GENERAL INFORMATION
with a total of 900 periodicals, including back runs. In auxiliary collections are to be found pamphlet files and a curriculum and unit collection for the Education and the Christian Education Departments. A number of special indexes provide access to volumes 1-50 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 simi lar materials. The main public catalog and other card files contain approximately 220,000 cards. Students also have access to the librari es of Long Beach, Long Beach State College, Whittier and Whittier Co ll ege, all within a short distance of the library. The staff consists of three librarians, three full-time semi-professional assistants , and several part-time studen t .assistants . 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 . Cata log ing is be ing done according to the standards of the American Library Assoc iati on a nd the Library of Congress. Standard equipment makes the library an attractive place to stud y and browse. AUDIO-VISUAL DEPARTMENT The College has an Audio-Visual Director who handles the equipment and services of the program. The Library is responsible for purchases, cataloging, and circulati on of materials. The coll ection of materials includes slides, filmstrips , flat pictures, flannelgraph materials , object lessons, globes, maps, phonograph records, tape recordings, etc. A few small slide and film strip projectors and a sc reen are available for circulation. Microfilm and micro card readers are availabl e. and a photocopying machine has been installed.
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