QUICK FACTS
The Library contains:
History:
When California Lutheran University, then called California Lutheran College, opened in 1961 the library housed only 22,000 volumes and was located in the Orville Dahl Centrum, the current home of the Centrum Café. It didn’t take long for the growing collection to exceed the limited capacity of the Centrum, and soon portions of Alumni Hall were turned into library overflow and storage areas. Collection records detailing the rapid collection growth provide some explanation for the unorthodox shelving choices: by the 1976/77 school year the collection had ballooned to 85,863 volumes, 871 periodical subscriptions, and 44,545 government documents. In 1981, only twenty years after opening, the collection stood at 95,992 volumes, 730 periodical subscription, 62,489 government documents, and 1,093 pieces of all types of software.
- 318,560 volumes including 185,339 full-text e-books
- 300 print and electronic journal subscriptions
- 161 online databases with over 70,000 full text journals
- Access to over a million full text dissertations that are available to download in PDF format
- Curriculum, juvenile literature, and audiovisual collections
- Course reserve material available in the library and via Blackboard 9.1 course management system
- Over 293 Popular reading and over 2,000 Film and DVD titles
- Over 382,000 High Resolution rights cleared images
- Over 7,759 streaming online videos
History:
When California Lutheran University, then called California Lutheran College, opened in 1961 the library housed only 22,000 volumes and was located in the Orville Dahl Centrum, the current home of the Centrum Café. It didn’t take long for the growing collection to exceed the limited capacity of the Centrum, and soon portions of Alumni Hall were turned into library overflow and storage areas. Collection records detailing the rapid collection growth provide some explanation for the unorthodox shelving choices: by the 1976/77 school year the collection had ballooned to 85,863 volumes, 871 periodical subscriptions, and 44,545 government documents. In 1981, only twenty years after opening, the collection stood at 95,992 volumes, 730 periodical subscription, 62,489 government documents, and 1,093 pieces of all types of software.