Verbum | Seminary Remote Research Library

Catholic colleges and seminaries have been forced by the pandemic to send their students home to finish the semester online. The transition to video lectures and online assignments hasn’t been easy, but it’s even harder to take your campus library online. But with a robust online library from Verbum, your students can continue their theology and biblical studies at home. Verbum is temporarily providing free access to a remote research library for your Catholic seminarians, students, and faculty to use through July 1st.

Don’t let remote research leave your students without their books.

Enjoy these theology and biblical studies resources included with each remote research library license:

Lexham Press Seminary Essentials Bundle (27 vols.): This is a library of original languages materials for study and research in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.
Classic Catholic Scholarship Collection (544 Resources): We’ve pulled together hundreds of works from the most trusted Catholic authors and teachers like St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, and G.K. Chesterton, as well as classics from pagan antiquity and useful philology reference titles.

Step 1: Find or Create Your School Group for Free

Check to see if your school already has a Faithlife group. If not, create one for your school now.

Find your group OR create a new group

If you create a new group for your school, be sure to set your privacy level to “private” during your group set-up so that your students can find your group and request to join.

If you already have a group, make sure that the privacy levels are at “private” by navigating to Settings > Group Settings in the sidebar of your group page and looking under the Privacy and Safety heading for your group.

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Note: If you are a student looking for a solution for your studies this semester, send this page to your school administrator so they can enroll your school in this program.

Step 2: Request Licenses for Your Students

After completing Step 1, fill out the form below with the requested information, and we’ll start working to grant everyone in your school group access to the remote research library.

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Step 3: Invite Your Students

Our team will confirm your school’s request within 2–3 business days and unlock the appropriate number of licenses. You can then invite your students to your school’s online group to give them library access.

How to Invite

Invite directly from your school group. From faithlife.com, navigate to your school’s group. Click Invite in the top right, then Add contacts to upload the email addresses of your students and faculty. Personalize your message so your students and faculty know what to do next. We recommend telling your students to click the link in the email to create a Faithlife account (if they haven’t already) and join the group.
Send them an email with a link to your group. To do this, copy and paste the link for your school’s group from your browser window and link to this in your school’s email communication with students.

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Step 4: Continue Learning

Now that you have a Faithlife group for your students, you can take advantage of the many other communication tools through the Faithlife platform.

For example, you can post announcements, create discussion topics or subgroups, schedule calendar events, send out newsletters, and more. Faithlife is a great way to keep your entire community connected during this unusual time.

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