BOOK STORE The school operates the Biola Book Room, which handles the textbooks used in all classes. THE LIBRARY The Biola Library is under a unified administration, and the main collection serves all Biola schools. Departmental collections are also main tained for the two graduate schools: The School of Missionary Medicine and Talbot Theological. Seminary. Present holdings include about 32,000 volumes, including periodicals, and a collection of 287 Braille titles. In auxiliary collections are to be found pamphlet fil es, a curriculum collection for the Education Division and the Christian Education Department, an audio-visual center in which are flat pictures, flannelgraph materials, slides, phonograph records, object lessons, a story file, etc. A number of special indexes provide access to the complete run of The King's Business magazine and to partial runs of other periodicals, to songs and hymns, sermons and sermon outlines, homiletic and poetic illustrations, and similar materials. The main public catalog and other card files contain in all approximately 150,000 cards. Students also have access to the huge collection of the Los Angeles Public Library half a block away, and graduate students have access to all the scholarly libraries of the area, which contain several million volumes. · The staff consists of the Librarian, three Assistants, and several part-time student assistants. The Librarian is Director of the Library Science Depart ment, which offers a minor in the College. The Library is an ideal workshop for students in Library Science, and it is the purpose of the staff to make it a mod el for study. Cataloging is being done according to the standards of the American Library Association and the Library of Congress. AUDIO-VISUAL DEPARTMENT The audio-visua l equipment and services of Biola College are under the administration of the Library. Standard equipment of recent manufacture is available for use in the classrooms and to a limited extent for Christian service assignments . The collection of materials includes slides, filmstrips, disc records, tapes, flat pictures, flannelgraph materials, object l essons, globes, and maps. Equipment includes a motion picture proj ector, slide and filmstrip projectors, r ecord players, tape recorders, overhead and opaque projectors, and screens . Motion pictures are rented, but slides and filmstrips purchased. All departments of the College are served and special collections are being assembled in the Education and Christian Education Curriculum Departments of the Library. SUMMER SESSION Each year the College conducts a Summer Session in which members of the r egular faculty serve as instructors. College credit is granted upon satisfactory completion of courses. The regular academic entrance require ments apply to those who enroll during the Summer. For information concerning the Summer Session, write to the Director of the Summer Sess ion. 15
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