Bob Jones University Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Library=== [[File:JerusalemChamberBJU.JPG|thumb|right|Jerusalem Chamber, Mack Library, containing a collection of rare Bibles]] The {{convert|90000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} Mack Library (named for [[John Sephus Mack]]) holds a collection of more than 300,000 books and includes seating for 1,200 as well as a computer lab and a computer classroom.<ref>{{cite book|last=Turner|first=Daniel|title=Standing Without Apology: The History of Bob Jones University|page=434}}</ref> (Its ancillary, a music library, is included in the Gustafson Fine Arts Center.) Mack Library's Special Collections includes an American [[Hymnody]] Collection of about 700 titles.<ref>[http://libguides.bju.edu/content.php?pid=208773&sid=1739649 American Hymnody Collection].</ref> The "Jerusalem Chamber" is a replica of the room in [[Westminster Abbey]] in which work on the [[King James Version]] of the Bible was conducted, and it displays a collection of rare Bibles.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://libguides.bju.edu/content.php?pid=208773&sid=1739649|title=Home β Library Areas of Interest β LibGuides at Bob Jones University|work=bju.edu|access-date=June 14, 2015}}</ref> An adjoining Memorabilia Room commemorates the life of [[Bob Jones Sr.]] and the history of the university.<ref>[http://www.bju.edu/library/collections/archives.html J.S. Mack Library β Archives]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101221103922/http://www.bju.edu/library/collections/archives.html |date=December 21, 2010 }}</ref> The library's Fundamentalism File collects periodical articles and ephemera about social and religious matters of interest to evangelicals and fundamentalists.<ref>The Fundamentalism File, created in 1978, has more than 100,000 non-book items, mostly articles listed under 5,000 subject headings; it also contains the papers of three notable 20th-century fundamentalists: G. Archer Weniger (1915β1982), W. O. H. Garman (1899β1983), and Gilbert Stenholm (1915β1989). [http://libguides.bju.edu/ffile BJU Library website, Fundamentalism File, Introduction to the File]</ref> The University Archives holds copies of all university publications, [[oral histories]] of faculty and staff members, surviving remnants of university correspondence, and pictures and artifacts related to the Jones family and the history of the university.<ref>[http://libguides.bju.edu/content.php?pid=208607&sid=1738606 BJU Archives Research]. For instance, the archives hold decades of working scripts for university stage performances.</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page