The Library
One of the major assets of an academic-religious institution is its library. The Harding School of Bible and Religion has a growing, well-selected religious library including journals, facsimiles of the three major Biblical manuscripts, rare books and Bibles, a microfilm reader, and other valuable materials.
The library is housed in the air-conditioned School of Bible and Religion building with the classrooms, making it easily accessible to the students. A special substantial fund is allocated from year to year for the acquisition of well-selected religious books which will strengthen continually the library resources for the students.
In addition to the library of the School, students have access to the valuable private library of 11,000 volumes of Dr. W. B. West, Jr., Dean of the School. Students also have access to the Memphis public libraries, including the special reference and research Cossitt Library, which is part of the Memphis public library system, the library of Southwestern at Memphis, and the library of Memphis State University, and can borrow books from the 50,000 volume collection of the Harding College Library in Searcy, Arkansas.
—Harding College School of Bible and Religion General Information Bulletin 1958-1959 (Memphis: Harding College School of Bible and Religion, 1958) 10.
At this early point, no librarian is listed in the bulletin.
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