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Library Collection Development

Recent History
During the past twenty years Loome Theological Booksellers has created entire libraries for new institutions throughout the world. These have included:

1. Ave Maria University (Ave Maria, Florida): graduate and undergraduate collection in all subject areas (history, literature, mathematics and science, philosophy, theology, etc). Significant rare and antiquarian collections.
2. Seat of Wisdom Theological Seminary (Owerri, Nigeria), major seminary of the Archdiocese of Owerri and its seven suffragan dioceses: basic collection in all areas of undergraduate and graduate seminary studies.
3. The University of Asia and the Pacific (Manila, Philippines): theology, philosophy, ancient and mediaeval history, etc.
4. International Theological Institute (Gaming, Austria), under the presidency of Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, Archbishop of Vienna: core collection for doctoral studies, including Thomistic studies, patrology, mediaeval studies, etc.
5. The Catholic University of Eastern Africa (Nairobi, Kenya): basic collection of both monographs and periodicals for the university's three constituent schools: Philosophy, Social Sciences (psychology, sociology, anthropology, etc), and Theology (including canon law, biblical studies, ecclesiastical history, etc).

1. Campion College (Sydney, Australia)
2. Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia (Nashville, TN)
3. Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculata (Città di Castello, Italy)
4. The Archdiocesan Seminary Library (Archdiocese of Sydney, Australia)
5. The Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (Rome)
6. St. John's Seminary (Archdiocese of Boston)
7. Mt. Angel Abbey (Benedictine: Oregon)
8. Mepkin Abbey (Trappist: Moncks Corner, SC)
9. Florida International University (Miami, FL)
10. Abilene Christian University (Abilene, TX)
11. Asbury Theological Seminary (Wilmore, KY)
12. Christian Theological Seminary (Indianapolis, IN)
13. University of Dallas
14. The Pontifical North American College (Rome)
15. The Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico (Ponce)
16. Franciscan Provincial House of Studies (Bogota, Colombia)
17. Pitts Library of Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
18. Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena, CA)

1. Archbishop John C. Nienstedt (Archbishop of St. Paul & Minneapolis)
2. Archbishop Harry J. Flynn (Archbishop emeritus of St. Paul & Minneapolis)
3. Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron (Archbishop of Detroit)
4. Archbishop Raymond L. Burke (Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura)
5. Archbishop Thomas Collins (Archbishop of Toronto)
6. Bishop James M. Wingle (Bishop of St. Catharines, Ontario)
7. † Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ (Fordham University)
8. Adele Chwalek (retired Director of Libraries, Catholic University of America)
9. Paul Birkel (Dean of the Library emeritus, University of San Francisco)
10. Lorenzo Zeugner (retired Director of Acquisitions, Hesburgh Library, University of Notre Dame)
11. Michael Novak (American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.)
12. Robin Darling Young (Professor of Early Christian Thought, University of Notre Dame)
13. Father Ian Ker (Oxford University, editor of the critical edition of the works of Ven. John Henry Newman)
14. Father J. Augustine DiNoia, OP (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Vatican)
15. Ralph McInerney (Professor of Philosophy emeritus, University of Notre Dame)
16. Paul Vitz (Professor of Psychology, New York University)
17. Robert L. Wilken (Professor of the History of Christianity, University of Virginia)
18. Bernard McGinn (Professor of Historical Theology emeritus, University of Chicago)
19. Karl Morrison (Professor of History, Rutgers University)
20. Bernard Dobranski (Dean and President, Ave Maria School of Law)