Rev. Deborah Ortiz

Bibliographic Resources for Bible Institutes

Déborah Enid Ortiz Rivera, MIS, MDiv is the Bilingual Reference and Acquisitions Librarian who oversees Biblioteca Digital Pitts, a project of Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology of Emory University (Atlanta, GA). Her vocation as a teacher led her to the seminary and later, to a career in the world of Christian publications within her denomination, and to serve as an instructor in the Bible institutes in her region. Her passion for education led her to pursue a degree in librarianship, and now works to promote academic, theological, digital and cultural fluencies in the Latino community. She is passionate about librarianship, ministerial formation and Latino theologies. Her most recent publications are “Pulseando con el difícil: Resourcing the Hispanic Latino Program” (2025); “De Homogenizing Liberation Theologies in the Catalog and on the Shelves” (2025). Atla Summary of Proceedings (2024); and the essay, “Biblioteca Digital Pitts: A Narrative of Developing a Virtual Library for the Hispanic Bible Institutes” to be published later this year in Virtual Projects in Theological Libraries.