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2012-2013 Academic Catalog and Handbook

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 140,000 volumes of print books and periodicals and the Portland Center library houses 65,000 volumes. In addition, both libraries house audiovisual collections containing DVDs and other materials. Foxtrax, the university’s online library catalog, provides access to the physical collections of both libraries, and students at one site may request books from the other location. The catalog also connects users to over 118,000 electronic books. In addition, over 48,000 electronic journals and magazines, as well as hundreds of thousands of music and spoken word tracks, are available from both the Newberg and Portland Center libraries, from networked connections throughout both campuses, and remotely via our proxy server. Convenient access is available through the library’s home page.

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.

George Fox University is a member of the Orbis Cascade Alliance, a consortium of 37 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 28 million items. GFU students can also check out directly from other Orbis Cascade libraries when presenting their current GFU ID card.

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 are notified via e-mail as to how to retrieve such documents electronically as a pdf file. George Fox is also a member of OCLC, which provides access to thousands of libraries for interlibrary loan purposes.

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