sub-Library of Theology of the University Library in Würzburg.

ORCID: 0000-0002-9053-6890

Katrien Weyns

studied history at KU Leuven and deepened her knowledge of heritage management during a master in Archival science. As consultant for digital heritage at KADOC-KU Leuven she advices religious institutes and others to preserve their digital legacy. Since 2019 she is head of the heritage library and manages the acquisition, preservation and disclosure of books and serials that were used by, published by, or about religious inspired persons and organisations. Urged by recent tendencies towards online publishing, she develops best practices to add new media, esp. social media, to the heritage collection.

Jerzy Witczak

(1954) graduated at the Wrocław University of Technology and the Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Wrocław. He defended his doctorate at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Lublin. He has been for many years a lecturer and a director of the Library of the Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Wrocław. Since 2001, he has been the president of the Board of the Federation of Church Libraries ‘Fides’.

ORCID: 0000-0002-1874-3916

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Theological Libraries and Library Associations in Europe

A Festschrift on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of BETH

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