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Libraries

Murdock Learning Resource Center (Newberg) and Portland Center Library (Tigard)

George Fox University maintains libraries at both the Newberg and Portland Center campuses. The Murdock Learning Resource Center (MLRC) is a three-story, 35,000-square-foot building serving the Newberg campus from a central location. The MLRC houses 136,000 print volumes and receives nearly 900 periodical titles. In addition, thousands of full-text periodicals are also available online from both the Newberg campus and the Portland Center, and off campus through a proxy server. The MLRC has several special collections, including the Quaker Collection of basic Quaker books, pamphlets, and periodicals. The archives of Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church and of George Fox University, dating from the 1880s, are preserved in a special room. The Hoover Collection contains materials written about President Herbert Hoover and his administration. The Peace Collection contains books and periodicals pertaining to conflict resolution and international peacekeeping.

The Portland Center library houses 67,000 print volumes and receives more than 300 periodicals. The collection is especially strong in religion and counseling. Also located in the Portland Center library are the archives of George Fox Evangelical Seminary.

The university's online library catalog provides access to the holdings of both the Murdock Learning Resource Center and the Portland Center library. Students at one site may request books from the other location through the catalog. George Fox is a member of the Orbis Cascade Alliance, a consortium of 34 academic libraries in Oregon and Washington. Through "Summit Borrowing," students may conveniently request books and other materials from the consortium's union catalog of more than 27 million items. GFU students can also check out directly from any other Orbis Cascade library when presenting their current GFU ID card.

Many licensed indexing/abstracting services and full text journals are made available by the library via the Internet. Journal articles not available through the library may be requested through interlibrary loan. Normally articles are scanned and sent to GFU electronically from other libraries. Users requesting articles will be notified via e-mail as to how to retrieve such documents electronically as a pdf file. George Fox is a member of OCLC, which provides access to thousands of libraries for interlibrary loan purposes.