1987-1988 Academic Catalog

Library The new 66,000 square feet, two-floor library, the cornerstone of the College's 1987 Centennial celebration, brings together in one structure the latest technologies for higher learning. Located on a prominent site within the academic cluster of buildings, this facility provides study areas for nearly 900 students and the necessary information storage and retrieval support functions necessary for continued quality academic program development. Designed to house a collection of up to a quarter of a million volumes, the library also contains a faculty development center, the archives of the College, a variety of seminar and group The Campus 17 study rooms, and the media resource center which includes a media production center, a video studio, a rare, SONY language/learning laboratory, (one of 22 in the country), media– supported classrooms, and the curriculum materials center. The library presently houses over l l 0,000 volumes and provides over 900 current periodicals. Through an on-line computer network, OCLC, Inc., the library has access to over twenty-five million additional books and other library materials in over 6,000 libraries in all fifty states, Canada, and several foreign countries.