Holy Trinity Seminary Library holds approximately 30,000 volumes and subscribes to roughly 100 periodicals. The library serves the needs of the Seminary's faculty, staff, and adjacent monastic brotherhood as well as the immediate Russian Orthodox community. About half the collection is Russian or Slavic, approximately half of which is considered unique, being made up of rare pre-revolutionary theological, historical, and philological titles as well as interwar émigré publications. The library's collection concentrates on all areas of Slavic and Orthodox studies. Holy Trinity Seminary Library, located in the lower level of the Seminary building, is open to the general public for educational and research purposes.

The library's hours, with the exception of summer vacation and holidays, are as follows:

Weekdays: 1:30-6:30 p.m.
Saturdays: 9:00-11:45 a.m.

The library has recently been renovated and is currently in the second year of a three to four year project to convert the card catalog to a computerized database. Currently approximately 11,000 records are in the electronic database, a number that increases weekly. A computer lab with Internet access is available for student use.

Holy Trinity Seminary’s archive houses records pertaining to the Russian emigration and includes rare émigré periodicals, ecclesiastical documents, and personal papers dating to the time of the Russian revolution and the subsequent Civil War. In January 2009, Holy Trinity Seminary, together with the Hoover Institution of War and Peace, completed a nineteen-month long NEH sponsored preservation and microfilming project.

For more information on this project, the archives holdings and to browse finding aids, click here.

For a complete listing of periodicals housed in the archives, please press on the link provided below, which will allow you to browse the archive’s periodical database.

Browse the periodical database

For questions regarding the Seminary's archives contact:

Protodeacon Vladimir Tsurikov
Director of Archives and Library Services
(315) 858-0945
vtsurikov@hts.edu