Right next door to the Administration Building, the Cierpke Memorial Library is the next stop on our trip. The library exists to serve the Tennessee Temple University community, but it is open for internal use by the general public as well. The Cierpke Memorial Library collections number approximately 145,000 items. Cierpke Memorial Library, which is named after Dr. Alfred E. Cierpke, first dean of Temple Baptist University, is designed to support the training of theological students from a fundamentalist perspective. Collecting areas include philosophy of religion, biblical studies, church history, theology, pastoral ministry, world missions and evangelism.
Special attention is given to studies and documentation of the Fundamentalist tradition.
You are invited to reach out and appropriate the wealth of theological knowledge available to you here. Cierpke Memorial Library's underlying principle is one of service to library users in the context of careful management of resources for the sake of the whole Tennessee Temple University community. This principle permeates the library's policies, guidelines, procedures and individual arrangements. Overall the library's attitude is meant to be one of exceptional helpfulness to library users within policies and guidelines. Continue your guided tour at the Weigle Music Center .