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 School of Missionary Medicine and Talbot Theological Seminary. The School of Missionary Medicine collection is housed on the ninth floor of the 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 Memorial Library on the La Mirada campus. Present holdings include about 38,800 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 and the Christian Edu.cation Departments, an audio-visual center in which are flat pictures, flannelgraph materials, slides, object l essons, a story fil e, 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 material$. The n:iain public catalog and other card fil es contain in all approximately 155,000 card-$.· Students also have access to the libraries of Long Beach and Long B_each State College, and Whittier and Whittier College, all within a short distance of the library. Graduate students have access to all the scholarly librari<is of the area, which contain several million volumes. · " The staff consists of the Librarian, two professional Assistc!nts, three full-time non-professional Assistants, and several part-time student assist ants. 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. The facilities oft;ered by the n ew Rose M emorial Library building will be increasingly appreciated as students and faculty become familiar with them. · AUDIO-VISUAL DEPARTMENT The audio-visual equipment and services of Biola College are under the administration of the Library . Standard equipment of recent manufacture is available for u se in the classrooms and to a limited ext ent for Christian service assignments. The collection of materials includes slid~s, filmstrips 1 tapes, flat pictures, flannelgraph materials, obj ect lessons, globes, and maps.' Equipment includes motion picture projectors, slide and filmstrip projectors, record players, tape recorders, overhead and opaque projectors, and screens. Motion pictures are rented, but slides and filmstrips purchased. All depart ments of the College are served and special collections are being ,issembled in the Education and Christian Education Curriculum Departments of the Library. Listening facilities for disc records are available in the audio.-. visual department of the library building. SUMMER SESSION . Courses in the Nursing Education program are offered in the summer. All other courses are offered only upon sufficient demand. In Summer Ses sions members of the regular faculty serve as instructors. Regular academic entrance requirements apply to those who enroll during the summer. Fgr further information write to the Director of Admissions. 15
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