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Clifton Fowler Library
Phone: 303-963-3250
Toll-Free: 1-877-777-6132
Fax: 303-963-3251
E-mail:
cculibrary@ccu.edu
Clifton Fowler Library is located on the Lakewood campus in the Beckman Building. Ample parking is available. There is also a small secured library at the Music Center Building on Garrison Street.
FOR INFORMATION AND ASSISTANT CALL 303-963-3250, ADULT AND GRADUATES AND AT A DISTANCE TOLL-FREE AT 1-877-777-6132.
All collections and services, virtual and otherwise, are fully available to students, staff, and faculty at the Lakewood Campus and to CCU’s other Colorado Centers in Grand Junction, Loveland, Colorado Springs, and elsewhere.
Virtual Collection
The Library maintains a Web page that offers a highly selective collection of Web sites, both purchased and free, that relate to CCU research and learning needs. PASSWORDS/AUTHORIZATIONS are accessed via librarian, handout,or the Library Department Web Page. Subscription REFERENCE databases include : ABC-CLIO E-Reference (240 titles), CQResearcher (hot topics), Encyclopedia Britannica, Gale Virtual Reference Library (41 reference works), Galenet (literary criticism/biographies), InetLibrary (quality websites), Naxos Music Library, Nursing Consult, and others. Subscription JOURNAL databases that offer tens of thousands of full-text articles online include: EBSCO Academic Search, EBSCO Business Source, ATLASReligion, ProQuest, Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe, International Index to Music and others. Many of the above databases include more than 8,000 e-books. Subject and writing guides, as well as the Library, Information, & Research Tutorial are available 24/7.
Book Collection
The Clifton Fowler Library book collection’s approximately 100,000 titles are closely tied to the CCU curriculum and aim to support the subject areas covered by CCU’s academic programs. Books are located on the lower level, circulate out of the building for three weeks (renewable by phone at 303-963-3250), and are arranged in Library of Congress LC call number order. New books are first placed on the New Book Shelves near the Circulation Desk and can be checked out from there as well.
LC call numbers begin with alphabet letters followed by a whole number. The system organizes materials by subject. BF = psychology, BJ = ethics, BS = Bible studies, D-F = history, HB-HJ = business, RC = medicine.
Example: HD = Leadership/Management is followed by HF = Marketing
Example: HQ76, HQ471, HQ775, HQ1121 are in order.
Example: HQ784.T4 C456, HQ784.T4 C84 are in order.
CCU’s collection is particularly strong in the biblical studies area.
Reference Collection
Reference works with compilations of information and overviews of given topics are excellent starting points. CCU Library has more than 9,300 reference titles. These materials do not circulate, but may be photocopied. Dictionaries, specialized encyclopedias, handbooks, directories, statistical sources, Bible commentaries, literary criticism, and atlases are among the offerings in the Reference Room. Access this material in the CCU Online Library Catalog by entering a subject phrase, such as psychology – encyclopedias; music – directories; Bible. O.T. – Commentaries. CCU Library also has 281 of these major works online in its Virtual Collections.
Reserve Materials at the Circulation Desk
Faculty place both personal paper copies and book copies, as well as library materials, on reserve for limited checkout to students (normally two hours, but may be one day, seven days, etc.).
Journal Collection
The latest issues of close to 250 current hard copy print journals are located alphabetically by title in the Current Journals Room. They can be photocopied, but do not circulate. The back issues of these current subscriptions, plus back runs of other titles, are located alphabetically by title in the Back Journals Room just beyond the Current Journals Room (596 titles). Back issues circulate for a week and are renewable by phone at 303-963-3250. The Library’s subscription electronic journals number more than 60,000 titles and are available 24/7 via Journal Indexes and Full-Text Articles on the Library Web. Here too is complete title/holdings listing of the hard copy print journals in both the Current and Back Journals Rooms. In all CCU has approximately 596 print journal titles. There is also a complete holdings listing of both the online journal titles and the hard copy titles (by title and by subject).
Newspaper Collection
The Library's current paper newspapers are located in the Video/DVD Alcove and are kept for a limited period of time for current awareness. They include: the Denver Post and the Wall Street Journal. An extensive selection of U.S. and world newspapers, as well as AP wires, is available online at Lexis-Nexis, in the EBSCO Newspaper Source on the Journal Indexes and Full-Text Articles Web page.
CD, DVD, and Video Collection
1,500+ videos, 200+ audiocassettes, the Bible on CD and 2500+ music CDs that support the curriculum are located in the DVD/Video Alcove. The CDs are in a cabinet in the Reference Room and in the Music Library. They circulate for a week (renewable by phone at 303-963-3250).
Curriculum Lab
Close to 5,000 circulating children’s and secondary school reading books, toys, manipulatives, and teacher resources are housed together in a Curriculum area at the north end of the lower level. They carry the designations CUR CB (children's books), CUR AD (adolescent), CUR ELE (Elementary), MID (Middle), or SEC (Secondary) and can check out. There are approximately 5,000 items available for prospective teachers and others.
ERIC Document Collection
The ERIC Web site indexes ERIC journals and ERIC Documents. CCU has the complete microfiche ED ERIC Documents set. It is located in the file cabinets in the Reference Room by the six-digit ED 000 000 Document number. The fiche can be photocopied for free on the accompanying microfiche reader.
Theses
A limited number of Master’s theses (currently 166), kept as practicum exemplars, are located at the end of the Curriculum Lab shelves on the lower level with a sign CURRICULUM THESES. They are accessible by year and then by author. In the Library Online Catalog, look up Title Starts with 2007 Masters of Arts in Curriculum...theses and 2008 Masters of Arts in Curriculum...theses or do a general keyword search by Masters of Arts. They circulate for three weeks.
Music Collection
A small collection of music reference materials, latest issues of music periodicals, and some 2500+ classical CDs, and music videos are located in a secured room in the Music Center. Ask at the Music Center for the entry combination. There are also music books in the main Library stacks in the M's. Back issues of music journals are in the Back Journals Room in the main Library. The Musicache microfiche collection of over 1,000 scores from the major composers (Bach, Beethovern, Bizet, Brahams, Chopin, Debussy, Dvorak, etc.) from 1600 - 1900 is in the Reference Room of the main Library. An index at the Reference Desk provides access by category of music, author, titile, and vocal/instrumental desigmation. Music students also have access to a streaming audio database called Naxos. Also, a new collection, the Stolba Music Collection is at the end of the Back Journals Room in the main library.
Bible Collection (Uncatalogued)
A bookcase on the back wall of the Reference Room holds numerous Bibles in different versions that can be used within the Library.
Special Collections On Call Materials
A very small group of Special Collections materials is stored in the Technical Office and must be retrieved by Circulation staff. The items are primarily very expensive videos that check out only to faculty for use in their classroom.
Archives
CCU has some archival materials related to the university that are non-circulating. Currently catalogued in this collection are a selection of yearbooks from past years in the university's history, a collection of Grace and Truth, videos of past CCU graduation ceremonies, and other material. These materials may be used within the Technical Office only. Contact Gayle Gunderson, the Library Director.
