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Music Library
MUSIC LIBRARY
The BJU Music Library is located on the first floor of the speech wing of the Gustafson Fine Arts Center. This location was incorporated into the renovation and construction of the Fine Arts Center in 1999 and increased the Music Library’s space to over 3,500 square feet. The new library facilities incorporate modern technology and listening equipment.
Resources available in the Music Library include books, scores, audio recordings, periodicals, and reference materials. Currently, the collection includes 7,299 volumes, 14,283 scores and sheet music, 5,913 CDs, 687 DVDs, 24 BluRays, 65 online periodicals and 10 print periodical subscriptions. Additionally, students and faculty have online access to the Classical Music Library (1,266,000 tracks) and the Classical Scores Library (51,222 scores / 1,119,580 printable pages), both databases from Alexander Street Press. Listening stations and computers accommodate patrons researching musical works.
Reserve
Course Reserves
A professor may place outside readings or personal books on reserve for a class to read.
Policies
- Reserve items have a 2-hour checkout.
- Most may be checked out overnight within 2 hours of closing.
Learn more about Course Reserves
Search Course Reserves by selecting this scope when entering your search in the Indy catalog. Enter a professor name, course number, or a specific book. In this example we are searching for books on reserve for EN 102. Try it now in BJU’s Indy catalog.
Computer Labs
Computer Labs
Computer Science Department
The Computer Science department uses two Library labs for classes and projects. They are located on the second floor. The labs provide both standard industry hardware and software and cutting-edge technology.
Public Use
There are two public labs on the second floor. On second floor there are 8 computers for general use. Students often use them to quickly print papers before class. Visitors and community customers may use the internet workstations by signing in at the circulation desk and having a staff member log on to a computer.
BJU Archives
BJU Archives
Mission Statement
The mission of the Bob Jones University Archives is to serve as a repository of institutional memory by collecting, preserving, and making accessible documents that illustrate, primarily, the history and heritage of the University and, secondarily, that of the Fundamentalist movement.
Activities
The Bob Jones University Archives collects, preserves, and makes available for research historical material about BJU and the Jones family, including University publications, oral histories, and sermon transcripts. Some of its holdings are discoverable via the Mack Library catalog, under Archives Reference Database.
These files are available online:
The BJU Archives welcomes donations relevant to the history of Bob Jones University. To learn more about current holdings, and to make appointments to view them, contact Patrick Robbins, probbins@bju.edu.
Special Collections
Special Collections
Special Collections provides physical protection for old, fragile, and historically valuable materials, including a handwritten sermon outline by Charles Spurgeon and an early 14th century manuscript copy of Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum by Martin of Opava (d. 1278). Special Collections also holds the American Hymnody Collection of almost a thousand hymnals from the colonial period to the present.
American Hymnody Collection
The American Hymnody Collection includes nearly a thousand hymnals from the colonial period to the present, hymnals that were either published in North America or were published abroad and brought to the United States by immigrants.
The collection originated in 1995 when members of the music faculty suggested that a recent University purchase of older hymnals might serve as the nucleus of a collection that would help preserve one aspect of Christian history while also serving as a resource for the BJU family and visiting scholars.
A chronological list of the hymnals currently held in the Special Collections Reading Room is accessible below.
Fundamentalism File
The Fundamentalism File is a reference resource of over 100,000 paper items (c. 180 cubic feet), cataloged under 5,000 subject headings, that contains not only material related to the history of Fundamentalism but also information about topics that were of special interest to fundamentalists during the late 20th and early 21st centuries, such as abortion, divorce, church planting, postmodernism, homosexuality, capital punishment, the Charismatic movement, contemporary Christian music, separation of church and state, and tax exemption for religious organizations.
Some articles in the collection were gleaned from mainstream publications, others from more obscure religious periodicals and newsletters of limited circulation. The File also collected ephemera, such as brochures, meeting advertisements, and statements of faith.
The second president of BJU, Dr. Bob Jones Jr. (1911-1997), created the Fundamentalism File in 1978, anticipating that it would record the “history of religion in our times,” cover “all aspects of the Fundamental position and those who oppose it,” and provide “resource material that somebody 50 years from now, if the Lord tarries, can use in doing an article on the present struggle of our day.”
In addition to the collection per se, the Fundamentalism File also holds similar materials collected by three notable, late 20th-century fundamentalists:
- G. Archer Weniger (1915-1982), a California pastor and seminary president who published his own newsletter, The Blu-Print, and who was a significant influence in the Conservative Baptist Association and then the Fundamental Baptist Fellowship,
- W. O. H. Garman (1899-1983), an advocate for fundamentalists in the military chaplaincy, and
- Gilbert Stenholm (1915-1989), a long-time administrator at Bob Jones University.
Another collection, more recently donated to BJU and as yet uncatalogued, is the extensive research collection of Robert Sumner (1922-2016), Baptist author and editor of The Biblical Evangelist.
Bob Jones Jr. died in 1997 as the internet began to make paper materials less critical to the study of contemporary religion than had been the case twenty years before. The last formal additions to the Fundamentalism File were made in May 2014, when the University ceased funding a staff.
Nevertheless, the Fundamentalism File still occupies the physical location where it was moved during the summer of 2000, and its holdings continue to be valuable for students of late 20th century religion. The Fundamentalism File can be searched through the BJU library catalog. Further information about its contents may be obtained from Patrick Robbins, probbins@bju.edu.
Information Services
REFERENCE/INFORMATION SERVICES
The reference collection contains resources (i.e., encyclopedias, atlases, etc.) that provide basic information in various areas and are only available for use in the Mack Library.
An information services librarian or trained associate is available to assist patrons with finding answers to questions, finding sources, or research in general in both print and electronic resources.
These associates are available during business hours at the Information Services counter at the Circulation Desk.
Contact Reference
Books
Books
Mack Library offers access to more than 250,000 physical books and nearly as many electronic books. The physical collection is especially strong in religion and theology (classified in the 200s). In addition to extensive academic resources, Mack Library also offers a selection of adult and juvenile fiction.
The non-fiction segment of the collection is organized using the Dewey Decimal Classification. Biography, Fiction, Textbooks, and Juvenile are organized separately.
Where do I find my book?
First Floor
- 000-200
- Reference
- Periodicals
Second Floor
- 300-900
- Biography
- Fiction
- Textbooks
- Juvenile
Dewey Decimal System
| 000 | Generalities |
| 100 | Philosophy |
| 200 | Religion |
| 300 | Social Sciences |
| 400 | Languages |
| 500 | Pure Sciences |
| 600 | Applied Sciences & Technology |
| 700 | Arts |
| 800 | Literature |
| 900 | History & Geography |
Alumni Resources
ALUMNI RESOURCES
Come Visit!
If you’re local, feel free to use our collection for your reading or research needs.
Stay Informed
As a professional, you may still need academic resources. Try these alumni-specific databases.
- Academic Search Alumni Edition (EBSCO)
- Designed for the research needs of the post-college professional, this database provides full text for nearly 2,400 journals as well as indexing and abstracting for more than 7,370 journals. Academic Search™ Alumni Edition offers information in nearly every area of academic study including biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, and more. Academic Search Alumni Edition also includes valuable peer-reviewed full text journals, offering critical information from many sources.
- Business Source Alumni Edition (EBSCO)
- Designed for the research needs of the post-college professional, this database provides nearly 1,350 full-text business magazines and journals, of which over 650 are peer-reviewed. Business Source® Alumni Edition includes publications in nearly every area of business including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, econometrics, economics and more. Business Source Alumni Edition includes full-text sources ranging from general periodicals to trade publications and top management journals. Additional full-text sources include country economic reports, industry reports, market research reports, company profiles and more.
Feeling Nostalgic?
Try out the BJU Digital Archives, a collection of photos and publications throughout University history.