Direct lending to remote users (or, Extension Service) is only available to two categories of users:
- Seminary students who are in Distance Learning Programs, on a non-local Vicarage or Internship, or otherwise legitimately outside the St. Louis region during their program of study;
- Rostered LCMS church workers who live outside the St. Louis bi-state region (i.e., outside the 620xx, 622xx, 630xx, 631xx, and 633xx ZIP codes).
All other users should pursue interlibrary borrowing through their local library to request our materials from a distance.
Only books can be borrowed via direct distant lending. The due date is extended from the normal 4 weeks to a longer period of 6 weeks to allow for transit in both directions. Note that we do not normally lend materials internationally.
Requests may be made via e-mail or by calling our Extension Services Desk at 314.505.7031.
There is no cost for this service except the cost for the borrower to return the materials to Concordia Seminary Library. We require that items be returned via UPS (preferred) or Priority Mail for tracking purposes.
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Seminary Book Exchange
The Concordia Seminary Book Exchange program provides books at no cost for overseas seminaries and other overseas theological institutions with which we have established a relationship.
Books available in this program come from donations to Concordia Seminary Library, or occasionally from items in our own collection. When an item does not fit into the scope of our own collection, or if it is a duplicate item, we will make it available at no cost through the Book Exchange if it is deemed of potential value to other religious or missional institutions.
Shipping costs are covered by Concordia Gospel Outreach, which has been gracious enough to package and mail all materials for us.
The list of available titles is available below in two forms: sorted by author, and sorted by date received, with newest entries first. Both lists are downloadable Portable Document Format (.pdf) files, requiring Adobe Acrobat Reader (which can be downloaded free here).
List sorted by Author: SemExchange 20080328A.pdf
List sorted by Date: SemExchange 20080328D.pdf
If you are an authorized participating institution, please e-mail us with the titles/authors of items which you would like to obtain.
NOTE: If your internet connection cannot adequately handle viewing or downloading these lists due to their size, we will gladly send you a paper copy upon request.
Questions about the Seminary Book Exchange program should be directed to the Public Services Librarian.
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Interlibrary Loans
Concordia Seminary Library participates regularly with other libraries across the country in the lending and borrowing of materials. In this way we are able to provide to our own students, faculty, and local pastors, resources which we do not own ourselves. Likewise, as an interlibrary lender, we are able to provide materials for the study and understanding of Lutheranism beyond our own institutional and synodical boundaries. We enjoy excellent relationships with numerous other seminaries and schools of theology, with college and university libraries, and with major pubic libraries. And in nearly every instance we are able to procure a book or a photocopy of a journal article at no cost to the end user.
Concordia Seminary students wishing to request an item via InterLibrary Loan (ILL) should contact the ILL Desk, either in person at the Library's main Circulation Desk, by phone at 314.505.7031, or via e-mail. In order to locate and obtain the desired work efficiently, we need a complete bibliographic citation of the work desired. Also, students should plan ahead to allow adequate time for materials to be shipped and received. A typical time frame for a book is 2-3 weeks; for photocopied articles, 1 week is not unusual.
Loan periods, due dates, and renewals of materials borrowed via ILL are at the discretion of the lending library.
Libraries wishing to borrow from Concordia Seminary Library should submit an online request through OCLC's web-based Resource Sharing module in the FirstSearch/WorldCat online searching service.
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