GRADUATE CATALOG • 2010-2011

Rising in three levels from the Cedar Crest hillside, the Cressman Library houses collections and services supporting the College’s commitment to a liberal arts education. The College is equipped for wireless Internet access. An outstanding feature of the building is the view from the reading area. The library terrace is accessible from steps on the east side of the building. The main level includes the reference and journal collections, microforms, an exhibition space that features changing art exhibits, and an information commons of 13 workstations. From these workstations, students have access to the online catalog, the Internet and full-text resources. The Marjorie Wright Miller Poet’s Corner houses the library’s collection of poetry by American women.

The library webpage is accessible at library.cedarcrest.edu. Registered students have off-campus access to indexes, abstracts and full-text resources through a proxy-server. Through the Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges, the Library is affiliated with the libraries of DeSales and Lehigh Universities and Lafayette, Muhlenberg and Moravian colleges. You must have a current Cedar Crest student picture ID to borrow directly from these libraries. A weekday delivery service makes it possible for our students to have access, through interlibrary loan, to over two million volumes in the combined collections of these institutions.

The library is also a member of the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Incorporated. PALCI enables the student to search and borrow from 70 private and public academic libraries in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and New Jersey through the EZ-borrow interface.

Once each semester, a five-part library workshop is given. Students are encouraged to attend in order to learn how to use the library’s resources to their optimum advantage. The SIRSI integrated library system supports the on-line catalog, circulation and acquisition services. The majority of staff offices are on the main level as are the lending and information services desks, enabling students to have immediate access to assistance.

The intermediate level houses the majority of the book collection, study carrels and tables, as well as the curriculum library, which contains a collection of juvenile fiction, non-fiction and K-12 textbooks. The terrace level houses the rest of the book collection, study carrels and tables, older print journals and the record and score/libretto collections. The Media Services/InterLibrary Loan office is also on this level. The media collection includes laser discs, videos, DVDs and music CDs that can be circulated or played in the adjacent audio/visual listening area.