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.
- https://www.quakerinfo.org/resources/books
- https://www.quaker.org/book-list.html
- https://www.fgcquaker.org/resources/quaker-meetings-power-tools-online-tools-0
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.
- Friends General Conference Bookstore https://www.quakerbooks.org/
- Pendle Hill Bookstore https://www.pendlehill.org/bookstore
- Friends United Press https://bookstore.friendsunitedmeeting.org/
- Barclay Press https://www.barclaypress.com
- Vintage Quaker Books https://www.vintagequakerbooks.com/
Other Quaker meeting libraries include the following.
- Friends Meeting of Washington, DC
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Library
- https://earlyquakerarchive.wordpress.com/the-meetinghouse-library-you-might-not-have-known-about/
- Friends House Library : https://www.quaker.org.uk/resources/library
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 |
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| Faith & Practice of New England Yearly Meeting |
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| Faith & Practice course and study guide |
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| “Quakerism 201: This is Our Testimony to the World” course and readings |
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| “Quakerism 301: Gospel Order: Strengthening God’s Leadership of the Faith Community” course and readings |
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| Quaker faith & practice of Britain Yearly Meeting “Advices & Queries” of Britain Yearly Meeting |
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| 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’) |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Street Corner Society | http://www.strecorsoc.org/ |
| Tract Association of Friends | https://tractassociation.org/ |
