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==Library== The library of the General Theological Seminary has been known as the St. Mark's Library since the 1960s. In 2011, the library moved into a new facility on the east side of the Close, on the site of the former Sherrill Hall. In October 2011, the building was dedicated as the [[Christoph Keller, Jr.]] Library, to honor the tenth [[Bishop of Arkansas]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Seminary Library - General Theological Seminary - Acalog ACMS™ |url=http://catalog.gts.edu/content.php?catoid=4&navoid=75 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107125243/http://catalog.gts.edu/content.php?catoid=4&navoid=75 |archive-date=2014-01-07 |access-date=2012-07-31}}</ref> According to [[Niels Henry Sonne]], "The Library of The General Theological Seminary is a magnificent treasury of books, manuscripts, records and source materials for the study of the life and thought of Christianity."<ref>Sonne, p.3.</ref> The library's first donation was by [[John Pintard]] in 1820 and, within a year, the library had grown to over 2,500 volumes. J. H. Feltus was the first librarian and, in 1834, the [[Friends of the Library]] association was formed and their [[Financial endowment|endowment]] is still productive today. Under the direction of [[Eugene Augustus Hoffman]], who became dean in 1879, the library was classified and catalogued using modern systems and [[Hobart Hall]] was built to house the collection. Hoffman also bought the Walter A. Copinger collection of [[Latin Bible]]s and made other significant purchases.<ref>Sonne, p.6</ref> The library has a collection of ancient Bibles and [[English Bible]]s. The Ancient Bible Collection includes a [[Hebrew Bible]] from 1264, in which the comment was so written as to form decorative pictures. It also includes three tenth-century Gospels, one decorated with colored miniatures, and a complete Latin Bible from about 1250. In 2024, GTS announced that it would move 6,500 rare books and 13 archival collections from the GTS Keller Library (which is closed for most of the year) to the VTS campus library (which is more convenient for scholars).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Burridge |first=Nicky |date=2024-04-05 |title=General Theological Seminary library to move rare book collection to VTS |url=https://anglican.ink/2024/04/05/general-theological-seminary-library-to-move-rare-book-collection-to-vts/ |access-date=2024-11-11 |website=Anglican Ink © 2024 |language=en-US}}</ref> GTS owned a [[Gutenberg Bible]] from 1898 to 1978, when it sold the book for $2.2 million to the [[Württembergische Landesbibliothek]] in [[Stuttgart, Germany]].<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Reif |first=Rita |date=1978-04-08 |title=Gutenberg Bought at Auction for $2 Million for Stuttgart Library |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/04/08/archives/new-jersey-pages-gutenberg-bought-at-auction-for-2-million-for.html |access-date=2024-11-11 |work=The New York Times}}</ref> One of the pages of this copy was found to have been forged and was replaced with another page from another incomplete Gutenberg Bible, making this the first incomplete Gutenberg Bible to be made whole again.<ref name=":0">St. Mark's Library (General Theological Seminary). The Gutenberg Bible of the General Theological Seminary. New York: St. Mark's Library, the General Theological Seminary, 1963. Pages 4–5.</ref>
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