including the McLean County Small Business Development Center, which offers no-cost services to local entrepreneurs and small businesses.
Bachelor's degree programs are offered in three colleges:
College of Liberal Arts: organized in 1906
College of Fine Arts: Schools of art, music, and theatre arts organized in 1929, 1946, 1947 respectively
School of Nursing: Established in 1959
=== Ames Library ===
Illinois Wesleyan's Ames Library was completed in 2002. It contains over 368,000 volumes spread over five floors. The Ames Library also houses eight sets of stained glass panels originally from Pembroke College at Oxford University. Among the special collections are the papers of former U.S. Representative Leslie C. Arends; the Gernon collection of first editions of detective fiction and mysteries; and the Schultz collection of 18th- and 19th-century British drama, including The Beggar's Opera. Construction cost $25.7 million; Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbot were the principal architects.
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