GENERAL INFORMATION / 17 dents, for their own benefit and in order that they might serve as wholesome examples and leaders wherever they may live and work. Spiritual Obf ectives: The College aims to send forth men and women who express through their lives a complete and valid commitment to the claims of Christ; a comprehensive knowledge of the Word of God, with ability to use it in all walks of life in leading men to Christ and, with wisdom, to teach it to believers that they may grow in grace; and an enduement with power by the infilling of the Holy Spirit, expressing itself in Christian love for all men and a desire for their salvation. Vocat'ional Obfectives: The College seeks to provide thorough preparatory training in those areas of its curriculum in which students may desire to pur sue graduate work leading to a profession. It seeks also to provide adequate terminal training in those areas of its curriculum which are designed to prepare students for their life work. BOOK STORE Biola College maintains a book store where text books, paper backs, school supplies, and other items may be purchased. THE LIBRARY The Biola Library 1s under a unified administration, and the main collection serves a ll Biola schools. Departmental collections are also maintained for The School of Missionary Medicine and Talbot Theological Seminary. The School of Missionary Medicine collection is housed on the ninth floor of Lyman Stewart Hall at 558 So. Hope Street in Los Angeles. The Seminary collection is housed in an alcove off the main reading room of the Rose Memo rial Library on the La Mirada campus. Present holdings of the Biola Library include about 75,000 volumes and 500 current peri odicals with a total of 1,000 periodicals, including back runs. In auxiliary collections are to be found pamphlet files and a curricu lum and unit collection for the Education and the Christian Educa tion 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 similar materials. The main public catalog and other card files contain approximately 225,000 cards. Students also have access to the libraries of California State College at Fullerton, California State College at Long Beach, and Whittier College, as well as the city libraries of Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Whittier. All of these are within a short distance of Biola College.
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