Undergraduate - Lee University

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS 33
An added feature of the building is the Dixon Pentecostal Research
Center, which houses a comprehensive collection of materials pertaining to
the Church of God and the Pentecostal/Charismatic movement.
Students, faculty, alumni, and church and community members are
served by a staff of eighteen and a student staff of about thirty-five. Services
include telephone and in-person reference assistance, library instruction for
classes, organizing and providing access to a collection of more than 153,000
volumes, 835 current periodicals in print format, and 63,000 microforms and
interlibrary loan access to 43 million titles.
Electronic resources include the on-line catalog and automated circulation
system, which provides the ability to search the local holdings and
those of the Cleveland Public Library in the library, on the World Wide Web,
or by modem. Membership in the Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET)
gives interlibrary loan access to 40 million titles. Electronic subscriptions
via the Internet and CD-ROM give access to more than 1,300 periodical
titles in full text as well as indexing to many others. The Internet is accessible
on workstations throughout the library.
Library hours:
Monday-Thursday.............................8:00 a.m.-12:00 midnight
Friday..................................................8:00 a.m.- 9:00 p.m.
Saturday..............................................9:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Sunday................................................2:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Writing Center
The Department of English and Modern Foreign Languages offers special
assistance in composition and grammar through the Writing Center.
Staffed by faculty members and trained peer instructors, the center offers
assistance on four levels. Students with basic writing problems can find help
with composition, grammar and mechanics. Intermediate students are
assisted in organization and in paragraph and theme development. More
advanced students are aided in research techniques, documentation, and
planning the long paper. Students may bring in creative works for evaluation
and professional suggestions. The Writing Center also provides assistance
for students whose native language is not English.
The Writing Center is equipped with Gateway 2000 computers. Any
Lee University student may use these facilities by making an appointment
in the center. Tutorial sessions are conducted on a one-to-one basis, last for
thirty minutes, and must be scheduled in advance.
Computer Lab
The Lee University Academic Computer Lab, located in the Walker
Memorial Building and managed by the Business Department, is a modern
computer lab open to all students. All computers in the lab are IBM compatible
using Windows 95 and are connected to a central server and the World
Wide Web with Novell NetWare 5.0. There are dozens of software packages