Mabee Library

Named following the generous financial support of the Mabee Foundation in Tulsa, Okla., this academic hub for the campus was dedicated in September 1985 and is MidAmerica's largest facility. It houses a microcomputer lab open to all students and faculty complete with Internet access, the Maurine Dickerson Technical Processing Area with five staff offices, the Marge Smith archives, the Ministry Resource Center, an a

udio-visual room, and the Teacher Education Resource Center.

Mabee Library contains over 250,000 volumes, 150,000 in microforms and the balance in bound volumes. It also features a totally computerized card catalog and circulation system. ProQuest, a sophisticated periodical retrieval system, provides citations to over 2,400 periodicals, and Mabee Library participates in interlibrary loan with other Kansas libraries. It is designed to seat 350 students. It contains one classroom, 82 individual study carrels, 12 rooms for group work, a rare book room, and a typing room. The Mabee Library staff provides reference assistance, bibliographic instruction to classes and CD-ROM searches to both faculty and staff.

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