How to Search
The catalog of the Jacques Maritain Center's holdings may be found on
our World Wide Web page at
http://www.nd.edu/~maritain.
If you are in the Jacques Maritain Center, you can start Netscape on the
Macintosh computer. Netscape on this computer should automatically
display the Jacques Maritain Center's WWW page.
There you will find descriptions of three manuscript collections (the
papers of Jacques Maritain, Yves
R. Simon, and Charles de Koninck) and of the
books held by the Center. The inventories of the papers and the
bibliographies describing our books follow the same order as the items
they describe.
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Papers
Each inventory begins with a general description and provides a more
detailed box/folder list and an index. To find any given item, first
go to the general location of the papers (see the map of the Jacques
Maritain Center). Each entry in these inventories has a number
indicating the location of the item described. JM 3/12 means Jacques
Maritain Papers, box 3, folder 12.
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Books and Dissertations
The bibliography follows the same order as
the books on the shelves. If you find a book listed in "Books by
Jacques Maritain", you should go to that section of the book collection
(with the help of our map). Books by the Maritains are generally
arranged alphabetically by English title; books or dissertations by
others are arranged by author's last name.
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Interactive Searching
Choose "Search
Index" on our WWW (Netscape) page. Type in your search
terms, following the instructions provided online. If the program
finds pertinent entries, it will list them, indicating where in the
Maritain Center one can find them (e.g., "Jacques Maritain Papers:
2/09", meaning box two folder nine, or "Books: A", meaning books by
authors other than the Maritains whose names begin with A. In each
entry, the program will provide a link to the more complete inventory
or bibliography, in case you want to see the line in context. Once you
have the inventory or bibliography on the screen, you'll need to use
Netscape's ability to search within a file to find the pertinent
information.
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Maritain's Collected Works
Choose "Jacques
Maritain's Collected Works" to see a description of
a project undertaken by the Jacques Maritain Center to publish a
complete English edition of Maritain's works. You can see which
volumes have already been published, and order them if you like; or you
can subscribe to the whole series and receive the books as they come
out.
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Readings
Choose "Aristotle et al.: Readings" to see
our online library of Thomist texts, including works by Jacques
Maritain, writings representative of the Thomistic Revival from the
late 1800s and early 1900s, and links to other World Wide Web pages of
interest to Catholics and philosophers, including the works of Plato
and Aristotle, pages dedicated to Jacques Maritain and Thomism, an
English translation of St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae,
and many others.
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Dictionaries
Choose "Latin Wordlist
and Grammar Aid" or "French Dictionary and
Grammar Aid" and you will find resources to help you as you read the
works of Jacques Maritain or other Thomist philosophers.
We also have a link to a list of Other
Dictionaries.