Furman Library galleryLast Tuesday, July 25, Kellen Funk, Eric Brown, and I visited the library at Furman University, not far from BJU. Before we got to the library itself, we went into Furman’s chapel. The chapel is a beautiful, bright, open building with a magnificent pipe organ as a centerpiece. Kellen has been too sheltered within fundamentalism: he thought the footrests were pretty neat until I explained to him that they were for kneeling.

Next we headed to the James B. Duke Library. Kellen is beginning the research for his senior history paper, so he wanted to check Furman’s holdings on his topic and especially to use their access to databases for historical research. I was there to investigate the library in general but particularly to see the Baptist Historical Collection. It’s a collection of records from South Carolina Baptist churches that I hope to use someday for a paper.

You can see photos of the library from Furman’s website or in my gallery.