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Clifton Fowler Library
Phone: 303-963-3250
Toll-Free: 877-777-6132
Fax: 303-301-8252
E-mail:
cculibrary@ccu.edu

Collections

Collections Clifton Fowler Library is located on the Lakewood campus in the Beckman Building. There is also a small secured library at the Music Center Building on Garrison Street.

FOR INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE CALL 303-963-3250; ADULT AND GRADUATES TOLL-FREE AT 1-877-777-6132.

All collections and services are fully available to students, staff, and faculty at the Lakewood Campus and to CCU’s Centers elsewhere.

Virtual Collection

The Library Web page offers Web sites that relate to CCU research and learning needs. PASSWORDS and AUTHORIZATIONS, if needed, are accessed via librarian, handout, or the Library Department Web Page. Subscription REFERENCE databases include: ABC-CLIO (275 titles), CQ Researcher (hot topics), Britannica, Gale Virtual Reference Library (41 titles), Galenet (literary criticism/bios), InetLibrary (quality websites), Naxos Music Library, Mosby's Nursing Consult, etc. Subscription JOURNAL databases offering thousands of full-text articles online, include: EBSCO Academic Search/Business Source, EBSCO ATLA/SReligion, ProQuest, Lexis-Nexis, etc. These databases have more than 8,000 e-books. Subject and writing guides, and the Library, Information, & Research Tutorial are also available.

Book Collection

The Library book collection’s 100,000+ titles are tied to the curriculum and support subject areas covered by CCU’s academic programs. Books are on the lower level, circulate for three weeks (renewable by phone at 303-963-3250), and are arranged by Library of Congress call number. New books are placed on the New Book Shelves near the Circulation Desk and can be checked out.

LC call numbers begin with alphabet letters followed by a whole number. Books are organized by subject. BF = psychology, 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.

Reference Collection

Reference works with compilations of information and overviews of 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 many of these major works online in its Virtual Collection.

Reserve Materials at the Circulation Desk

Faculty place personal paper 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 nearly 250 current hard copy print journals are alphabetical 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 alphabetical 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 65,000 titles and are available 24/7 via Journal Indexes and Full-Text Articles. Here too is the 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 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, the Denver Post and the Wall Street Journal, are in the Video/DVD Alcove and are kept for a limited time for current awareness. An extensive selection of U.S. and world newspapers, as well as AP wires, is available online at Lexis-Nexis, and 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 children’s and secondary school books, toys, manipulatives, and teacher resources are housed 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 check out. These are especially relevant to prospective teachers.

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

Music reference materials, latest issues of music periodicals, and 2500+ CDs and music videos are located in a secured room in the Music Center. Ask at the Music Center. 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 designation. Music students also have access to a streaming audio database called Naxos. A special 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 Bibles in different versions that can be used within the Library.

Special Collections On Call Materials

Special Collections material 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.