See Also
Classes & appointments
Classes and appointments may be scheduled in Honnold/Mudd, Denison, or on campus. For more information, contact Gale Burrow.
CCDL
The CCDL (Claremont Colleges Digital Library) provides access to a growing number of digital collections from The Colleges as well as from Library Special Collections.
About the Claremont Colleges Library
- Mission Statement
- Libraries & locations
- Learning, teaching, & research
- Electronic resources
- Collections
- Interlibrary loan
- Affiliated libraries
Mission Statement for the Claremont Colleges Library
The Library is partners with The Claremont Colleges in learning, teaching, and research. We are committed to fostering intellectual discovery, critical thinking, and life-long learning. Accordingly, the Library ties our academic community to varied cultural and scholarly traditions by offering user-centered services, building collections, developing innovative technologies, and providing an inviting environment for study, collaboration, and reflection.
Libraries & locations
Honnold/Mudd Library, located at 800 Dartmouth Avenue, across the street from Huntley Bookstore, holds collections in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Denison Library, located on the Scripps College campus, specializes in the humanities and fine arts. The CUC Records Center, located at 2038 W. 11th Street in Upland, houses most of the paper journals and a small percentage of books from the library collections. Materials at the Records Center may be requested for delivery or may be browsed on site.
Learning, teaching, & research
Library research instruction and workshops for classes and other groups, as well as individual appointments for instruction and research assistance, may be scheduled in Honnold/Mudd, Denison, or on campus. Most library research classes and workshops are held in the Keck Learning Room, Honnold/Mudd's smart, hands-on teaching facility. All library facilities are open to students, faculty, and staff of all The Claremont Colleges.
Electronic resources
The Library's large collection of electronic resources provides ready access to a wide variety of bibliographic, full-text and multimedia information. From the library web site, it is possible to search Blais, the online catalog, or any of hundreds of databases including services such as Lexis-Nexis Academic and ISI Web of Science. Other resources include electronic books and journals, such as the ACM Digital Library and Congressional Quarterly Library. The Claremont Colleges Digital Library (CCDL) provides access to a growing number of digital collections from The Colleges as well as from Library Special Collections. Digital collections such as Early English Books Online and North American Women's Letters & Diaries make available thousands of additional primary source materials. Most of these resources are accessible to students, faculty and staff of The Claremont Colleges in their dorms, labs, offices and homes, as well as in the library.
Collections
Library resources include over 2 million volumes. The Library also has extensive holdings of journals, magazines and newspapers: currently we provide access to articles in over 70,000 journals. Honnold/Mudd Library is a depository for publications issued by the United States government, and has extensive holdings of publications from the State of California, Great Britain, the United Nations, and other international agencies. The Asian Studies Collection at Honnold/Mudd has a large collection of Asian language materials. The Libraries also hold extensive special collections. You can get a copy of A Guide to Special Collections in Special Collections at Honnold/Mudd Library or at Denison Library. Use Blais, the library catalog, to search for materials held by the Libraries.
Interlibrary loan
The Library offers Interlibrary Loan service and maintain partnerships which provide access to books, articles, and other materials not held in our collections. These partnerships include LINK+ and the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago.
Affiliated libraries
Students, faculty, and staff also have access to several nearby affiliated libraries, including the George C. Stone Center for Children's Books, a division of Claremont Graduate University's Center for Developmental Studies in Education; the botanical and horticultural library of the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden; and the library at the Claremont School of Theology.