Current Students - GlanceyLibrary
Maryvale's library facilities are available to all students attending course residentials
Maryvale's library facilities are available to all students attending course residentials
Built in 1928 with a bequest from auxiliary bishop of Birmingham, Bishop Michael Glancey (1854-1925), the purpose of this library is to support the intellectual formation of our seminarians and candidates for the Permanent Diaconate.
Along with the library stacks and the Spiritual Reading Library, we offer access to over 40,000 catalogued physical items, as well as online access to a range of academic journals and eBooks.
You can access the catalogue of this library through our online portal.
The catalogue contains many different mediums, from journals and books to VCRs and CDs. The catalogue largely covers the Church, general history, theology and philosophy.
The Library Special Collection contains some 12,000 early printed books and pamphlets, and a small number of manuscripts, from the 15th to 19th centuries.
English Catholic recusant items were listed in A. F Allison & D. M. Rogers' Contemporary Printed Literature of the English Counter-Reformation 1558-1640 (Volumes I & II, 1989). Pre-1700 titles are currently being included in the Universal Short Title Catalogue (University of St Andrews).
In the 1960s, a detailed printed catalogue was produced which forms the basis of the present online catalogue, currently being updated, and is searchable online.
To access the Special Collection catalogue only, without entering the main library catalogue, click on ‘Enter Library’ as directed. Type the word ‘Special’ in the box marked Reader Code (top right) and click on log in. In a few seconds, the background colour will change to green, indicating that you are in the Special collection catalogue.
While students are able to access the Library during study residentials, our resources can be accessed outside of these times. Contact Sean Carron for more information: