Loma Linda University Miscellaneous News
December 2, 1999
An academy student learns service with a smile
Editor's note: The following article, written by Jeremy Cruz, a sophomore
at Loma Linda Academy, appeared in the Academy newspaper, The Mirror.
Bam! The announcement hit the high school like a train; several students
sat in their seats stunned. Starting this year, Loma Linda Academy will
require 25 hours of service to graduate.
Mr. Hermann [Douglas Hermann, MS, principal of the high school] carefully
explained that at least 10 of those hours would have to be serving the
community outside of school and church. For most students it wasn't a
problem, until they were told that someone other than their parents would
have to sign for them.
Some students would automatically get some credit just for being in choir
and other fine arts classes. A group of people had gone to the country
of Honduras on a mission trip, thus handling the requirements for the
year. This discussion caused many questions to be raised, which Mr. Hermann
answered patiently. At the end of chapel the teachers passed out a sheet
of paper to everyone, which contained several ideas of what could earn
the hours they need.
So what can you do? Some of suggestions included "adopting"
a grandparent, cleaning yards, working at a nursing home, and volunteering
at a soup kitchen.
Recently a group of students went to Baja California to build a concrete
slab which would be used as a basketball court, and a playground.
They mixed the equivalent of six truckloads of cement by hand. They spent
four days and three nights in Baja working on this cause. The trip itself
cost $75 up front, with the possibility of some of that money getting
back to them.
If you don't want to spend big bucks on a mission trip, but have some
extra time, volunteering at the Loma Linda University Medical Center or
the Children's Hospital offers excellent programs. All they require is
a current TB test, a few signatures, and a picture ID. However, they require
25 hours of service at a designated area, like central service, where
you will spend your time bundling supplies together, or dispatch, which
involves retrieving and obtaining items throughout the hospital.
Still sounds too hard? Just refer to that sheet of paper, or be creative,
and just remember that the entire purpose of the service requirement is
to get you outside of your comfort box and help someone who really needs
it.
by Marilyn C. Crane, MSLS, interim associate chair, archives and special
collections, Del E. Webb Memorial Library
SMALL BEGINNINGS
From a small shelf in the registrar's office in 1907 to a multi-story
building in 1999, the University library has come a long way. The humble
beginning in the early days of the College of Medical Evangelists (the
precursor of Loma Linda University) has given way to the modern Del E.
Webb Memorial Library.
Technology, access to information, and the building that houses the collection
may have changed during that 90-year interval, but behind all this change
there has always been the academic imperative to provide for the information
needs of student, faculty, and stafføthe library as the "heart"
of the educational endeavor.
Over the years, the most visible library changes have taken place in location,
as growth outstripped the quarters provided. From the shelf in the registrar's
office, the library moved to Assembly Hall (the former sanitarium recreational
building) in 1908. The next move was to the new North Laboratory (no longer
in existence) in 1911, where the library occupied nearly one-fourth of
the first floor with enough space for a reading room, book stacks, and
a work area.
Seven years later the library had outgrown that location and was moved
to a larger space in the same building. When Burden Hall was built in
1934, the library, again bursting at the seams, moved to the ground floor.
In the years to come, the library gradually grew into the surrounding
small rooms and then upstairs into the assembly hall where book stacks
were located.
The first building dedicated entirely for library use was built in 1953.
It was named the Vernier-Radcliffe Library after Dr. Jean Vernier-Radcliffe,
who gave a liberal gift in honor of her deceased husband.
This was a proper library consisting of 22,000-square-feet, five levels
of stacks, and a large reading room with the reference collection on shelves
around the perimeter of the room and sturdy oak tables for study purposes.
Various departments (cataloging, serials, acquisitions, and historical
records) had their own rooms.
Libraries are dynamic entities and the need for more room to house a growing
collection became apparent as the century progressed into the 1970s. The
need was again met by a generous gift, this time from the Del E. Webb
Foundation. The new four-story library, which opened the summer of 1981,
was named the Del E. Webb Memorial Library.
Today its 54,609 square feet houses the book collection, current journals,
study areas, and departmental offices, while the Vernier-Radcliffe Memorial
Wing contains the department of archives and special collections, the
bound journal stacks, and the faculty reading/board room.
It is said that information doubles every five years (that rate is expected
to speed up early in the next millennium!). Digitization may change how
information is accessed and the way in which libraries grow, but one thing
is certainøchange is inevitable. The next chapter on the University library
remains to be written.
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