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===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>{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Shawn |title=LibGuides: Library Areas of Interest: Home |url=https://libguides.bju.edu/c.php?g=27181&p=167216 |access-date=2025-03-26 |website=libguides.bju.edu |language=en}}</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>
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