Memorial Library on the La Mirada campus. Present holdings of the Biola Library include about 45,000 volumes and some 200 periodicals. In auxiliary collections are to be found pamphl et fil es and a curriculum collection for the Education and the Christian Education Departments. 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, ser mons and sermon outlines, homiletic and poetic illustrations, and similar materials. The main public catalog and other card files contain in all approximately 175,000 cards. Students also have access to the libraries of Long Beach and Long Beach State College, and Whittier and Whittier College, all within a short dis tance of the library. Graduate students have access to all the scholarly libraries of the area, which contain several million volumes. The staff consists of the Librarian, one professional Assistant, two full time semi-professional Assistants, and several part-time student assistants. The Librarian is Director of the Library Science Department, 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 model for study. Cataloging is being done according to the standards of the American Library Association and the Library of Congress. AUDIO-VISUAL DEPARTMENT The College now has an Audio-Visual Director who handl es the equip ment and services of the program. The Library is responsible for purchases, cataloging, and circulation of materials. The collection of materials includes slides, filmstrips, flat pictures, flannelgraph materials, object lessons, globes, maps, phonograph records, tape r ecordings, etc. A few small slide and film strip projectors and a screen are available for circulation.
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