The Clifton Fowler Library moved over the summer into a temporary location in the George Whitefield center (center of campus).  We have a nice, open and welcoming space here, but we’re very eager to move into a brand new, beautiful library when the Armstrong Center is constructed.  When construction commences it’ll be about 16-18 months when we can move into this new space.  This library page answers your questions about our move and our services in this interim location.  We have some print books here with us and others are offsite and we have two trips a day to pull requested titles and bring them back here for easy pick-ups.  We offer space for studying and printing as well as Book A Librarian appointments (1:1 research appointments with a librarian and a student).  Please find and use the library!  

Along with all of Colorado Christian University, the remarkable Billy Graham exhibit has had to close beginning Friday March 20th through Sunday, March 29.  We hope we can reopen after March 29.  It’s a wonderful exhibit. Please watch this space for updates on this situation or go to ccu.edu/billygraham. 

I invite you to come to campus to see To the Ends of the Earth; the Gospel Ministry of Billy Graham that Briana Martin and Gayle Gunderson, Library faculty, with several School of Theology faculty and others at CCU, have designed and built.  The exhibit offers a contemporary museum-quality experience that highlights the extraordinary life of Billy Graham.  It includes videos and artifacts from Billy Graham and items from his crusades, his significant media impact, his wife, Ruth Graham, and the World Conferences that he established.  According to the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA), the CCU exhibit is the largest ever outside of the BGEA exhibit in North Carolina.  We hope you’ll come and visit through June 2020.  For more information click here.

Above is the video telling the story of the Lehmann Gross Bahn (LBG) Christmas Train that makes a stop at the Clifton Fowler Library at Christmas!  The cars are pulled by two Christmas engines and two “tenders”, supply cars for engines that hold the coal and water. The train has three tenders and two of them have motors. To compare, in the video above (at 3 minutes into the video) a single (two-motor) engine is pulling 28 cars and you have a mouse’s view from high up in the rafters of the Christmas train loop! This delightful train is a passion and hobby for Oliver Schulz, Technical Services Librarian. Oliver adds about 5 cars each year though he’s running out of good and affordable options. In 2017 he and Shane Ratzell, Information Services Librarian, built the high track that goes around the library’s Reference room perimeter and across an amazing suspension bridge.  Merry Christmas from all of us at the library!

The September 2019 CCU Review is now available!  The CCU Review is a “values-driven journal of peer-reviewed scholarly and creative work published by the Office of the President and the Communications and Creative Services Department.” It offers a collection of reviews and essays by our faculty.  In this issue there are reviews of The Coddling of the American Mind, reviewed by Dr. Ryan Hartwig; The Diary of a Young Girl, reviewed by Dr. William Watson; Mere Christianity, reviewed by Dr. Kevin Turner; On Reading Well, reviewed by Dr. Janet Black; Out Where the West Begins, reviewed by Dr. Donald W. Sweeting; The Right Side of History, reviewed by Dr. Tom Copeland; This We Proclaim, reviewed by Dr. Megan Devore; and Unplanned reviewed by Dr. Jill Mcelheny.

The faculty at the library welcomes all new and returning faculty and students back for the fall semester!  Hang onto your hats, here we go!

The Library upgraded a core Ebsco academic database, Academic Search Premier, to Academic Search Complete to foster greater resource exploration!

Library shortcuts: being a small library we all do everything, but for efficiency, here’s who to go to for when you’d like to:

1. Schedule a Librarian visit for your class ~ Briana  (brmartin@ccu.edu)
2. Request a new item ~ Oliver    (oschulz)
3. Help with database, tutorials and web pages ~ Shane  (sratzell) and Brian (bwright)
4. Add a Reserve item ~ Michael (mjaman)
5. “All other” and Dean of the Library ~ Gayle (ggunderson)

Lastly, here are student’s comments* about Book A Librarian:

1. “Every student should do this at least once. They are so helpful!”
2. “Great program. Keep it up”
3. “Great resource and help for students to have”
4. “I had a wonderful experience with Book A Librarian for my research paper. I found it extremely helpful and informative”
5. “They saved me hours of work…and showed me how to do it more effectively… I learn more every time I book a Librarian”

*from your course’s student evaluations, spring 2019

The Library is excited to launch the Clifton Fowler Library Exemplary Research Paper Award, CFLERPA, this semester!  It is open to current junior and senior undergrad students who are invited to submit a research paper they’ve written during this 2018-2019 academic year.  The Library faculty will read, review and select the award winning paper and the student will be announced at the April 30th Awards Chapel.  CFLERPA includes a $100 cash award.  Please see the library’s CFLERPA page for details.

A new year begins every January in our calendar year.  Above is another calendar; the Church Year or Liturgical Year.  Our lives and years are marked by our own and our family’s birthdays, anniversaries and special events and celebrations.  Likewise, the Church Year marks the life of Christ and the life of the early church and helps us to mark and to remind us of their importance and significance.

We are proud of seven CCU faculty who wonderfully represented CCU by presenting at the Evangelical Theological Society conference in Denver in November!  Thank you, Drs. Devore and Kotter, Professor Plato, Drs. Rodriquez, Steward, Waggoner and Watson.  Congratulations, faculty!

It’s fall and today in Colorado it’s snowing (Colorado does that)!  This fall is a midterm election (Nov 6) and our local ballot is a long one.  What’s a citizen and Christian to do?  Register to vote  (the deadline to register by mail or online is Oct. 29. Residents can register in person by Election Day.)  Then vote!  But first do your own research and vote as smartly and wisely as you can.  Don’t save this to the last minute because this is like homework; especially this year it’ll take some time.  Pray before voting.  Vote as you see best and fit and not just how another is voting.