The Claremont Colleges Library

              The Claremont Colleges
Library
Mission Statement
 e Library is partners with  e 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 and 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.  e Honnold Café and Connection,
which houses the Copy Center and the
Claremont Card Center, are found in
Honnold/ Mudd Library.  e CUC Records
Center, located at d 038 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, and 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 the library 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  e Claremont Colleges.
Collections
 e library’s general collections in the arts,
humanities, sciences, and social sciences
include nearly d million volumes.
 e library also has extensive holdings
of journals, magazines and newspapers,
providing access to articles in over 70,000
periodicals. 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.
 e Asian Studies Collection at Honnold/
Mudd has a large collection of Asian
language materials.  e library also holds
extensive special collections. You can get
a copy of A Guide to Special Collections
in the Special Collections Reading Room
at Honnold/ Mudd Library. Use Blais,
the library catalog, to search for library
materials.
Electronic resources
 e 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.  e Claremont Colleges Digital
Library ( CCDL) provides access to a
growing number of digital collections from
 e 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. Sherlock is a “ discovery” tool
that searches across many of the library’s
resources, including local databases such
as Blais and CCDL, as well as most of
the library’s subscription full- text content.
Most electronic resources are accessible to
students, faculty and staff of  e Claremont
Colleges in their dorms, labs, offices and
homes, as well as in the library.
the claremont colleges d | claremont university consortium library | 3
The Claremont Colleges Library Claremont Colleges Digital Library
Scholarship@ Claremont
Cover: Top, Honnold/ Mudd Library
north entrance; bottom, Library south
entrance patio and bridge.
 e Claremont Colleges Digital Library
( CCDL) was established in April d 006
to provide the infrastructure to disseminate
unique resources held by  e Claremont
Colleges Library.
Internationally recognized as a leading
digital library initiative in liberal arts college
libraries, the CCDL hosts nearly 40,000
digital objects organized into 55 distinct
collections highlighting a variety of subject
matter and formats. Included in the CCDL
are a variety of images, audio and video,
and text based objects documenting the
intellectual output of the Colleges and the
unique, rare, and special collections of the
Colleges and the Library.  e digital library
also includes peer reviewed journal articles
written by Claremont Colleges faculty,
senior and masters theses and doctoral
dissertations from students in addition
to fully functional peer reviewed journals
edited by our faculty or otherwise affiliated
with the Colleges.
http:// ccdl. libraries. claremont. edu
Scholarship@ Claremont
Scholarship@ Claremont is the Claremont
Colleges’ publishing and open access
institutional repository. S@ C provides
publishing opportunities and support as
well as being the infrastructure for enhanced
access to faculty and student scholarship.
Peer- reviewed journals, published articles,
conference papers and proceedings, creative
research, data sets, reports, theses and
dissertations, faculty and student art are free
and openly accessible to anyone in the world.
http:// scholarship. claremont. edu
The Journal of Humanistic
Mathematics
 e Journal of Humanistic Mathematics is
the inaugural publication of the recent library
digital initiative, Scholarship @ Claremont.
JHM is a peer- reviewed online and open
access journal edited by math faculty
across the colleges and advised by faculty
across North American and Europe.
http:// scholarship. claremont. edu/ jhm
Theses and Dissertations
in Scholarship@ Claremont
 is unique collection includes the
undergraduate senior theses, master’s theses,
and doctoral dissertations from students
at  e Claremont Colleges, debuting in
December d 010 with Claremont McKenna
College graduating seniors depositing
their theses as a requirement of graduation.
In addition, Claremont Graduate University
Masters of Fine Arts students deposit their
final exhibit. Librarians continue to work
with the other member institutions to
incorporate their undergraduate and
graduate research in the repository.
the claremont colleges library | 5
The Mason Collection The Herbert Clark Hoover Collection
of Mining and Metallurgy
James Carruthers Memorial Aviation
History Collection
Oxford Collection
 e Mason Collection is one of the most
distinguished assemblies of books on the
West and California in any library. William
Smith Mason, former Pomona College
trustee, gave his Western Americana Library
to Pomona in 1915.  e Mason Collection
is rich in primary sources such as early
advertising pamphlets and secondary
sources including important works of travels
and voyages and histories, county histories,
and contemporary accounts of explorers
and figures of the gold rush period. A d 0th
century highlight is Edward S. Curtis’
 e North American Indian in twenty- five
volumes with an additional twenty portfolios
of plates, published from 1907 through 1930.
Left, Original albumen print of Yosemite
from The Wonders of the Yosemite Valley,
and of California by Samuel Kneeland.
Boston, A. Moore, 1871
Right, Title page from Three Weeks in
the Gold Mines, or, Adventures with the
Gold Diggers of California in August, 1848
by Henry I. Simpson. New York : Joyce
and Co., 1848
 is personal library of about one thousand
volumes on the history of science collected
by President Herbert Clark Hoover and
his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, came to  e
Colleges in 1970 as a gift from Herbert
Hoover III and the Hoover family.
Herbert Hoover, who was a consulting
mining engineer, loved rare books, especially
titles in the fields of mining, mathematics,
astronomy and alchemy, natural history,
and geology.  e works of Georgius
Agricola especially intrigued the Hoovers.
His monumental work De Re Metallica
( Basel, 1556) had never been translated into
English, until the Hoovers’ translation was
published in England in 191 d . It is now
a valuable collector’s item.
When he and his wife began translating
Georgius Agricola’s De Re Metallica
they patiently searched book stores and
catalogues and added, volume by volume,
such important items as Euclid’s Elementa
Geometriae ( Ratdolt, 148 d ), William
Gilbert’s great work on the magnet, De
Magnete ( London, 1600), a geography by
Strabo ( Venice, 147 d ), Barba’s Arte de los
Metales ( Madrid, 1770), and other works
by Gesner, Borelli, Dana, and Montalbano—
luminaries in the history of mineralogy
and crystallography.
Left, Woodcut from De Re Metallica
by Georgius Agricola. 1912 translation
by Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover
Right, Detail of an engraving from Mundus
Subterraneus by Athanasius Kircher.
Amstelodami, apud J. Janssonium
& E. Weyerstraten, 1665
4 | claremont university consortium
Special Collections
 e Special Collections of the Claremont
Colleges Library is a very distinguished
feature of our library and our collections
that sets us apart from other liberal arts
college libraries. We hold more than
170,000 volumes and 9,000 linear feet
of manuscripts, papers, and files.  e
collections at Honnold/ Mudd feature
a variety of rare, unique, valuable, and
esoteric research materials, including
historical records of  e Claremont Colleges,
the Philbrick Library of  eatre History,
the Oxford Collection on the University
and city of Oxford, the Bodman Renaissance
Collection, the Irving Wallace Archive,
and several large collections of Western
Americana and Californiana. Other
strengths are in 19th & d 0th century
English and American literature including
significant author manuscript holdings,
medieval and renaissance manuscripts,
incunabula, eighteenth century English
imprints, hymnology and opera, California
fine printing, early maps and atlases, and
local Claremont history. Our experienced
librarians work closely with faculty and their
classes to introduce them to these valuable
primary resources for use in their research.
Students in theatre design, California
history, linguistics, education, and music
have used our collections as the basis
of their coursework and our materials are
regularly part of various exhibits that are
on display in either Honnold/ Mudd Library
or elsewhere on our Colleges’ campuses.
 e Carruthers Collection on the history
of aviation, approximately 4,000 items,
presented to Claremont McKenna College
in 1950 by the Rev. and Mrs. John F. B.
Carruthers.  is diverse collection includes
books, prints and photographs, broadsides,
maps, sheet music, programs, technical
reports, and correspondence with and
about aviators.
Rev. Carruthers collected information about
early experiments with flight, imaginary or
real, from Leonardo to the uses of airplanes
for combat during World War I. A limited
edition from the Chiswick Press,  e British
King Who Tried to Fly… ( 1919), gives
extracts from old chronicles and histories
relating to Bladud, ninth king of England.
Materials on the Wright brothers include
a toy butterfly purported to have inspired
their interest in flight, and a piece of the
1903 Kitty Hawk hangar; materials on
Charles A. Lindbergh include two metal
pieces from the “ Spirit of St. Louis” and
sound recordings of his 19 d 7 visit to
Washington, DC, upon his return from
Paris. Pioneering women aviators in the
collection include “ Pancho” Barnes,
Amelia Earhart, and Matilde Moisant.
Of note in the Collection is the first book
on ballooning, L’Art de Voyager dans les
Airs, ou Les Ballons ( Paris, 1784), which
depicts the ascension of a hot air balloon
at Versailles for Louis XVI and Marie
Antoinette.
Left, Mongolfier balloon ascension, 1784
Right, Fantastical aerial navigator, 1800s
 e William W. Clary Oxford Collection
encompasses the world of Oxford University
and its colleges, the city of Oxford, its men
and women, and their influence on the
outside world. Mr. Clary believed “ that
the importance of Oxford as an educational
institution and the similarity of our plan of
organization at Claremont to that of Oxford
ought to make a study of Oxford's history
and methods of direct and immediate value
to us.” It was his desire that the collection
be used for active reading and study; and by
the very fact of bringing books together on
the subject of Oxford, that the whole would
be of greater use to students and scholars
than the scattered parts.
 e collection has grown to include
a wealth of material on the history and
governance of Oxford University, its system
of education, Oxford reforms, and student
life. Literature, poetry, prose, and drama
which relate to the University, as well as
biographies of prominent Oxford men
and women may be found in the collection.
 ere are books on philosophy, religion,
and science at Oxford from the 13th
century to present times.  e works of John
Wesley and the Methodist and Tractarian
Movements are well represented.
 ough developed as a useful rather than
antiquarian collection, there are many rare
items.  ese include incunabula relating to
Medieval philosophy; 16th century imprints
of the Oxford University Press; 17th– 19th
century printed broadsides; Daniel Press
publications; first editions of noted writers;
18th century undergraduate manuscript
notebooks of Blackstone’s lectures on the
law; and books whose bindings, illustrations,
inscriptions, or provenance confer
special value.
Left, William Webb Clary,
Pomona College ’ 39
Right, The Radcliffe Library from Views
of all the colleges, halls, and public
buildings in the university and city of
Oxford , Oxford: Munday and Slatter,
Herald- Office, [ 1824?]
the claremont colleges library | 7
 e Library features five meeting rooms
that can accommodate a variety of meeting
sizes, styles, and purposes as well as three
fully functional instructional labs for
in person, classroom style instruction.
 ese range from the 16 workstation Keck
Learning Room to the d 0 person, informal
Keck d Learning Room to the brand new
6 workstation GIS & Quantitative
Sciences lab.
Seymour Concert Series
Claremont Colleges Under Water Robotics Club
 e internationally acclaimed women’s
vocal quartet Anonymous 4 performed
as part of the Library’s Seymour Concert
Series, co- sponsored with Pomona College’s
Endicott R. Hanson and Alice Schulz
Hanson Fund and the Claremont Colleges
Library’s Laurence Seymour Memorial Fund.
 e group performed to a full house of 400
students, faculty, and staff who enjoyed a
concert of sacred American music and early
British sacred polyphony.  e following day,
the group were guest speakers in a music
class at Pomona College and at a panel
discussion at Scripps College.
 e Library revived the Seymour Lecture
Series with a series of lectures by Christian
Goodwillie, the Curator of Special Colleges
and Archives at Hamilton College. He
presented “ Engravers, Printers and Pirates
of Note: Tunebooks in the Early Republic,”
to d 5 students and faculty as part of the
Richard Loucks Memorial Lecture at Pomona
College and also presented “ Pleasure Tunes
My Tongue: Early American Sacred Music
Imprints and the Claremont College
Library Collection” to a group of 30 faculty
and students. His Library presentation
can be viewed on the Claremont Colleges
Digital Library.
Seymour Lecture Series
 e Harvey Mudd College Radio Operated
Vehicle ( ROV) Club is a team of Harvey
Mudd and other Claremont Colleges
Students who are constructing a ROV
to compete in the Marine Advanced
Technology Education ( MATE) Radio
Operated Vehicle ( ROV) competition, an
annual competition hosted by the Advanced
Technology Education Center.  e club is
using meeting space in the Honnold/ Mudd
Library to coordinate their activities and
to construct their vehicle. Testing is done
at a campus pool, not in the Library! In
addition to the traditional student uses of
the building ( study, socialize, do research,
consult librarians), this is good example
of intercollegiate student groups who choose
to use Library space for non- traditional
academic pursuits.
Claremont Colleges Under Water Robotics
Club is meeting weekly in the Library and
building their entry for the 2011 MATE ROV
international competition
6 | claremont university consortium
Events Unique Services
Honnold Digital Recording Studio
 e newly constructed Honnold Digital Recording Studio
features a satellite uplink facility that allows for live or recorded
interviews of faculty and students at the Colleges as well as
promotional and marketing pieces for the Colleges or the
Consortium. Interviews with faculty have been broadcast live
on CNN, MSNBC, CSPAN, as well as other national and
international outlets.
Connection
A new one stop shop for student services at CUC, Connection
combines the functions and staff of the Claremont Card Center,
the Copy Center and other units in the CUC Enterprise Services
division. A variety of services are offered including copying,
printing, binding, postal services, and associated student
oriented services.
Honnold Café
 e Honnold Café is located near the south entrance to
Honnold Mudd Library.  e Honnold Café provides the
students, faculty and staff of the Claremont Colleges, with
a warm relaxing environment in which to enjoy gourmet
coffee and espresso based beverages, as well as delicious
food and pastries.
Press Room
 e First Floor Press Room of the Honnold Library, managed
by Harvey Mudd Professor of Literature Jeff Groves, features
four 19th century printing presses including a Columbian
and a Reliance hand press that are used for courses of up to
10 students each semester. In d 009, the Press Room doubled
in square footage allowing the space to be properly divided
into an “ ink side”, where the presses stand, and a “ paper side”,
where cutting, folding,
collating, binding, and
sorting take place.  e room
continues to be shared with
Special Collections, which
has its archival- box building
equipment on the south side
of the room, allowing the
two services to benefit from
shared equipment.
the claremont colleges 8 | claremont university consortium library | 9
Salaries
Salaries and Benefits $ 4,315,161
Operations
Facilities Assessment $ 1,307, d 3 d
Operating Expenses $ 506,194
Information Technology Assessment $ 464,047
Human Resources Assessment $ 78,1 d d
Materials
Electronic Resources $ d , d 00,183
Books $ 49 d ,578
Access and Discovery $ 4 d 6,901
Print Journals $ 164,193
Storage Assessment $ 147,409
Gifts and Endowed Funds ( est) $ 906, d d 8
Total Library Expenditures $ 11,008,248
d 010/ 11 Fiscal Year budget Service & Collections Statistics
' % % ( - ' % % ) ' % % ) - ' % % * ' % % * - ' % & %
Academic Year Academic Year Academic Year
Collections
Total print volumes added this year 36,540 31,347 d 5,435
Books purchased 18,860 d 6,680 11,099
E- Books purchased 7,051 41,358 d 6,765
Bibliographic Record Count 1,505,000 1,58 d ,000 1,6 d 9,663
Government Documents 819,685 750,000 740,000
Online Journals received by purchase 16,881 d d ,434 17, d 47
Total Collection Size 2,641,335 2,618,747 2,665,894
Services
Interlibrary Book Loans to Others d 1,599 d 8,917 d 7,948
Interlibrary Article Loans to Others 3,117 3,6 d 7 d , d 17
Total ILL to Others d 4,716 3 d ,544 30,165
Interlibrary Book Loans Received d 4,690 d 8,519 d 8,99 d
Interlibrary Article Loans Received 6,914 8,011 10,044
Total ILL Received 31,604 36,530 39,036
Circulation
Circulation— Students 75,03 d 101,7 d 8 108,508
Circulation— Faculty 15,845 14,407 16,659
Circulation— Others 9,097 9,4 d 0 11,344
Circulation— Total 99,974 125,555 136,511
Assistance
Reference transactions ( typical week) 1159 1894 107 d
Group Transactions d 87 461 378
Gate Count ( typical week) 5,075 5,885 7,447
Hours Open ( typical week) 109 109 109
User Community
Total Fall FTE Enrollment 6,399 6,615 6,699
Graduate Fall FTE Enrollment 1,1 d 6 1,193 1, d 61
Total Fall FTE Faculty 731 754 71 d
Total Library Expenditures $ 9,878,270 $ 10,316,895 $ 10,102,018
Staff
Librarians d 8 d 6 18
Librarian Vacancies 0 0 1 d
Other Professionals FTE 9 1 d
Support Staff FTE 49 46 36
Staff Total FTE 86 73 68
Library Statistics
Gifts and Endowed Funds ( est)  
Storage Assessment  
Print Journals  
Books  
Access and Discovery  
Electronic Resources   
Operations
Salaries
Salaries and
Benefits   
Human Resources Assessment  
Information Technology Assessment  
Operating Expenses  
Facilities Assessment   
Materials
the claremont colleges 10 | claremont university consortium library | 11
Recent Accomplishments
Sheree Fu recently authored a
chapter in the book, Gaming in
Academic Libraries, edited by
Amy Harris and Scott E. Rice and
published by ACRL. Her chapter
described the weekly Game Nights
held at  e Libraries of the Claremont
Colleges that was designed as a
way to market the library as a social
space to the user community.  e
successful programming led to
well- attended events by students
and library staff, as well as faculty
and their families.
Lisa Crane recently published
a chapter in the book, Frugal
Librarian, edited by Carol
Smallwood and published by ALA
Editions. Lisa’s chapter described a
model she developemtn to estimate
the cost factors associated with
digitization projects.  is case study
included variables such as material
types and funding sources, data
collection methods, and formulas
and calculations for analysis.  is
model was marketed as being a
useful model for grant applications,
cost allocations, and budgeting for
digital project coordinators and
digital library projects.
Sheree Fu
Research & Development Librarian
Lisa Crane
Western Americana Manuscripts Librarian, Special Collections
Holly Gardinier
Arts & Humanities Collections Librarian
Jason Price
Head of Collections & Acquisitions
Jason Price recently co- authored with
Cindi Trainor, Rethinking Library
Linking: Breathing New Life into
OpenURL, a book in the Library
Technology Reports series published
by ALA Techsource.  e report aimed
to answer the question, “ How do we
improve linking functionality and
accuracy for our users?” Price and
Trainor leveraged data collected in an
evaluation project involving librarians,
interlibrary loan, and technical
services staff at Claremont to identify causes of link failure and
identify a prioritized list of actionable tasks that will improve link
quality. It is unique in its analysis of the proportion of failures
caused by source database, knowledgebase provider, and content
host across document types, and provides access to hundreds of
specific examples that can be used to troubleshoot and improve
this important tool.
Holly Gardinier’s entry on Music
Librarianship is part of the 7- volume,
third edition, of the Encyclopedia
of Library and Information
Sciences, published by CRC Press.
It provides an overview of the field
of music librarianship including
its historical evolution; types of
music libraries across the world;
related professional organizations;
career opportunities; cataloging,
preserving, and acquiring music
materials in electronic, print, and
audio formats; access to ethnic
and world music collections, and
future challenges in the digital
environment.
John McDonald
Director, Bibliographic
& Information Management;
Faculty Relations
Administration
Librarians
Librarians
Jason Price
Head, Collections
& Acquisitions
Linda Gunter
Head, Access Services
Carrie Marsh
Head, Special Collections
Sam Kome
Head, Research
& Development
Allegra Gonzalez
Head, Digital Initiatives
Kimberly Franklin
Head, Reference Services
Gale Burrow
Instruction Coordinator
Joyce Sedore
Head, Resource Description
Mary Martin
GIS & Data Services
& Social Sciences Collections
Librarian
Holly Gardinier
Arts & Humanities
Collections Librarian
Alex Chappell
Arts & Women’s Studies
Librarian
Adam Rosencranz
History & Philosophy
Librarian
Cindy Snyder
Sociology Librarian
& Services Desk Manager
Meg Garrett
Psychology & Media Studies
Librarian
Grace Chen
Asian Studies Librarian
Judy Moser
Special Collections
Original Cataloging
Sheree Fu
Research & Development
Librarian
Lisa Crane
Western American
Manuscripts Librarian
Chris Jones
Digital Production Librarian
Honnold/ Mudd Library
800 N. Dartmouth Avenue
Claremont CA 91711- 3991
( 909) 6 d 1- 8014
http:// libraries. claremont. edu/
cuc TCCl d / 11