Campus Library

phone-313.664.7642 fax-313.664.7880

Location

The library is located in the Academic Resource Center at 301 Frederick Douglass Drive.

Hours for the academic semester are:

Main Library
Monday - Thursday 8:00 am - 10:00 pm
Friday 8:00 am - 6:00 pm
Saturday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sunday 1:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Color & Materials Library (located in 925 Taubman Center)

Monday - Wednesday: 10:00am – 9:00pm
Thursday and Friday: 10:00am – 6:00pm
Saturday and Sunday: CLOSED

CCS Library

The library has over 50,000 books, 275 periodicals, 55 electronic databases, and over 2,500 videos and DVDs, 90 percent of which deal with art and design. The college's digital database, Luna, is available online for study and classroom presentation; please see Academic Technology for training.

You will need your current CCS ID to check out books. Students may check out books for two weeks with one renewal if there are no holds placed on the book. Other materials have varying check out fines; please check at the circulation desk 313.664.7642.

Reference assistance is available at all times the library is open. Please contact Nancy Steffes (nsteffes@collegeforcreativestudies.edu) at 313.664.7803 Monday through Friday, 10am-6pm, or Robert Hyde (rhyde@collegeforcreativestudies.edu) at 313.664.7642 Monday through Thursday 4pm-11pm, Saturdays 10am- 5pm, and Sundays 1pm-7pm.

Color & Materials Library

The Color & Materials Library is located in room 925 in the A. Alfred Taubman Center..
Contact Holly Tylenda (htylenda@collegeforcreativestudies.edu) at 313.664.1638 with questions.

Visual Resources

Visual Resources, located in the CCS Library, manages the content of a digital image database with approximately 188,000 images for teaching and research purposes. The database can be accessed online. (http://luna.collegeforcreativestudies.edu/luna/servlet). Our software also allows the user to pull in images from Flickr, enabling personal collections to be included in classroom presentations. Faculty must obtain training and an official login from Academic Technologies (313.664.1500 or 313.664.1501) in order to obtain high resolution images online.

Reference Handouts

• Distinguishing Scholarly Journals from other Periodicals
• Electronic Databases
• How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography
• LUNA Image Database for Student Presentations
• Plagiarism
• MLA Format

CCS Library

• Color & Materials Library
• CCS online catalog
• View your library account

Other Library Links

• Detroit Public Library
• DIA
• Khan Academy
• Michigan Electronic Library
• Wayne State

CCS Databases

• AdForum (www.adforum.com) Login is required. Visit the ALL USERS section of Blackboard and click on Additional CCS Databases for more login information.
• Berg Fashion Library (www.bergfashionlibrary.com)
• Design & Applied Arts Index (www.csa.com)
  • User ID: CCSCAD
    Password: CCSCAD34
• DesigninForm (www.designinform.co.uk/database/index.php)
• Encyclopedia Britanica (britannica.com)

• WorldCat (www.worldcat.org)
• The Gnomon Workshop (ccs.gnomonlibrary.com)
• Greenr database (infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/lom_centercs?db=GRNR)
• Grove Art (www.groveart.com)
• Infotrac (infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/lom_centercs)
• Issues and Controversies (http://online.infobaselearning.com/Direct.aspx?aid=95719&pid=WE57)
• Issues and Controversies in American History (http://online.infobaselearning.com/Direct.aspx?aid=95719&pid=WE58)
• Material ConneXion online database
• Newsbank (infoweb.newsbank.com)
• Oxford English Dictionary (dictionary.oed.com/entrance.dtl)
• Salem Press - History (history.salempress.com)

• The Decades
  Great Lives from History
  Milestone Documents

• Sirs Renaissance (sks.sirs.com)
• Today's Science (http://online.infobaselearning.com/Direct.aspx?aid=95719&pid=WE59 )
• Wayne State University (www.wayne.edu)
• Wilson Web (hwwilsonweb.com) User ID: "ccslibrary" Password: "password"
• World Book (www.worldbookonline.com/?subacct=L1303 )

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