The Community of La Mirada The city of La Mirada is in Los Angeles County, twenty-two miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, and is surrounded by such cities as Whittier, Norwalk, Buena Park, La Habra and Fullerton. La Mirada is a suburban residential community with a population of 40,000 Included within the vicinity are several major shopping areas in addition to many other business establish ments. La Mirada is situated near many of the outstanding attractions of Southern Cali fornia. Downtown Los Angeles can be reached in a hal f-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 accessi ble. An eighteen-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 win ter sports are available. Cultural and research opportunities abound in the area. Several major universi ties and libraries are within easy driving distance of La Mirada including the Univer sity of California, Los Angeles, the Univer sity 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-west thoroughfares of Rosecrans Ave nue and Imperial Highway. Approximately three miles to the southwest is the Santa Ana Freeway, (Freeway 1-5). Students coming to the campus by auto mobile should follow these directions: coming from the northwest leave the San ta 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,
American Associat ion of Bible Colleges, The American Psychological Association, the Associat ion of Theological Schools, the National Association of Schools of Music, the State of California Board of Registered Nursing, the National League for Nursing, the California Commission for Teacher Preparation and Licensing and the Associ ation of Christian Schools, International. Biola University is authorized to train students under the Veteran's Bi ll of Rights In addition, the college is affiliated with a number of professional organizations, of which the following are representative: American Anthropological Association; American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education; American Associ ation of Collegiate Registrars and Ad mission Officers; American Association of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation; American Camping Associ ation; American Council on Education; American Gui ld of Organists; American Intercollegiate Athletic Women; Ameri can Library Association; Associated Collegiate Press; Association of College Unions International; American Associ ation of Higher Education; Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities; California Association of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation; California Council on the Education of Teachers; Choral Conduc tors' Guild (California); Christian Camp ing International; Christian College Co alition; Christian Scholar's Review; Col lege Entrance Examination Board; Council on Post-secondary Accredita tion ; Evangelical Teacher Training Asso ciation; Intercollegiate Press; Music Edu cators' National Conference; National Associat ion of Intercollegiate Athletics; Western Association of Graduate Schools; Western Council on H igher Education for Nursing; and Western In terstate Commission for Higher Educa tion.
then turn right to Biola Avenue; coming from the east via San Bernardino F1·eeway ( I0) 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 over 1/2 million square feet of build ing space in 30 ma1or bu ildings. Just under half of the space is dedicated to 7 student residence complexes, housing nearly 1400 students in a fine variety of livi ng quarters. The rest of the buildings house classrooms, laboratories, auditoriums, offices and stu dent services. Highl ights of the buildings in clude Soubirou Hall, a newly remodeled 9,500 square foot building containing spe cialized classrooms for nursing instruct ion, along with nursing department faculty of fices; Lansing Auditorium, a 450-seat con cert hall with a fine pipe organ and excel lent acoustics; the Rose of Sharon Chapel, a small chapel excl usively reserved for si lent prayer and meditation; and a gymnasi um-swimming complex with a short rnurse olympic pool. On the eastern side of the campus lie the athletic fields. Included are a crushed brick quarter-mile track, an excellent base ball diamond. a soccer field, and archery range 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 has a long term lease on 20 acres adjoining the main campus which formerly housed an intermediate school. This land includes 58,000 square feet of classrooms and office buildings, and over IO acres of athletic fields avai lable for Biola's extensive intramural program and for informal recreation. The Library The Biola University Library is under a unified administration and serves the un dergraduate and graduate levels of Biola University. The periodical subscriptions in clude 1,052 titles currently being received. Other holdings include over 165,000 vol umes of books and bound periodicals.
Auxiliary collections contain pamphlet files and curriculum teaching units for the edu cation and Christian education depart ments. The main public catalog and other files contain approximately 750,000 cards. Two copy machines are accessible to students. The library has microfiche, mi crofilm and microcard readers. Audio-vi sual materials are available for student use from the Media Center. In addition, there are listening centers for language studies and other taped instruction at the Med ia Center. Students have access to the several mil lion volumes in the libraries of a dozen col leges, universities and seminaries in the greater Los Angeles area. Students and faculty have access to bib liographic search service through the data bases of CLASS, DIALOG and RLIN. The staff consists of four professional li brarians, nine full-time ass istants and a number of part-time student assistants. Media Center The Media Center services the equip ment and non-book instruction needs of the university. Equipment and instructional materials are located on the McNally por tion of the campus. The collection of ma terial includes 16mm and 8mm motion pic tures and film clips, 35mm filmstrips, audio tape recordings, video tape recordings, disc records, overhead transparencies, slides and other types of educational mate rial. Appropriate equipment is available for large group, small group or ind ividual study of the instructional materials. Product ion of sl ides, filmstrips, thermal or diazo transparencies as well as many other services are available to the facu lty upon request Bookstore The University Bookstore is open six days and two evenings a week to supply all required textbooks as well as non-re quired books. Students will find a large se lection of cards, stationery, gift items, records and music, school and art supplies, plus items for personal needs. Bibles in a variety of styles and bindings are available.
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