6 GENERAL INFORMATION
suburban residential community with a population of 40,000. Included within the vicinity are several major shopping areas in addition to many other business establishments. La Mirada is situated near many of the outstanding attractions of Southern California. Downtown Los Angeles can be reached in a half-hour's drive from the campus. Disneyland is twelve miles to the southeast and famed Knott's Berry Farm is six miles away. Within an hour's drive are such popular beach cities as Long Beach, Newport Beach, Huntington Beach and Laguna Beach. Recreational facilities are easily accessible. An eight een-hole golf course lies a mile east of the campus and other parks in the area offer opportunity for activities and relaxation. An hour's drive will take one into the nearby mountains where winter sports are available. Cultural and research opportunities abound in the area. Several major universities and libraries are within easy driving distance of La Mirada including the University of California, Los Angeles; The University of Southern California; the University of California, Irvine; and several other state and private institutions. THE BIOLA UNIVERSITY CAMPUS The campus is bounded on the west by Biola Avenue and on the east by La Mirada Boulevard. It is located between the large east-we~t thoroughfares of Rosecrans Avenue and Imperial Highway. Approx imately three miles to the southwest is the Santa Ana Freeway (Freeway 1-5). Students coming to the campus by automobile should follow these directions: coming from the north west, leave the Santa Ana Freeway at Rosecrans and travel east to Biola Avenue; coming from the 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 (110), turn south on the Orange Freeway (57) to Imperial Highway and travel west on Imperial Highway to Biola Avenue. The campus now consists of 95 acres with over 1/2 million square feet of building space in 30 major build ings. Just under half of the space is dedicated to 7 student residence complexes, housing nearly 1,400 students in a fine variety of living quarters. The rest of the buildings house classrooms, laboratories, auditori ums, offices and student 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 gymnasium-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, an archery
range and tennis courts. Additional reci:;eation facilities are located in the 105-acre La Mirada Regional Park, just across La Mirada Boulevard from the Biola campus. In addition, Biola has recently completed a lease purchase agreement on 20 acres adjoining the main campus which formerly housed an intermediate 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 intramural program and for informal recreation. During the 1989/90 school year, several additions to the campus will be completed. A three-building resi dential complex will serve a variety of needs, from undergraduate housing in a residence hall to graduate and married housing in apartment-style living. The Student Union Building is being expanded, and the Bookstore is being replaced by a new, larger building. The entire campus will be affected by the installation of a new energy-efficient Central Plant for heating, cool ing, and cogeneration. It will allow several of our older classroom and residential buildings to be air condi tioned for the first time, and will provide the basis for a campus wide communication and computer network. THE LIBRARY The Biola University library is under a unified administration and serves the undergraduate and grad uate levels of Biola University. The periodical subscrip tions include 1,120 titles currently being received. Other holdings include over 200,000 volumes of books and bound periodicals. Auxiliary collections contain pamphlet files and curriculum teaching units for the education and Christian education departments. The main public catalog and other files contain approxi mately 750,000 cards. Copy machines are accessible to students. The library has microfiche, microfilm and microcard read ers. Audio-visual materials are available for student use from the Media Center. In addition, there are listening centers for language studies and other taped instruc tion at the Media Center. Students have access to the several million volumes in the libraries of a dozen colleges, universities and seminaries in the greater Los Angeles area. Students and faculty pave access to bibliographic search service through the data bases of CIASS, DIALOG and RUN. The staff consists of four professional librarians, nine full-time staff members and a number of part-time student assistants.
Our 95-acre campus is nestled in the city of La
Mirada, a quiet, conserva tive residential community 20 miles southeast ofLos Angeles. Disneyland, Knott's Be"y Farm and Southern California beaches and mountains are just miles away.
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