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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. Subscription REFERENCE databases include : CQResearcher (hot topics), Encyclopedia Britannica, Gale Virtual Reference Library(30 reference works), Galenet (literary criticism/biographies), InetLibrary (quality websites), LION (literature), Naxos Music Library, Nursing Consult, and World Data Analyst. Subscription JOURNAL DATABASES that offer tens of thousands of full-text articles online include: Academic Search, Business Source, ATLASReligion, ProQuest, Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe, and International Index to Music. 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 83,500+ 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 approximately 8,000 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 30 of these major works online in its Virtual Collection.
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 400 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. Back issues circulate for a week and are renewable by phone at 303-963-3250. The Library’s subscription electronic journals number more than 20,000 titles and are available 24/7 via Journal Indexes and Full-Text Articles on the Library Web.
Newspaper Collection
The Library's current paper newspapers are located in the Current Journals Room and are kept for a limited period of time for current awareness. They include: the Denver Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Christian Science Monitor. An extensive selection of U.S. and world newspapers, as well as AP wires, is available online at Lexis-Nexis 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
Both FirstSearch and the ERIC Web site index 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
Approximately fifty Master’s theses, carrying the designation Curriculum Theses and are located within the Curriculum Lab on the lower level. They are accessible by title and author in the Library Online Catalog and circulate for three weeks. The practicum exemplars carry the designation CUR THESES and are located at the very end of the Curriculum Lab shelves.
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 Gretchen Redfield, the Archivist.
