Asian Pastoral Institute Library
The Asian Pastoral Institute (API) Library envisions to be an inter-disciplinary repository of Christian and practical resources with distinctives in Asian countries, religions, and perspectives and Pentecostal-Charismatic studies.
About Us
The API Library supports the study of Christian pastoral and theological studies, counselling and community work, and inter-cultural studies. Currently, the library has a physical holding of more than 37,000 book titles, 200 theses and dissertations, and a collection of more than 130 journals and magazine titles.
API Library’s digital resources includes Atlas PLUS®. API Library is also the co-owner of the Digital Theological Library 2 (DTL2)—a born-digital library for religious and theological studies. DTL2 contains high-quality e-books and full-text, peer-reviewed articles from various sources worldwide—comprising more than 119 databases, 1,400,000 books, 104,000,000 articles, 61,000 journals, and 492,000 theses/dissertations. DTL2 is CACREP compliant and supports the API counselling programmes as well.
Our History
| Year | Historical Development |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Library collection grew to more than 37,000 books, with additions made to support the studies of counselling and community work, and inter-cultural studies. |
| 2022 | Library moved into the new campus at Asian Pastoral Institute at 20 Aljunied Road, with a collection of some 34,000 books and an expansive digital library drawn from Digital Theological Library 2 and ATLA. |
| 2021 | Library subscribed to Vibrant, a cloud-based library management system, to enhance accessibility and reach of readership. It also acquired Digital Theological Library 2 to provide faculty and students with extensive digital access to e-books, journal articles and other quality theological resources for both education and research purposes. |
| 2003 | Library acquired VLib to enhance utilisation of library resources. |
| 2001 | Library moved to Crystal Tabernacle at 357 Pasir Panjang Road after completion of its phase 2 of development. |
| 1984 | Library collection grew to 3,414 books after 1,017 new books were added. |
| 1983 | Library adopted the Dewey Decimal Classification to organise its materials as a step towards professional librarianship. The number of books held by the library grew to 2,397. |
| 1977 | Library began as a training and development resource of The Tabernacle Church & Missions at Bible House, Armenian Street, with 763 books. |