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University Libraries

The library facilities offer reading rooms, individual study carrels, and student conference rooms. Total volumes number approximately 12,000, and for current reference 11,000 journal, periodical, or magazine holdings compromise the collection in three languages including Korean, Chinese and English. In addition, the SBU libraries and research center provides online health data bases. Several subscribed data bases from EBSCO have been acquired.

The Alternative Health package through this organization opens unique pathways to the subjects of acupuncture and herbology through journals, periodicals, and research orientated materials. The data bases known as Evidence-Based Complementary Medicine and Alternative Health Watch provide further focus on aspects of Oriental Medicine along with other contemporary alternative healing arts. Other resources in greater depth may be found in MedLine allowing full text access to many specialized academic studies with more than 70 western and oriental medicine journals. Regularly enrolled students may access computer information off site via an access code.

Library Hours

Anaheim Library

Los Angeles Library

University Research Library

Library Website

We invite you to visit the SBU Library home page at http://www.southbaylo.edu/lib/ where you will find links to the General Library Information, Library Holdings, eBook Online, Online Databases, Internet Search Tools, Student Resource Center, and other valuable library resources.

Assistance

The SBU Library staff welcomes your questions. We are here to assist you in using library materials and facilities. They can also answer questions about how to document your sources using the MLA format. For assistance with circulation and overdue books call (714) 533-1495 Ext. 240



Finding Books

Library Classification

The two systems of library classification, which in truth are coordinated, utilized by the South Baylo University Libraries consist of the Library of Congress and the National Library of Medicine cataloging schemes. The Library of Congress classifications are followed with materials not related to medicine, and the National Library of Medicine system is utilized for those sciences designated "premedicine" and the practice of medicine proper. An expanded explanation follows.

Library of Congress

National Library of Medicine Classification

The National Library of Medicine Classification is placed on top of, or above, the Library of Congress Classification representing a more detailed application of medical practice. The following table projects the application of this classification to the South Baylo University Libraries:


Preclinical Sciences

Medicine and Related Subjects

With these new state of the art library classifications, the South Baylo University Libraries are not only coordinated with institutions of higher learning though out the United States, but the results of the reclassification endeavor will allow for future expansion into the international venue of the healing arts.


Library Policy

Circulation Policy

The circulation policy for the check out of instructional materials is structured to assist individual requirements for those doing in depth study or research, and also maintain a viable core book and journal collection for library patrons utilizing any of the on site facilities from which library materials may be checked out or conversely returned at any location.


Book Checkout

General volumes have a two week circulation with one renewal possible. The maximum number of books checked out is limited for four volumes at a time to any individual. Journals, periodicals, monographs, and similar date sensitive publications are not circulated but may be copies or utilized in the respective libraries. It is expected that the library materials circulated will be returned on the date due; however, late books are assessed a $1.00 per day fine for every day missing from the book collection after a three day grace period during which time no fine is charged. All fines must be cleared before the subsequent checkout of additional library materials.


Reference Books

Reference titles and volume sets are shelved in a discrete section of the library. Reference materials do not circulate from the university libraries and usage is restricted to the library reading rooms. Encyclopedias, dictionaries, telephone books, handbooks, and manuals are examples of this genre of library titles.


Reserve Book Collection

For special instructional programs and with unique book titles integral to the study of acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in the professional curriculum, additional reserve shelving is maintained near the library circulation desk. These materials have been acquired under the stipulation that such a collection be presented and held for student library usage only in the university libraries. Thus, these volumes are not checked out for circulation beyond the library facility.


Language/Color Code Classification

Books are shelved alphabetically by first letter of the first line of the call number. Library volumes are shelved in classification order as subsequently explained. The vast majority of library books are all shelved together in what is sometimes called the general or main book collection. Insofar as the South Baylo University Libraries hold materials written in English, Chinese, or Korean, a color above the book call number allows for identification of these unique attributes of such specialized holdings.


Instructional Materials

Video tapes, CD Rom, slides, and similar instructional materials are not available for student circulation. However, faculty members may check out such holdings along with slide projects, LCD projectors, TV monitors, and VCR equipment for classroom presentations and usage. It is a goal of the university libraries to ultimately have all such equipment permanently in the classroom to avoid complications of circulation plus reduce the damage to equipment in transit. Such an accomplishment would release more of these instructional materials for direct student usage in the library; thus, a TV monitor is located adjoining the library reading room for students to view video tapes and other software appropriate to classroom assignments. Various anatomical models are held in the library proper, but other such holdings have been directly remanded to the classrooms for optimum usage. Other specimens relevant to the study of the healing arts are maintained.


Computer Access

The University Library at Anaheim has 7 computers limited to the catalog of books and instructional materials in the library facility. The availability of such computers for patron usage will allow access to the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, and similar data bases. However, a computer room on the second floor of the Anaheim main campus will accommodate further internet research. In the University Library at Los Angeles, ten computers are available on tables just in front of the book stacks. Most of this computer equipment provides direct access to the internet and significant data bases. Word processing, e-mails, internet research are available on the computer lab where more than 17 computers are accessible for students.


Copy Service

It is possible to reproduce library and other materials in several ways. A copy is for $5. The university libraries expend every effort to maximize the availability of all instructional resources.


Group Study

Group study conference rooms are available for study group purpose.


Interlibrary System

The cooperative library program with Biola University provides South Baylo students and faculty with enhanced computer access and expanded research capability.


Library Orientation

To promote computer utilization in all university libraries and the further expand the library mission in contemporary computer technology, a library orientation power point program is conducted each quarter for the incoming class. Also, the library director or deputy director meet the incoming class on the first day of the quarter at the general university orientation program. A considerable number of the incoming students exhibit extraordinary computer skills and internet knowledge. Thus, this orientation program basically serves to afford those new to the university libraries an exposure and overview of available resources for learning and research.


University Research Library

A basic core library collection is maintained at the Research Center within the Euclid Avenue Clinic facility located a short distance from the Anaheim Main Campus. This research venue is under development for doctoral research, and the library collection has been planned and formulated accordingly. Key reference materials that are immediately needed for operational efficiency have been transferred from the Anaheim library collection.

Future library planning includes the enhancement of library research materials for this facility. The University Research Library will emphasize access to data bases for information that will further develop and enhance the acupuncture profession as a primary health care provider.


From the Librarians

On behalf of all the library staff, it is a distinct pleasure to welcome students, alumni, faculty, practitioners, and research scholars to the university libraries. The hope of all of us is that library patrons and casual users alike will find a quiet, peaceful, and useful place in the reading rooms, conference rooms, and study carrels for study, reflection, contemplation, and repose in the pursuit of knowledge.

Learning in all healing arts has expanded in an exponential pace. No library can possibly contain this infinite knowledge. However, the ultimate outcome of research and reflection is to develop a methodology in the quest for further knowledge. If exposure to the procedure of learning and analysis can individually transpire, then the mission of the university libraries has been accomplished.

Our most cordial welcome is extended with the desire that through learning and research the acupuncture profession will take its rightful place among primary health care providers for the enhancement of healing in the community.