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The '''Post-Reformation Digital Library''' ('''PRDL''') is a [[database]] of digitized books from the [[early modern]] era. The collected titles are directly linked to full-text versions of the works in question. The bibliography was initially inclined toward [[Protestant]] writers from the [[Reformation]] and immediate [[Post-Reformation]] era (the later sometimes characterized as the age of [[Protestant Scholasticism]]). In its current development the project is moving toward being a comprehensive database of early modern [[theology]] and [[philosophy]] and also includes [[late medieval]] and [[Patristics|patristic]] works printed in the early modern period.

The database is a project of the [[Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Research]] at Calvin Theological Seminary, and was produced in cooperation with the H. Henry Meeter Center for [[John Calvin|Calvin]] Studies, a joint undertaking of [[Calvin College]] and [[Calvin Theological Seminary]].

As bibliographical projects such as [[VD 16]], [[VD 17]], and [[English Short Title Catalogue]], have a more narrow national or regional focus, meta-bibliographical tools such as PRDL and [[Early Modern Thought Online]] play a vital role in facilitating scholarship in the rapidly changing technological landscape.<sup>[1]</sup>

==See also==
* [[List of digital library projects]]
* [[Digital curation]]
* [[:Category:Digital libraries]]
* [[:Category:Geographic region-oriented digital libraries]]

==References==
* Ballor, J. J. (2012), "The dynamics of primary source and electronic resource: The digital renaissance and the post-reformation digital library." ''Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology,'' 38: 16–19.

==Further reading==
* [http://www.crcna.org/news.cfm?newsid=3149&section=1 Reformation Library Expands its Reach][[Christian Reformed Church in North America]].
* [http://www.refdag.nl/kerkplein/kerknieuws/webbibliotheek_met_theologisch_werk_gelanceerd_1_370117 | title = Webbibliotheek met theologisch werk gelanceerd] Reformatorisch Dagblad.
* [http://www.pres-outlook.org/news-and-analysis/1-news-a-analysis/9610-online-archive-opens-the-reformers-works-at-us-seminary.html | title = Online archive opens the Reformers' works at US seminary] The Presbyterian Outlook.
* [http://prdl.org/news.php?id=11 PRDL has a new home at Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Research of Calvin Theological Seminary] Post-Reformation Digital Library.
* [http://www.juniusinstitute.org/blog/junius-launch/ Calvin Theological Seminary launches new digital research center for Reformation studies] Junius Institute.

==External links==
* [http://www.prdl.org Post-Reformation Digital Library]

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