Library

 

Our library is mostly on shelves on the east wall of the Fellowship Room in the meetinghouse.  The books for children are in one of the nearby small meeting rooms.  A draft library policy is available on the Library Policy page of this website.  There is much useful information on libraries and record-keeping at https://www.quaker.org.uk/our-organisation/quaker-roles/records-custodians-librarians.

A catalog of our books, pamphlets, and other items is on LibraryThing.com.  You can find it at https://www.LibraryThing.com/catalog/ConcordQuakers.  You may wish to click on the column labeled ‘Dewey/Melvil’, which will sort the list by Dewey Decimal Number; this may be more convenient for browsing by subject.  Alternately, you may wish to search by ‘tag’, such as “17th century” or “education”.  Feel free to have a play; you can’t break anything. 

There are several lists of recommended books, many of which we have in our library.

New England Yearly Meeting has put a catalog of its religious education lending library on LibraryThing.com.  You can find the catalog at https://www.LibraryThing.com/catalog/NEYM_RE_Library.

While we have many Pendle Hill Pamphlets, you may wish to browse the pamphlets from their web site at https://www.pendlehill.org/product-category/pamphlets/.

The New England Friend is the newsletter of New England Yearly Meeting of Friends is available via https://neym.org/beliefs/monthly-newsletters.  Although archived issues of Quaker Life, the magazine of Friends United Meeting (FUM), are no longer available on line, you can find news about FUM at https://www.friendsunitedmeeting.org/.  Archived issues of Friends Journal are available at https://www.friendsjournal.org/issue-archive/ to current subscribers.  Britain Yearly Meeting publishes Quaker News, which is available at https://www.Quaker.org.uk/Quaker-News, and various newsletters are at https://www.Quaker.org.uk/Newsletters.  Although The Friend, an independent British Quaker weekly magazine, does not have free access to archived issues, it’s worth browsing their website at https://TheFriend.org/.

There are a number of Quaker bookshops, including the following.

Other Quaker meeting libraries include the following.

Not far from Friends House in London is the British Library https://www.bl.uk/.

You can find documents from World Conference of Friends 2012 “Being Salt and Light - Friends living the Kingdom of God in a broken world” at http://www.saltandlight2012.org/FollowTheConference.  The most recent World Plenary Meeting (formerly the Triennial/International Representatives Meeting) was held in Peru from 19 to 27 January 2016, at the Royal Inca Hotel in Pisac, near Cusco.

Source Web Links
Other Sources of Quaker writings
Faith & Practice of New England Yearly Meeting
Faith & Practice course and study guide
Quakerism 201: This is Our Testimony to the World course and readings
Quakerism 301: Gospel Order: Strengthening God’s Leadership of the Faith Community course and readings
Quaker faith & practice of Britain Yearly Meeting

“Advices & Queries” of Britain Yearly Meeting
Faith & Practice (links to ‘books of discipline’ of other yearly meetings via QuakerInfo.com)

[‘Discipline’ is used in the sense of ‘disciple’.]
http://www.QuakerInfo.com/fandp.shtml
Faith & Practice (links to ‘books of discipline’ of other yearly meetings via QuakerInfo.org) http://QuakerInfo.org/quakerism/fandplinks.html
Scripture [Bible] study (links to on-line & downloadable ‘Bibles’)
Bible Half Hours at NEYM 2017 Bible Half Hours by Marty Grundy.
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21). Volume VIII. The Age of Dryden. §IV. The Early Quakers. by Edward Grubb http://www.bartleby.com/218/0401.html
Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL)
Digital Book Index http://www.digitalbookindex.com/_search/search010religionquakersa.asp
Digital Quaker Collection http://dqc.esr.earlham.edu
Friends World Committee for Consultation, Section of the Americas https://fwccamericas.org/pamphlet-catalog/search.aspx
Leonard S. Kenworthy’s publications https://leonardkenworthy.net/
New Foundation Fellowship
newquaker.com notebook http://www.newquaker.com/2010_02_14_blogarchive.htm
Online Books Page  — Society of Friends http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/browse?type=lcsubc&key=Society%20of%20Friends
Project Gutenberg
Quaker Electronic Archive http://www.qis.net/~daruma/
Quaker Heritage Press
Quaker Institute for the Future

QIF Focus Books

Research Papers and Articles

Public Talks

Quaker Pamphlets http://pamphlets.quaker.org/index.html
Quaker Quicks book series
Street Corner Society http://www.strecorsoc.org/
Tract Association of Friends https://tractassociation.org/