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The Library and Learning Center
The LLC houses the library, the Department of Humanities and the Department of Writing and Literature, an open-access computer lab, a math and science computer lab, a language laboratory and a multimedia classroom. The library holds 100,000 volumes in open stacks, including bound periodicals, pamphlets and other unbound materials, phonograph recordings and a large collection of microfilms. The library's collections of art books and children's literature are well known for their depth and range. The library is linked to the Online Computer Library Center, a national bibliographic service that provides cataloguing and interlibrary loan access to over 12 million bibliographic records for location and verification of books, serials and non-print materials. The LLC also houses the Ellsworth International Room, which includes artifacts and memorabilia collected by Professor Emeritus Robert A. Ellsworth over the length of his career as a diplomat and scholar. The room also includes a collection of Professor Ellsworth's books dealing with history and political science and materials felt to be of significance to the study of history or political science, donated by friends of the Ellsworth Trust.
The Babcock Nature Preserve, located ten miles from Johnson State College in Eden, Vermont, is a 1,000-acre tract of forest land owned and maintained by the College for scientific and educational purposes. A site of geological significance carved out of the northern Green Mountains by ancient glaciers, the preserve offers a diversity of settings for studies in the natural sciences. Three large ponds dominate the physical landscape, and birds and mammals abound. With forested watersheds of mixed conifers and northern hardwoods, opportunities for field studies in hydrology, limnology, and terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem analyses are unlimited. The summer field program at the preserve features a number of short, intensive courses designed to provide field experience in the natural sciences beyond those normally possible during the academic year
This building houses the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Environmental and Health Sciences, a 200-seat lecture hall with movie projection facilities, an interactive television studio, and laboratories for biology, chemistry, physical sciences and geographic information systems.
Carter Gymnasium/SHAPE Facility
Johnson State's S.H.A.P.E. (Student Health and Physical Education) facility is home to the College's Athletic Department, Health and Physical Education Division, Intramurals and Athletic Training Department. The S.H.A.P.E. facility was built in 1990 as an addition to the existing Carter Gymnasium. The complex includes two gymnasiums, a spacious weight room complete with free weights and Nautilus machines, an aerobic fitness area with Life Cycles, stair climbers, Concept II rowing machines, elliptical trainers, a Gravitron, Landice treadmills, fleet of spinning bikes, a bouldering wall, a 26-foot climbing wall, a squash court, two racquetball courts, and a six-lane 25-yard swimming pool.
Featured outdoors are the Minaert Fields, located directly adjacent to the SHAPE facility, which serve as home fields for our soccer, softball and lacrosse teams. There are four resurfaced tennis courts with views overlooking the intramural field located on the eastern side of campus. Also offered for outdoor enthusiasts is a 10K trail system for running, hiking, and cross country skiing, along with a 12-hole Disc Golf Course positioned across the college campus and a snowboard park.
The center houses the office of the dean of students, the career center, Upward Bound, the academic support services offices, the student association offices, the center for service learning (SERVE), WJSC-FM and Basement Medicine (the student newspaper). It also contains two classrooms and a small food service area.
The Dibden Center for the Arts contains a 450-seat theater with a proscenium stage, a removable dance floor, and choral and orchestra risers. The center houses the music and theater faculty, studios, practice rooms, classrooms and a piano laboratory, as well as the Julian Scott Memorial Art Gallery.
This building, the main administration building, houses the offices of the president, academic dean, dean of administration and registrar, the admissions, financial aid, housekeeping (maintenance is located in the maintenance garage), dean of institutional advancement, alumni and development, and business offices, marketing and printing services, the graduate office, and the External Degree Program, along with the department of business/economics and a business/hospitality/tourism management computer laboratory.
The oldest building on campus, McClelland houses the department of education, the department of behavioral sciences and the behavioral sciences computer lab, the dance studio, and the Child Development Center, which provides day care and pre-school activities for community children.
In addition to being a residence hall for students, this building houses the print shop and conference and event services.
In addition to being a residence hall for students, this building houses the health center and the counseling center.
Stearns houses the dining hall, bookstore, post office, the department of public safety, the women's center, meeting rooms, and the Base Lodge.
The VAC houses the college's visual arts programs, with drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, ceramics and woodworking studios, as well as a gallery for exhibiting works in progress and student projects, and faculty offices.
Descriptions of the College's four residence halls are found in the Residence Life section.