tics; 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 recreational 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 10 acres of athletic fields available for Biola's extensive intramural program and for informal recreation. THE LIBRARY The Biola University Library is under a unified administration and serves the undergraduate and graduate levels of Biola Uni versity. The periodical subscriptions include 1,052 titles current ly being received. Other holdings include over 165,000 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 approximately 750 ,000 cards . Two copy machines are accessible to students. The library has microfiche, microfilm and rri.icrocard readers. Audio-visual 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 Media Center. Students have access to the several million volumes in the librar ies of a dozen colleges, universities and seminaries in the greater Los Angeles area. Students and faculty have access to bibliographic search service through the data bases of CLASS , DIALOG and RUN . The staff consists of four professional librarians, nine full-time assistants and a number of part-time student assistants. MEDIA CENTER The Media Center services the equipment and non-book instruc tional needs of the university. Equipment and instructional mate rials are located on the McNally portion of the campus . The collection of material includes 16mm and 8mm motion pictures and film clips, 35mm filmstrips , audio tape recordings, video tape recorctings, disc records, overhead transparencies , slides and other types of educational material. Appropriate equipment is available for large group, small group or individual study of the instructional materials. Production of slides, filmstrips , thermal or diazo transparencies as well as many other services are available to the faculty upon request. BOOKSTORE The University Bookstore is open six days and tw0 evenings a week to supply all required textbooks as well as non-required books. Students will find a large selection 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.
ductors' Guild (California); Christian Camping International; Christian College Coalition; Christian Scholar's Review; Col lege Entrance Examination Board; Council on Post-secondary Accreditation; Evangelical Teacher Training Association; In tercollegiate Press; Music Educators' National Conference; National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics; Western Association of Graduate Schools; Western Council on Higher Education for Nursing; and Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. 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 commu nity 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 eighteen-hole public 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 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 Biol a Avenue and on the east by La Mirada Boulevard. It is located between the large east-west thoroughfares of Rosecrans Avenue and Imperial High way. Approximately 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 northwest, 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 (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 over ½ million square feet of building space in 30 major buildings. Just under half of that space is dedicated to 7 student residence complexes, housing nearly 1400 students in a fine variety of living quarters. The rest of the buildings house classrooms, laboratories, auditoriums, offices and student services. Highlights of these buildings include Soubirou Hall, a newly remodeled 9,500 square foot building 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 acous-
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