SMBC Kerr Library
Our Library Team is available to support you in every step of your study journey.
SMBC has been collecting a theological library since the founding of the college in 1916. The SMBC Kerr Library building was built in 1998, named after SMBC Principal J.T.H. Kerr who served from 1945 to 1964.
The library connects students and teaching staff with essential resources for learning, teaching and research at SMBC.
The library has facilities centrally located on both campuses. They provide books, Ebooks and digital resources on campus, with over 90 student study spaces designed for focussed, quiet learning.
Resources
The library houses one of the strongest missions collections in Australia, along with comprehensive biblical studies, theology, pastoral ministry and church history sections.
You can browse over 42,000 books on our library shelves and over 1,200 ebooks available 24/7 from anywhere. There are 90 student desks available for quiet study.
Every year the collection has grown with the addition of more than 1,000 new titles and a growing number of electronic resources.
Over 42,000 physical books
A ever growing collection of 42,000 volumes of books on our shelves covering:
- Biblical studies
- Theology
- Missions
- Pastoral Theology
- Church history
- Biblical Languages
Over 1,200 ebooks
An extensive curated EBook library of over 1,200 titles collected from:
- Ebook Central
- EBSCO Ebooks
- Cambridge Companions Online
- Oxford Handbooks Online
Theological research databases
- ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
- Religion and Philosophy Collection
- ProQuest Religion Database
Multi-disciplinary reference tools
- Oxford Reference Online
- JSTOR
Staff and Services
To ensure new technologies bring benefits to our learning community, the experienced library staff are there to assist you in becoming competent users and researchers.
You can access help from the library staff in whichever mode suits you, such as:
- From the staff at the library front desk
- By telephone
Croydon Campus Library: +61 2 9747 4780 ext 120
Roberts-Dale Campus Library: +61 2 9799 3824 ext 4 - Through email
- By small group and one-to-one tutorials, as well as
- Through reference guides and self-instruction media presentations on the student moodle, and
- Information on the Kerr Library Website