Catalogues of Libraries / Archives

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1. n.d.. Archives, Bahá'í: Guidance Regarding, by Bahá'u'lláh and Shoghi Effendi. [about]
2. 2022. Reference Desk, The: Projects that Support Bahá'í Scholarship in the Digital Age. 13 presentations on how digital technologies are supporting Bahá’í scholarship. Webmasters, bibliographers, genealogists, and archivists speak about their journey in reference projects: origins, progress, and insights into how their projects are used. [about]
3. 2021. Select Clevenger Archives, 1926-1936. Personal letters to Ella Robarts, the National Spiritual Assembly, Horace Holley, and others; article "The Riddle of the Slain Co-ed" from Insider Detective. [about]
4. 2021. bahailib.com Website Archive. Archive of all PDF files from the expired website bahailib.com, including Excel table-of-contents. There are 1740 files named sequentially, 1.pdf ... 1742.pdf, totaling 13GB. [about]
5. 2018-08. History of the Baha'i Faith in North Carolina, 1845-1970: Presentations from the First Summer Seminar. Presentations at the first Summer Seminar on the history of the Bahá'í Faith in North Carolina, organized by Steven Kolins, sponsored by the Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of Orange County NC, Aug 3-5 2018, at the Efland Bahá'í Center. [about]
6. 2014. Recollections of Pilgrimage: Nine Days with the Guardian in 1957, by Bill Washington. Lengthy account of 9 days in the Holy Land. Appendixes include list of items in the Archives, stories told by other pilgrims, and discussion of the Ten-Year Plan. [about]
7. 2014-12. Searchable online catalogues for US National Bahá'í Library and Louhelen Library, by Roger M. Dahl and Lewis Walker. Overview of and links to online catalogues for two American Bahá'í archives. [about]
8. 2003-01. International Conference on Bahá'í Libraries and Archives. Conference convened at Landegg International University for people to share experiences, learn about best practices, and begin developing a structure for world interaction among those who handle and organize Bahá’í library and archival materials. [about]
9. 2001. Concept of the "Perfect Man" (Pole) in Sufism and the Bahá'í Notion of the Manifestation of God, The, by Youli A. Ioannesyan, in Lights of Irfan, Book 2. While there is an obvious similarity between the Sufi concept of the "Perfect Man" and the Bahá'í concept of the "Manifestation of God," there are also striking differences; the theologies of at-Tirmidhí, Ibn al-'Arabí, Dáwud-al-Qaysarí, and Haydar Amulí. [about]
10. 2001. Bahá'í Classification Schemes, by William P. Collins. Explanation of the expanded filing scheme for Bahá'í topics used at the Bahá'í World Centre Library, and outlines of two other classification schemes which could be adopted by private Bahá'í archives. [about]
11. 2001-06-01. European Bahá'í Archives Workshop. Essays and handouts from a workshop on preservation of source material. Includes forms for archivists, historians, local and national assemblies, archiving methods, oral history guidelines, organizational schemes, and compilations from the Writings. [about]
12. 2000. "Phoenix Schedule" for the Dewey '200s', Suggested in particular for Bahá'í Libraries, A, by Paul Gerard, in Australian Bahá'í Studies, vol. 2. On the structure and limitations of the Dewey Decimal Scheme, with a detailed expanded subset for Bahá'í material. [about]
13. 2000. Dwight Barstow Collection. Partial scans of the 478 translated tablets and other English documents from the archive of American collector Dwight Barstow. [about]
14. 2000. Dutch Library Holdings. Complete list of items relating to Bábí or Bahá'í studies housed in the three principle libraries in the Netherlands. [about]
15. 2000. Barstow Collection: Contents, Index, and Compiler's Notes, by Thellie Lovejoy. Introduction to and contents list of the 478 translated tablets and other English documents from the library of American collector Dwight Barstow. [about]
16. 1999. Persian/Arabic Bahá'í Books in the Library of Ahang Rabbani. Private library of Persian and Arabic sacred writings and other Bahá'í-related material. [about]
17. 1999-07. Digital Archiving at the Bahá'í World Centre Library, by Bahá'í International Archives, in Scriptum: Newsletter for Bahá'í Librarians & Information Professionals, 8. A paper written by staff at the Bahá'í World Centre Library (and approved for publication) about organization and methods of electronic-media archiving, as of 1999. [about]
18. 1998. Eshraghieh and Mahmoud Rabbani Collection, by Bosch Bahá'í School library. Arabic and Persian books, tablets, and manuscripts held at the Bosch Bahá'í School library. [about]
19. 1998/2000. Publishing, Bahá'í, Memorandum on: Materials to be Deposited with the Bahá'í World Centre Library, by Bahá'í International Archives and Universal House of Justice. Overview of Literature Review, publishing, translations, and details of the requirement of sending copies of all materials to the World Center archives. [about]
20. 1997. Juan Cole manuscript and book collection: Shaykhi, Babi, and Baha'i texts. Manuscripts and books in Cole's library and selected Iranian National Bahá'í Archive contents. [about]
21. 1984. Letters to and from US Presidential Archives. A collection of correspondence circa 1984 from and to archivist David Piff concerning Bahá'í-related holdings. Also included is some correspondence between offices of the presidents and the US National Spiritual Assembly and the BIC. [about]
22. 1976-1978. Iranian National Bahá'í Archives (INBA). 105 volumes of Bahá'í writings and manuscripts, compiled before the Islamic revolution in Iran by the Bahá'í National Spiritual Assembly and distributed as photocopies to Bahá'í scholars and archives, for preservation. [about]
23. 1907-1974/2021. Emma Maxwell (Maxie) Jones Collection. 63 documents collected by Maxie Jones covering a wide variety of topics and sources: pilgrims' notes, letters of Shoghi Effendi, convention reports, Tablets, hymns, compilations, talks of Ruhiyyih Khanum, personal letters of early Bahá'ís. [about]
24. 1849-1926. George and Phoebe Apperson Hearst papers, 1849-1926, by George Hearst and Phoebe Hearst. 448 pages of documents, provided by archive.org. Includes only passing mentions of the Bahá'í Faith. [about]

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