GENERAL INFORMATION
with a total of 750 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 similar materials. The main public catalog and other card files contain in all approximately 200,000 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 distance of the library. Graduate students have access to all the scholarly libraries of the area, which con tain several million volumes. The staff consists of three librarians, three 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. Standard equipment makes the library an attractive place to study and browse. AUDIO-VISUAL DEPARTMENT The College has an Audio-Visual Director who handles the equipment arid services of the program. The Library is responsibl e 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 recordings , etc. A few small slide and film strip projectors and a screen are available for circulation.
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