Campus libraries
There are seven major campus information sources serving the needs of nurses and nursing students:
Del E. Webb Memorial Library is the largest academic library on campus serving the needs of all students in all disciplines. It has a monographic and media collection of over 250 thousand, and a journal collection in full-text of over 10 thousand titles. It offers a combined catalog of the major library collections on campus and provides library support to all the schools through a library liaison program where each of seven librarians is assigned to a specific school. Nelia Wurangian-Caan serves as liaison to the School of Nursing.
Jesse Medical Library & Information Center is the largest clinical resource on campus. Located on the 2nd floor of the Coleman pavilion, the Center provides information support and services to the LLU Medical Center clinicians as well as to University students, offering high quality clinical collection that is accessible through the University library's online public access catalog. The Jesse Library is named in honor of its donors, Dr. and Mrs. Claran H. Jesse. Dr. Jesse is the founding chair of the orthopaedic surgery department in the School of Medicine.
LLUSN Nursing Skills Laboratory offers a collection of skill building materials in various formats--video recordings, programmed instructional materials, computer software and simulations, 3-dimensional artifacts, etc. An extensive video recording collection is cataloged and accessible through the University library's online public access catalog. The collection is non-circulating and reserved only for in-house use, However some titles may have a circulating copy available from the Del E. Webb Library. Be sure to check the catalog holding locations.
Carolyn and Ralph Thompson Library of the Center for Christian Bioethics has a growing collection of over 2,000 books and twenty journals that is accessible through the University library's online public access catalog. Located on the 2nd floor of the Coleman Pavilion, the Library is open to clinicians and students doing serious research in bioethics, spiritual care, and wholeness.
Heritage Room, a special place in the Del E. Webb Library houses the University and Adventist current and historical resources, including an extensive collection of Ellen G. White's writings. This is a good place to visit and learn about Adventist history and historical artifacts. Mostly rare and unique in nature, the collection is held under controlled environment and restricted to in-house use only. Certain materials in digitized format are accessible on the Library's web site.
Jerry L. Pettis VA Memorial Hospital maintains a clinical library serving the Hospital's clinical staff. It offers library service and resources supporting the continuing education for nurses and other clinical staff and is open to other health students and clinicians in the community.
East Campus Library is the most recent addition to the LLU system of libraries. It features a beginning collection that is primarily in orthopedic medicine, accessible through the University library's online public access catalog. Located on the east campus complex, the library is open to the University community, including nurses and nursing students.