Everett L. Cattell Library

The Friends Library is a special division of the Everett L. Cattell Library, which houses a diverse collection of Friends (Quaker) writings. Materials range from historical to contemporary, including Yearly Meeting minutes, genealogical information, periodicals, reports, and books. While numerous materials stem from Malone’s close relationship with the Evangelical Friends Church, the collection also includes Yearly Meeting minutes and documents from Friends churches nationwide.

Materials in this library are available for student, faculty, staff, and community patron use, and are circulated on the same basis as regular books.

Additional Friends Resources

Friends in North America generally worship in churches with pastors (programmed worship) or in silent, “unprogrammed” meetings.

While some meetings are part of the following of independent yearly meetings, most local Friends’ meetings in North America are affiliated with one of the following branches of Quakerism: (Descriptions provided are generalizations)

• Listing of churches and meetings in North America
• Listing of churches and meetings in the United States and Worldwide 
• Friends Library at Malone information guide 

Conservative Meetings

Unprogrammed worship, non-pastoral, conservative, silent worship tradition.

Evangelical Friends International Affiliated

Programmed, pastoral, evangelical worship tradition

3350 Reed St.
Wheat Ridge, Colorado 80033

303.328.5200

Friends General Conference Affiliated

Unprogrammed, non-pastoral, silent worship tradition

1216 Arch St. 2B
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107

Friends United Meeting Affiliated

Programmed or semi-programmed and unprogrammed, worship traditions

101 Quaker Hill Dr.
Richmond, Ind. 47374

765.962.7573

In order to support our students who are also teacher candidates, we offer a curriculum library which provides access to a wide range of educational textbooks and materials. Items are grouped by subject matter and grade level. In many cases, supporting workbooks, teacher guides, and lab manuals accompany the items.

Our collection of juvenile fiction and non-fiction works contains a variety of items from cherished favorites to contemporary authors, graphic novels, pop-up books, and more. Fiction for this younger audience is shelved separately, making it easier to find age-appropriate material. Books from this collections circulate to students, faculty/staff and community patrons.

With the growing popularity of graphic novels, the Cattell Library collection has become an increasingly important part of Malone’s offerings. This collection highlights librarian and faculty-recommended titles for all age levels, including award winners (Art Speigelman’s Maus, for instance, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992). Types of graphic novels include adventure, biographical, fantasy, superhero, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction and more. Standards for rating materials by age appropriateness are strictly applied.