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Completed during the fall of 2004, the new St. John the Evangelist Library, named in honor of Our Lord’s “beloved disciple,” is the hub of the educational resources for Christendom College. The Library has a high quality collection of over 60,000 volumes which is specifically designed to support the Catholic liberal arts curriculum of the undergraduate College, as well as the theological, philosophical and catechetical studies of the Notre Dame Graduate School and faculty research. The Library facilities and services at both the undergraduate and graduate campuses of Christendom College exist to support a Catholic liberal arts education and a graduate level curriculum in the field of theological studies. The Libraries serve and support the intellectual and spiritual formation of the students, faculty, administration, and staff of both the primarily residential undergraduate community and the primarily commuter graduate student body. With this in mind, the Libraries aim to provide an uplifting atmosphere and excellent instructional, reference, and collection access–local and cooperative–services to the constituencies of Christendom College. The Reference Collection is located on the Main Level, and it contains general and specialized dictionaries, handbooks, maps and other resources which aid students in their studies and research, including, for example, such important sources as
The main and gallery levels house numerous individual study carrels and the monograph collections supporting the academic needs of the various fields taught at Christendom College. These levels also offer four small group study areas, and one larger, enclosed quiet study area. The Rare Book and Special Collections Room in the gallery level includes rare collections of saints’ lives, histories of religious orders, and other ecclesiastical, spiritual, and literary works in several European languages from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The Periodicals Collection is also housed in the main level, surrounding a comfortable reading area containing the current issues of the collection; microform reader-printers are available in this general area. The Library receives some 250 periodicals, and has a developing collection that includes some 800 reels of microfilm and microfiche. In addition to these print titles, the library also offers access to an additional 52 full-text periodicals through VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia; these are available at any of the terminals located in the Information Commons, adjacent to the periodicals reading area. Interlibrary loan services are readily available through the College’s on-line access to commercially available databases and to the catalogs of major universities throughout the nation and the world. The College’s reference librarians provide programs for orientation and research techniques for students at all collegiate levels. The St. Paul Library is a branch of the Christendom College Library at the Notre Dame Graduate School facility in Alexandria, Virginia, containing an additional nine thousand volumes in the fields of Theology and Philosophy. (See the Notre Dame Graduate School of Christendom College Catalog, available from the Admissions Office.) The St. John the Evangelist Library, formerly the O’Reilly Memorial Library, is designed to house an eventual collection of about 130,000 monographic volumes, 5,000 audio and video cassettes or alternate media, 30,000 bound periodical volumes, and a total of some 500 current subscription titles. With the addition of temporary classrooms, the Computer Center, and Audio Visual lab in the lower level, The St. John the Evangelist Library is certainly the hub of the academic life of the Christendom College campus. Library Contacts and Personnel: St. John the Evangelist Library Phone: (540) 636-2900, ext. 1233 or you may contact the staff directly at the following extensions: Mr. Andrew V. Armstrong, MSLS, Library Director ext. 1231 Mr. Stephen P. Pilon, MSLS, Associate Librarian ext. 1252 Mrs. Roberta Moran Peer, Cataloging Associate, ext. 1255 Mr. Louis Massett, Serials Assistant, ext. 1232 Mrs. Mickey Krebs, Acquisitions Assistant, ext. 1234 St. Paul Library NDGS
The Notre Dame Graduate School of Christendom College St. Paul Library
The principal learning resource center for the Christendom Graduate School is the St. John the Evangelist Library located on the Christendom College campus in Front Royal, Virginia. It has a collection in excess of 60,000 volumes, ten thousand of which are in the field of Religion and Theology, and over four thousand in the field of Philosophy.
The St. Paul Library also offers the student access to the on-line catalog of the Washington Research Libraries Consortium (WRLC), which includes the library holdings of the American University, Catholic University of America, George Mason University, George Washington University, Marymount University, Gallaudet University, and the University of the District of Columbia. Although these academic libraries cannot offer circulation privileges, they all welcome in-house use of their resources by Christendom graduate students. The St. Paul Library also offers access to a variety of databases on CD-ROM. The St. John the Evangelist Library is a member of the OCLC Network of Libraries, which gives the NDGS students access to thousands of libraries around the country via the Interlibrary Loan. Christendom graduate students and faculty have library privileges at the Woodstock Theological Library, the Lauinger Library of Georgetown University, and the Dominican House of Studies Library. The prestigious Woodstock Theological Library grants NDGS full access to books and periodicals, research guidance, special aid for students working on theses, and a wide range of supplemental services. The Lauinger Library of Georgetown University allows NDGS students to participate in the wide and diverse facilities of the library, including its audio-visual facilities and its inter-library loan service. The Virginia Public Library System includes many fine university libraries within 100 miles of the Front Royal or Alexandria Campus. Among them are: University of Virginia Libraries George Mason University Library James Madison University Library Summer
and Semester Breaks: Graduate Summer
Session NDGS St. Paul Library Hours of
Operation 4407 Sano Street M-F: 9:30 a.m. -
9:30 p.m. Associated Libraries: Woodstock Theological
Library Georgetown University Closed Sat. & Sun. Georgetown-Lauinger
Library M-Th: 8:30 a.m.-Midnight Dominican House
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Internet Public Access
terminals are available in the Information Commons in the central area
of the Library’s main floor, along with networked access to CD-ROM
titles, access to some excellent electronic resources, and the library’s
computer catalog. The library’s computer catalog is also available
in various terminals sprinkled throughout the general collections in both
the main and gallery levels. Coin-operated photocopying is also available
in both the main and gallery levels. The Library also has an audio-visual
collection, including CD-ROM multimedia discs, VHS videos and audio cassettes
in the classroom level.
NDGS St. Paul Library
