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Dissertation Information for Sister Mary Lucille Whalen

NAME:
- Sister Mary Lucille Whalen

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science

SCHOOL:
- Columbia University (USA) (1965)

ADVISORS:
- Allen T. Hazen

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Winifred B. Linderman
- Alice Bryan
- Oliver L. Lilley
- Robert Beach

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: THE LITERATURE USED IN CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT RESEARCH IN THEOLOGY

Abstract: Problem

The problem of this dissertation was to

determine characteristics of literature used

in doctoral research
in theoloqy as some basis for

selection,servicing and
housing of theological library collections.

The study
was designed to test hypotheses concerning

the form
national origin, and language of the

materials, relative
importance of subject areas in theology' and

in non-theological
fields, and time span between the date of

material and
its use.


Procedure
over eight thousand bibliographic references

were
compiled from one hundred doctoral research

studies in six
areas of theology, selected on ·the basis

of a stratified
random sampling of all dissertations

completed from 1952-
1961 in accredited institutions granting

doctoral degrees in
theolog. These CitatiOns were verified and

analyzed, and the followinq information was

coded on IBMcards, taped and processed on

the IBM 7090 Computer: type of material,

place
and date of publication, language, subject

area of theology
(based on Union Theological Seminary

classification) or of
non-theological works (based on Library of

Congress classification), author and title.

Findings
It was found that 7l.5 per cent of the

materials
were monographic, 22 per cent in serial

form and 6.5 per
cent in other forms. The highest percentages

of books (68.3 per cent) and joumals(60.5

per cent) were United States
publications. The language most frequently

used was English :78.6 per cent for books

and 86.1 per cent for journals. Of
the thirty most frequently cited journals

the majority were
in theology or were religiously oriented.

OVer half of the materials were produced in

the United States, England (17.3 per cent),

Germany (7.5 per cent) and
France (6.4 per cent)following.The language

distribution
was 78.1 per cent for English and 21.9 per

cent for other
languages, German (8.9 per cent) and French

(6.3 per cent) being most frequent.

Protestants most often cited materials
in English (80.5 per cent) and German (12.4

per cent),
Catholics materials in Latin (38.1 per cent)

and French,(25.9 per cent).

Approximately two-thirds of the materials

cited were
in tbeoloqy and one-third in non theological

fields. Most
frequently cited in theology were Bible

Studies (26.7 per
cent) and Doctrine (17.1 per cent), Liturgy

(2.5 per cent)
and Moral,Theo1ogy (1.3 per cent) being the

least frequent.
Works most frequently cited in non-

theoloqical fields were in history (27.4 per

cent) and philosophy (14.9 per cent). Art
and music were least cited, each, ranking

only 0.1 per cent.
OVer eighty-five per cent of the monographs

in almost all ields were cited once or twice

only.

As for time span, about seventy five per

cent of all literature cited was published

after 1900 and ninety per cent
after 1800, greatest use being of

publications from 1946-1955.
The bulk of materials from France, Germany

and Scotland was
from earlier periOds.. Materials in English

tended to be
recent and most foreign language materials

publications from
1900-1940, about fifty per cent of the

Scandinavian materials,
however, being from 1851-1900. In theology 9

works from 1951-1955 showed the highest use

9 especially in Bible Studies. In
other fields, greatest use was of fairly

recent works, except
in history, where the highest use was for

publications from
1901-1910.
Some implications for library administration

miqht be,
(1) because of the high per~ages of

materials cited only
onCe or twice, selection should consider

major areas of general
interest and some specialties, including

non-·theological works.
(2) because of limited space in departmental

libraries, special
thought must be given to centralization or

joint housing and
lists of most-used materials, (3) since the

rate of Obsolescence is slower than for

other fields and some great theological
works are not available in printed form,

there should be
close attention to storage and micro-

reproduction, (4) theological
libraries may find oooperation a survival

factor because of the wide range of

materials necessary for theological
research.





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ADVISEES:
- None

COMMITTEESHIPS:
- None