ATLA's preservation program seeks to preserve and make accessible for future generations a variety of theological and religious materials. This goal is implemented two ways:

• through the sale of already preserved texts on microfilm—serials, monographs, and archival collections
• through grant-supported microfilming of at-risk serials on a continuing basis

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	Microform Collections

Ordering information--SUSPENDED DUE TO RESTRUCTURING OF  OPERATIONS

Summer 2009

ATLA is in the process of restructuring certain production operations, and therefore we have removed our online catalog (APCAT) and temporarily suspended any new orders for microfilm and microfiche.  ATLA recognizes that our customers continue to want to purchase microfilm and microfiche, and at this point we are making long-term plans to likely ensure availability and affordability of microform.  However, given the restructuring, It is likely that you will not be able to place any orders for microform for a significant period of time, likely through late 2010.  

NEWS: EBSCO has partnered with American Theological Library Association (ATLA) to provide selected collections of historical monographs and serials in digital format. http://www.ebscohost.com/uploads/thisTopic-dbTopic-1052.pdf

Fact Sheet on Collections: http://www.ebscohost.com/uploads/thisTopic-dbTopic-1171.pdf

ATLA Historical Monographs Collection: 13th Century to 1893 - http://www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=1&topicID=1152

ATLA Historical Monographs Collection: 1894 to 1923 - http://www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=1&topicID=1153

Here is some info on the viewer: http://support.ebscohost.com/uploads/kb/contentviewerhelpsheet.doc

Contact EBSCO for all inquiries related to sales, marketing, titles lists, trials availability and support. 

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Microform Collections

	Monographs on Microfiche
	Monographs on Microfilm
	Serials on Microfilm
	Christianity's Encounter with World Religions, 1850-1950
	Yale Day Missions Collection: Selections from Asia and the Pacific Rim
	African American Religious Periodical Literature, 1850-1950

Monographs on Microfiche

The Microfiche collection is arranged in eight Phases of more than 27,000 titles that correspond, broadly, to various subject areas. Titles are available for purchase individually, in entire Phases, and in 23 denominational collections. All microfiche share the following characteristics:

Medium:	archival-quality silver halide
Quality standard:	ANSI preservation
Cataloging format:	AACR2 and MARC record format
Cataloging:	available in OCLC and RLIN

Monographs on Microfilm

In addition to monographs on microfiche, ATLA also offers monographs on 35 mm microfilm. There are three main collections: General, Corpus of American Lutheranism, and Yale Day Missions Collection.

The General Collection, containing more than 1,700 titles, includes not only monographs filmed at the inception of the preservation program, but—since 1999—on-demand new dissertations as well. A special subset of the General Collection, the Corpus of American Lutheranism, contains 233 monograph titles and 6 serials. The General Collection of Monographs on Microfilm has the following characteristics:

Coverage:	international; from 18th to 21st century
Cataloging:	available in OCLC and RLIN

Serials on Microfilm

The foundation of ATLA preservation efforts, filming of serial titles, began in 1957. Today ATLA's complete microfilm holdings include more than 3,000 fully cataloged serial titles. Scholarly Resources-Gale has been the exclusive distributor of ATLA serials since 1996.

Standards:	ANSI/AIIM (filming); ANSI PH1.43 (storage)
Coverage:	international; from 19th to 21st century
Cataloging:	available in OCLC and RLIN

Christianity's Encounter with World Religions, 1850-1950

This collection is representative of non-Christian, missionary, and syncretistic religious journals documenting three areas: (1) the dramatic commitment to missions that North American churches demonstrated at the turn of the nineteenth century; (2) the initial journals available in North America representing the theological viewpoint of non-Western religions; and (3) titles that represent experimental and syncretistic religious movements, incorporating elements of both Western and non-Western religions. 

Coverage:	19th and 20th century global missions, both Christian and non-Christian, with an emphasis on Asia, India, and the Middle East; syncretistic religious journals
Cataloging:	available in OCLC and RLIN

Yale Day Missions Collection: Selections from Asia and the Pacific Rim

These selections from the Day Missions Collection of Yale University Divinity School Library comprise monographs relating to missionary activities of American, British, and German denominations and missionary societies during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Contents:	202 reels containing 1,284 titles
Coverage:	missionary activities in China, Japan, Korea, and the Pacific Rim
Cataloging:	OCLC (individual records and WorldCat Collection Sets) and RLIN

African American Religious Periodical Literature, 1850-1950

ATLA has completed Phase I of a two-year project to microfilm more than 170 historically significant African American religious periodicals. Supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, this significant project involves more than 50 contributing libraries. The titles included are foundational for understanding the development of the African American church in the twentieth century.  

Supplementing the periodical literature are titles from two other key areas: (1) annual reports and publications of African American churches and (2) reports from African American social service agencies.