![]() ![]() ![]() In February 2008, Fuller officials announced that donors had given or pledged the full $148 million of its 20-year expansion plan’s capital campaign. “I say, `Wouldn’t it be cool to have this collection in Pasadena?”‘ he joked. His annual acquisition budget is $400,000, but Bundy looks for donations, too. While the primary focus is on Christianity, the library has scholarly materials on “Islam, Buddhism, secular culture, the arts, psychology – you name it,” Bundy said, plus a huge amount of material on-line. The biblical studies and theology collections, the growing Asian Studies and Latin American resources, private archives, even the largest hymnal collection in the United States, draws scholars and clergy world wide to Fuller, Bundy said.įuller President Richard Mouw called the library “a symbol of our commitment to serious research and scholarship,” and said he wants it to be a “library of the future, a center that offers a way of connecting us with the global Christian community, and of connecting the global Christian community to us.” The new library, named for Fuller’s president from 1963 to 1993, has given space to bring about 520,000 catalogued items, including 300,000 books, that had been stored all over the country, Bundy said. ![]() “My goal now is to have a coffee shop,” Bundy said, laughing. There are meeting spaces, lounging chairs complete with lap-top tables, five conference room with audio-visual capacity, a third-floor balcony with a panoramic view, a temperature-controlled two-story vault for rare books and documents, and innovative carrels designed to offer private study space. The library is open to the community as well as scholars, faculty and the 4,000 graduate students attached to the Pasadena campus, Bundy said. It’s designed to be an “open book from the outside,” Bundy said, and inside, “a comfortable place to be.” The strong contemporary outlines and use of glass on the three-story library – designed by Virginia-based “green” architects William McDonough and Partners – has given a new prominence to the Union Street entrance to the 11-acre campus. “We have done our best to make even the spaces between them appear as minimal as possible…It’s pretty seamless. “Physically, the two will be totally integrated,” Bundy said of the libraries’ combined 90,000 square feet. Librarian David Bundy called the project a “linchpin” of the $148-million campus expansion’s first phase. With completion of the new $28-million, 47,000-square-foot David Allan Hubbard Library, and the total renovation of the 1962-vintage McAlister Library, there is room for 1.4 million items – double the present capacity. PASADENA – For the first time in its 62-year history, Fuller Theological Seminary is about to bring its vast religious collections under one roof on the Pasadena campus. ![]()
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