Cultural Objectives: The College seeks to provide students with a wholesome cultural program which will inculcate an appreciation for the finer things of life as expressed in the fine arts, literature, history, and the civilizations of peoples and nations both past and present. The College seeks to provide the students with a well-rounded social program that will develop personality and fit them in a normal and whole some manner to take their places in the home, local church, and community. The program is further designed to develop and maintain high moral standards in the lives of the students, for their own benefit and in order that they might serve as wholesome examples and leaders wherever they may live and work. Social Objectives: Spiritual Objectives: 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. The College seeks to provide thorough preparatory train ing in those areas of its curriculum in which students may desire to pursue 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. Vocational Objectives:
BOOK STORE Biola College maintains a book store where text books, paper backs, school sup plies, Christian recordings, visual aid materials, and other items may be pur chased.
THE LIBRARY The Biola Library is under a unified administration and serves Biola College and Talbot Theological Seminary. It is housed in the Rose Memorial Library Building. Present holdings include over 90,000 volumes of books and bound periodicals. Periodical holdings include 715 titles currently and 7,900 volumes of back numbers. Auxiliary collections contain pamphlet files and a curriculum and unit collection for the Education and Christian Education Departments. A number of special indexes provide access to volumes 1-60 of The King's Business magazine and to partial runs of other periodicals, to songs and hymns, e:ermone: and sermon outlines, and homiletic and poetic illustrations. The main public catalog and other files con tain approximately 280,000 cards. A Xerox 720 and an SCM copy machine an~ accessible to students . The Library has microfilm and microcard readers, as well as tape recorders and record playerf'. A variety of audio-visual materials are available for student use . 18
Made with FlippingBook flipbook maker