Our users in April 2026 In October 2025 we published a post 'Who are our users in October 2025?', and last month we offered a glimpse of where our users live by a news item Mapping our users: are you on it? What follows is not only an update on numbers, but also is a qualitative better report on…

9th and 10th Apr 2026: library open, but the LJC front door not open in the afternoon! We are open, as scheduled. See our opening hours. The London Jesuit Centre's reception will probably be unstaffed on Thursday (9 April 2026) and Friday (10 April 2026) in the afternoon, so the front door is…

Reminder opening hours : out of LJC term time! A‍s the teaching term at the London Jesuit Centre finished in March, the Heythrop Library provides shorter opening hours until Sunday 26 April 2026. Monday 9.30am - 5.30pm Tuesday 9.30am - 6.30pm Wednesday 9.30am - 5.30pm Thursday 9.30am - 5.30pm…

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Converts : from Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, why so many became Catholic in the 20th century / Melanie McDonagh. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

Library online presentation All members of the Heythrop Library team plus the Campion Hall Librarian (Oxford) will give an online presentation about Jesuits Libraries. This is part of the Libraries of Faith series, which has been organized by the Association of British Theological and…

List of books catalogue: March 2026 Those of you who have accompanied the Heythrop Library's activities in the last 4-5 years, might remember that we used a free online tool called LibraryThing to add all our new acquisitions, published after 2000. Here is a list of the books we catalogued in…

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Engaging coloniality : the liberative story of Christianity in Latin America / edited by Raimundo C. Barreto Jr. and Mark A. Lamport. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : God's influencer : a short biography of Carlo Acutis / Michael Collins. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

A series problem About 10 days ago we had an enquiry arrive in our inbox, which almost made my heart stop. Well, not really, but I know if someone asks about a serial in our collection (whether a scholarly journal or a magazine) this could spell trouble, or at least some cumbersome detective work.…

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Catholics in London 1800-1850 / Jean Olwen Maynard. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

Easter break 2026 We will be closed on Good Friday (3 April 2026) and Easter Monday (6 April 2026). Last day open before Easter: Maundy Thu (2nd April): 9:30-17:30.First day open after Easter: Tue (7th April): 9:30-18:30. Deadline for last requests before Easter: Tue 31st March, 2pm - for delivery…

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Analytic Islamic epistemology : critical debates / edited by Safaruk Chowdhury and Ramon Harvey. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

Heythrop Institute Theology Seminars, 2025-26 @londonjesuit.bsky.social Thu (26/03/26), 4:00 to 5:30pm! Dr Ashley Cocksworth - 'The Pathos of Joy'. More: londonjesuitcentre.churchsuite.com/events/db8xi... 2 of the speaker's books hey.koha.openfifth.net/cgi-bin/koha... #BePrepared #Seminars #Talks

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Not a hope in hell / James Dominic Rooney. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

Changing opening hours : end of LJC term time ‍To coincide with the end of the teaching term at the London Jesuit Centre, Heythrop Library is returning to shorter opening hours, from Saturday 28 March 2026, until Sunday 26 April 2026. Monday 9.30am - 5.30pm Tuesday 9.30am - 6.30pm Wednesday 9.30am…

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : St. Edith Stein's aesthetic : beauty and sanctity: masterpiece of the divine artist / Elizabeth A. Mitchell. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

#ExploringCollections Heythrop Library : featuring a selection of our holdings from the Mount Street Reading Room concerning #earlychristianity You can browse our specialist book collection and see what you can discover for yourself here: hey.koha.openfifth.net/#ExploringCollections#earlychristianity

Subject list : Jesuitica 1 Cover of The Second World War through Jesuit Archives: The case of Europe (1939-1945), Heythrop Library copy at BX7460.8 SEC 2026. This is another instalment in a series of us providing subject lists of (post-2000) books we have added in the last six months (since 1…

#NewAcquisition @heythroplib.bsky.social : The Second World War through Jesuit archives : the case of Europe (1939-1945) / edited by Damien Burke, Rebecca Somerset and Christian Taoutel. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.net/cgi-bin/koha...

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Maynooth College reflects on catechesis in the life of the church / edited by Jeremy Corley, Andrew Meszaros, John Paul Sheridan. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

Service disruption: Saturday 21 March 2026 This coming Saturday, 21st March 2026, the Heythrop Library will be impacted by the Open Day taking place at the London Jesuit Centre. Although the library will be operating with its usual Saturday opening hours of 9:30 am to 2 pm, there will be…

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Sense and thought : a study in Mysticism / by Greta Hort, M.A., PhD., Sometime Pfeifer Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

#NewAcqusition Heythrop Library: After Newman : a eulogy for Anglo-Catholics, 1845-1965 / Aidan Nichols, OP. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

List of New Acquisitions (12 Feb to 12 March 2026) Those of you who have accompanied the Heythrop Library's activities in the last 4-5 years, might remember that we used a free online tool called LibraryThing to add all our new acquisitions. For various reasons we hadn't managed to coax out…

Our Journals : Biblische Zeitschrift In Our journals we introduce you to all our journals; currently, there are over 140 live journals we subscribe to. If you would like to explore this series, please click on Title of journal Biblische Zeitschrift Published since 1957 ISSN 0006-2014 (print) &…

Mapping our users: are you on it? We are hoping to gain external funding for a project; and if you are one of our members and cannot see yourself on the map, especially if you live outside London, please contact us with your postal address. Of course, you might be reading this and are not yet a…

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Face to face : the theology of the icon / Aidan Hart. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : The spiritual director : Practising the charism of presence and attention / Julia Mourant. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Losing a Kingdom, Gaining the World : The Catholic Church in the Age of Revolution and Democracy / Ambrogio A. Caiani Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

The symbolism of marriage in early Christianity and the Latin middle ages : images, impact, cognition / edited by Line Cecilie Engh. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

Give to gain : International Women’s Day 2026 You might ask why a man is writing about International Women’s Day (IWD), why the heading is “give to gain”, and what qualifies me as a librarian to write about it on this blog. I’m not going to overpromise here, but my organisation, The Jesuits in…

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Engaging Nicene Trinitarianism : historical analysis, theological exploration, and contemporary relevance / edited by Matthias Grebe, Nadine Hamilton and Christian Schlenker. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Interpreting Jesus / Dale C. Allison Jr. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

Improved renewal notices We have recently improved the system-generated renewal notices, so that the email warns you that an automatic renewal is the last of its kind: There were 2 items that were renewed. Jesus of Nazareth : 1921024360 was renewed until 30/03/2026This item has reached the maximum…

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Women in Christianity in the age of Enlightenment, 1650-1800 / edited by Hugo Córdova Quero and Cristian Mor. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

Work experience February 2026 Ready for covering a modern paperback with a plastic cover. For my sixth-form college’s work experience week, I decided to undertake a placement at Heythrop Library, where I gained an insight into what a librarian’s role at a specialist library looks like. During the…

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Black eco-theology through history : the African-American experience / Dianne D. Glave. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Political theology and the conflicts of democracy / Nicholas Norman-Krause, Belmont University. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Method, meaning, mystery / Timothy Verdon. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

100,000th record – revisited We recently catalogued the 100,000th record on our library system, and this was a news item on the Jesuits in Britain web page: The record is a volume of multiple, themed issue of the Concilium journal, see  Amelia Leventhal (Heythrop Library Cataloguer) catalogued the…

The poster from @jrsuk.bsky.social is on our wall, and you can find their Lenten Appeal: www.jrsuk.net/lent/ ; we have many books to explore Lent, 3 found by via hey.koha.openfifth.net/cgi-bin/koha... are a start. 32 books in our reading room "cover" refugees: hey.koha.openfifth.net/cgi-bin/koha...

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Jean-Luc Nancy and the deconstruction of Christianity / Ashok Collins. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Haunting Questions of Liberation Theology / Edited by Jione Havea. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

#ExploringCollections Heythrop Library: featuring a selection of our holdings from the Mount Street Reading Room concerning #theologyandliterature You can browse our specialist book collection and see what you can discover for yourself here: hey.koha.openfifth.net/ #ExploringCollections

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : How to read Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics in one book : a sequential guide to his magnum opus / Daniel Chitrada. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

Philosophy Collection Development 2025-2026 During and continuing from my week of work experience at Heythrop Library, one of the projects I was allocated was the development of both logic and women philosophers, which I had been given due to my familiarity with the field of philosophy. This,…

Philosophy Collection Development 2025-2026 During and continuing from my week of work experience at Heythrop Library, one of the projects I was allocated was the development of both logic and women philosophers, which I had been given due to my familiarity with the field of philosophy. This,…

New Wi-Fi access points The London Jesuit Centre is currently replacing all Wi-Fi access points throughout the buildings. As of today, the new Wi-Fi network all Heythrop Library users should be connecting to is called LJC Visitors. This is a secured network, and you can connect by using a QR code…

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : The textual transmission of the New Testament : manuscripts, variants, and authority / Juan Chapa ; translated by Juan Hernández, Jr. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : The phenomenology of the second-person plural / Sarah Pawlett Jackson. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...