The Library System serves Evangel University as the primary information resource facility, supporting all undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate programs with extensive resources in several formats along with a wide variety of services. There are three locations on campus: the Kendrick library, the Cordas C. Burnett library and the Instructional Resource Center. All three locations offer print, digital, multi-media and audio-visual resources. In addition, a satellite library is located at the James River Leadership Campus, a two-year program focused primarily on Church Leadership.
The Kendrick Library offers multiple locations for study on two levels including a computer lab with 13 computers, multiple laser printers, and a copy machine/scanner/printer, providing productivity software, library resources and the Internet. The main level also has two distinct areas for study, one for group study and one for quiet study. Kendrick Library provides study stations at carrels, tables and comfortable reading seats most of which offer power connections for individual device use. The entire building has wireless network connectivity. The main level also houses the Reference and Circulation collections of print resources which includes over 120,000 printed books, multiple current periodicals, bound periodicals and an additional approximately 140,000 E-books which support a wide assortment of Liberal Arts education, including Behavioral and Social Sciences, Business, Communications, Education, Humanities, Kinesiology, Music, Science and Technology, Theology and Church Ministries.
Devotional books and recreational books, along with extensive DVD and Audio-book collections allow students to enjoy resources other than what is necessary to fulfill academic requirements. Art displays, special book collections, two gardens and a fountain help make the Kendrick library comfortable for patrons.
The Instructional Resource Center, housed in the Zimmerman Academic Building, and includes curriculum collection educational technology computer lab, media equipment work tables, media equipment, and various other services.
The Cordas C. Burnett Library is the major information resource center of AGTS, incorporating both a physical resource center along with an increasingly vast array of digital resources that can be made available to students throughout the world. The two-level physical facility provides students with a pleasant, quiet atmosphere and a wealth of resources for the pursuit of serious graduate study. The library has a 135,000-volume capacity and its holdings currently consist of approximately 127,000 bound volumes and approximately 5,500 media in various formats, The holdings include extensive biblical, theological and missiological materials, a collection of counseling resources and are augmented by the Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center located at The Assemblies of God General Council headquarters in Springfield.
The facility includes a computer center that provides access to productivity software, library resources and the Internet. AGTS students may use the library’s copy machine to scan and save copies of documents, either using USB drives or their personal email accounts, and for color printing. A wireless network is accessible throughout the facilities and students can send their laptop or home computer print jobs to the library’s printer or copy machine.
Evangel University libraries provide students and faculty access to several online databases and publisher backfiles that significantly enhance the library’s collection, serving as periodical indexing tools while also providing full-text access to a wide range of electronic resources, including journals and eBooks. These databases include: full-text databases available through EBSCOhost (the ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, Old and New Testament Abstracts, Educational Resources Information Center – ERIC, Jewish Studies Source, Humanities International Complete and EBSCO databases such as Academic Search Ultimate and the EBSCO eBook Collection); eHRAF (Electronic Human Relations Area Files for cross-cultural and intercultural studies); Pro Quest Research Library, including the Pro Quest Dissertations & Theses Full Text database; Guide to Social Science & Religion in Periodical Literature. In addition, the library also has BibleWorks installed for student use on a handful of Student Computer Center machines.
Requested materials are delivered within one or two days of being requested by the MOBIUS Courier Delivery System. Local libraries that participate in MOBIUS include Cottey College, Crowder College, Drury University, Missouri Southern State University, Ozark Christian College, Ozarks Technical Community College and Southwest Baptist University. The library also offers interlibrary loan services through OCLC that enable patrons to borrow books from other non-Consortium libraries throughout the country.