5 GENERAL INFORMATION
southeast, .leave the Santa Ana Freeway at Valley View and travel north to Rosecrans, then turn right to Biola Avenue, coming from the east via San Bernardino Freeway (10) turn south on the Orange Freeway (57) to Imperial Highway and travel west on Imperial Highway to Biola Avenue . (Note: See inside cover map.) The campus now consists of 95 acres with 700,000 square feet of building space in 30 major buildings. Just under half of the space is dedicated to 7 student residence complexes, housing nearly 1,500 students in a fine variety of living quarters. The rest of the buildings house classrooms, laboratories, auditoriums, offices and students services. Highlights of the buildings include Soubirou Hall, containing specialized classrooms for nursing instruction, along with nursing department faculty offices; Lansing Auditorium, a 450-seat concert hall with a fine pipe organ and excellent acoustics; the Rose of Sharon Chapel., a small chapel exclusively reserved for silent prayer and meditation; and a gym nasium-swimming complex with a short-course Olympic pool. On the eastern side of the campus lie the athletic fields. Included are a crushed brick quarter-mile track, an excellent baseball diamond, a soccer field, and tennis courts. Additional recreation facilities are located in the 105-acre La Mirada Regional Park, just across La Mirada Boulevard from the Biola campus. In addition, Biola now owns 20 acres adjoining the main campus which formerly housed an interme diate school. This land includes 58,000 square feet of classroom and office buildings, and over 10 acres of athletic fields available for Biola's extensive intra mural program and for informal recreation . During the 1989/90 school year, several additions to the campus were completed. A three-building res idential complex serves a variety of needs, from undergraduate housing in a residence hall to gradu ate and married housing in apartment-style living. The Student Union Building has been expanded, and the Bookstore has been replaced by a new, larg er building. A new energy-efficient Central Plant for heating, cooling, and cogeneration is now complete. The plant provides a cost efficient means of air con ditioning our older classrooms and residential build ings for the first time. THE LIBRARY The Rose Memorial Library serves Biola University as the central library facility on campus, supporting the needs of all the undergraduate and graduate programs with extensive resources and a wide variety of services. In addition to more than 210,000 books, the library currently subscribes to more than 1,170 peri odical titles, with a number of bound journal back files dating from the nineteenth century. Special holdings reflect Biola's enthusiasm and scholarly
interest in Bible history and translation, the histori cal roots of fundamentalism and evangelical Christianity, and the worldwide witness of Christian m1ss1ons. Auxiliary collections embrace extensive micro form resources; many reference resources in Braille; comprehensive pamphlet files including maps, charts, mission resources, and a wide variety of topics in the liberal arts; and special holdings of text and curriculum resources appropriate to teacher education. To facilitate study and the use of library resources, the Rose Memorial Library provides access to its holdings by SCROLL, the on-line public access catalog and circulation system, and an increasing number of CD-ROM index databases availab le for patron searching. These initial steps in library automation reflect the University's commit ment to providing quality service and expanding resources through the electronic exchange of ideas. In addition, copy machines, rental typewriters, microform readers and reader-printers facilitate resource use. Study tables and individual carrels can accommodate approximately 400 patrons at any one time. Library services offer trained reference help at all times, with special effort made to relate students and faculty to other important library resources of the southern California area, the nation and throughout the world. Reciprocal borrowing privileges are avail able for undergraduate and graduate students to access the impressive resources at California State University at Fullerton. Traditional interlibrary loan services are available. In-house and network com puter services help Biola scholars to access the inter national bibliographical databases through OCLC and DIALOG. Five professional librarians, supported by a well qualified paraprofessional staff and many student assistants, comprise a library work force dedicated to service more than 67 hours per week during the regular semester with adjusted schedules of service available year round. MEDIA CENTER The Media Center services the equipment and non-book instruction needs of the University. Equipment and instructional materials are located on the McNally portion of the campus. The collec tion of material includes motion pictures and film clips, filmstrips, audio tape recordings, video tape recordings, disc records, overhead transparencies, slides and other types of educational material. Appropriate equipment is avai lable for large group, smal l group or individual study of the instructional materials. Production of slides, filmstrips, thermal or diazo transparencies as well as many other services are avai lable to the faculty upon request.
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