The Denis Hurley Library

Operating Times

08.00 – 16:00 Monday to Thursday
08.00 – 12:00 Friday

Photocopying Availability

Photocopying facilities are available in the Library and make use of the “card” system to operate the photocopier. Cards are available at the Issue Desk.

Langauge Availability

Among the ancient biblical commentaries are books in French, German, Italian and Latin. The strong areas of the Library are on Catholic History, Scripture, Patristics, Spirituality, Sociology, Cultural Anthropology and African Studies.

Advanced Search

Login to the UKZN Library here, then use search or advanced search.

Audio-visual Facilities

Audio-visual facilities include a Video/DVD viewing room in which the Library’s growing collection of Videos and dvd ‘s may be seen. This collection includes numerous amateur Videos as well as many commercially made Videos and DVD’s on a broad range of subjects.

View our Online Public Access Catalogue. Older works which have not yet been added to our new database are still accessible through the UKZN Library Online Search, scroll down to the “Narrow your search” section and choose “Theological Cluster Libraries (Pietermaritzburg Region) in the “Limit to:” option.

View SMMS Online Catalogue

Those who are authorized to do so may access E-Journals at Ebscohost or JSTOR.

The Studia historiae ecclesiasticae journal can be found here

Biblical Studies.org.uk is an online resource that aims “to make high quality theological material freely available throughout the world, thus providing Bible teachers and pastors with the resources they need to spread the Gospel in their countries.” You can visit it via this link Biblical Studies.org.uk

Sharing the Word is another online resource which aims “to boost access to open source theological library resources freely available through the Internet, especially for Christians in countries which lack access to adequate theological libraries.” Visit the site via this link Sharing the Word

The Institute’s library holdings of about 38 000 titles and about 250 Journals (including non-current Journals) are housed in the modern and air-conditioned Denis E. Hurley Library, named after Archbishop Denis E. Hurley OMI (1915 – 2004), Archbishop of Durban (1947-1993) and Chancellor of the then University of Natal 1993-1998. A keen intellectual, at the official opening of the library, Archbishop Hurley remarked that he always had a love affair with books. He also described the 1950s as an era in which books literally poured out of the printing works of the world, enlightening the mind of the church in preparation for the second Vatican Council.

How to contact the Library:
Direct telephone line: +27 87 353 8940/1 ext 228
E-mail: library@sjti.ac.za