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The library houses over 120,000 titles and subscribes to 260 periodicals. A
substantial collection of works on Reformed theology is augmented by an
excellent collection of materials in biblical studies
and church history. Of special note are the microfilm editions of titles in
Evans's American Bibliography and Migne's Patrologiae (Greek and Latin Fathers),
Corpus Reformatorum (all the works of Calvin) and numerous 16th and 17th century
Puritan texts.
The reference and periodical rooms are spacious and well-lit, ideal for study
and reflection. In the open stack area, individual study carrels line windows
that overlook the valley. Through membership in the Statewide California
Electronic Library Consortium, the library affords unlimited online searching of
Online Computer Library Center’s (OCLC) large book database along with nearly
seventy other discipline-specific periodical databases through OCLC’s
FirstSearch service (thirty-nine of these databases contain full-text documents
that can be read online or printed).
The library also has online access to the premier religion and theological
periodical database, ATLA, the full-text religion database in Proquest, indexing
and abstracting of religion periodicals in Religious and Theological Abstracts,
and the full text of seminal works from the Reformation and Post-Reformation
eras through the Digital Library of Classical Protestant Texts.
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