Spring 2008
International Quaker Organizations
Subject Portal » Quaker Studies
librarians:
- Chris Densmore (SC)
- Ann Upton (HC)
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Print Resources for the Study of the Religious Society of Friends
A profitable first step into the printed Quaker resources in the Tri-Co with direct links to Tripod records.
Religious Society of Friends
The most complete site for an initial search to find anything about Quakers.
Street Corner Society
A site where the historical experience of Friends connects with issues of the day.
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ArchivesUSA
Provides descriptions of manuscripts, archive collections and other primary resource materials. This resource also serves as a directory of primary resource repositories located in the United States. Coverage varies.
The Dictionary of Quaker biography.
Publisher: Haverford, Pa. : Haverford College, Magill Library, Special Collections,
Brief biographies of selected Quakers with citations that lead to further research. This resource is strong for 18th Century and British Quakers.
Digital Quaker Collection
DQC is a digital library created by Earlham College, containing full text and page images of over 500 individual Quaker works from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Famous Quakers
Provides lists of primarily American Quakers past and present and links to biographical information. A good site to get ideas for reseach projects.
Find a Meeting
Provides a way to quickly find a current meeting in the US or Canada.
Monthly Meetings in North America: A Quaker Index
This site attempts to record basic historical information about every monthly meeting of the Religious Society of Friends that has ever existed in North America.
Quaker Heritage Press
Online selected historical Quaker texts. No page images available.
Quaker history.
Publisher: Haverford, Pa. : Friends Historical Association.
Presents scholarly articles on all aspects of the Society of Friends in the past. It is indexed in Historical Abstracts from 1960 to the present. Paper indexes and the journal from 1906 are available in the Quaker Collection.
QuakerInfo.com
Provides selected articles of Quaker issues in the news as well as links to Friends in different spheres of current culture. This is a dense site that can be browsed or searched successfully.
Quaker Libraries
Investigate the resources at specialized libraries of the Society of Friends.
Investigate the resources at specialized libraries of the Society of Friends.
Quaker necrology index.
Publisher: Haverford, Pa. : Haverford College, Magill Library, Special Collections.
This card catalog indexes death notices that have appeared in selected Quaker journals since 1828.
Quakers in the News
Twice per month, QiN sorts and publishes the collected attributes of current general interest news mentioning Friends. Citations are clearly provided as well as easy links to the news piece, itself.
Multi-Disciplinary Resources:
JSTOR
Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Search for “Quaker*” or “Society of Friends.” Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
OAIster
Allows for easy discovery of collections of inaccessible, academic digital resources. This is especially useful for finding visual resources. Search for “Quaker” or “Society of Friends” then limit by keyword and format.
Pennsylvania gazette
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Full text from: Folio 1 (1728) - Folio 4 (1800)
Publisher: Malvern, PA : Accessible Archives, [1728-1800]
Provider: AA
Provides full-text access to the Pennsylvania gazette a newspaper published in Philadelphia from 1728-1800. Find Quakers as reported in their world and place. This archive is fully digitized.
Project Muse
Provides access to journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Disciplines covered are humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.