The library collection includes more than 80,000 books and subscriptions to 500 periodicals covering all theological disciplines. Strong collections in African American and Native American studies, feminist studies, and gerontology are available. A growing collection of regional church historical source materials and the E. Dale Dunlap Collection of Wesleyan and British Methodist Theology are both housed in the Heritage Room. Classification Systems and the Online Catalog Dana Dawson Library has resources cataloged with both the Dewey Decimal System and the Library of Congress Classification , though the latter system is predominant. Dana Dawson Library is a member of the Kansas City Library Consortium which offers an automated shared database of holdings with the Kansas City Missouri Public Library and 22 other libraries in the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Holdings are available through the Online Catalog .
Other Library Services Students and faculty also have access to the library holdings of many other libraries in the United States via our Interlibrary Loan Services . OCLC First Search offers faculty and students the ability to conduct their own live, online searches in various large databases and to generate Interlibrary Loan requests online for the materials found. The Religious and Theological Abstracts offers abstracts of articles in the field of religion. United Methodist Hymnal. Library materials circulate up to three weeks and may be renewed only once.