Story Eleven: A Bible on the List

Recap: In 2022, twenty-four Minnesota libraries joined together in a commitment to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota. It is called the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. Here is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection.

Because many colleges in Minnesota have religious affiliations—Lutheran, Catholic, and others—very few books on Christian theology are on our retention list. In fact, there is only one Christian Bible to be found there. While we at the Krueger Library do have a copy of the recent high-quality, multi-volume edition of the Bible produced at St. John’s University in Collegeville, it is widely held in Minnesota and is not on our retention list. Instead, Winona State seems to be the only library in Minnesota that possesses the 1983 edition of the text which was distributed to motels by the Gideons International.

The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments: The Revised Berkeley Version in Modern English. Nashville, Tenn: Gideons International, 1983.