The
Frohring Library moved into renovated facilities in 1999, thanks
to a generous donation from the Paul and Maxine Frohring Foundation,
and has further increased its spaces in the following years.
This
professionally run facility offers students and faculty direct
access to its collections. There are four study
rooms, a multimedia lab and a media room where students and faculty
with personal laptop computers can access a wide range of research
tools and
resources that support the university's liberal arts curriculum.
The
Library's current collection of 25,000 items includes monographs,
hard-copy journals, newspapers, videos, DVDs
and CD-ROMs. Its electronic resource collection, available via
the Library portal throughout campus, consists of a growing number
of online databases, including current bibliographies (Bibliography
of History of Art and MLA International),
reference sources (Encyclopedia
Britannica, Oxford Reference On-line, Grove
Dictionary of Art and
Grove Dictionary of Music), and full
text collections (Columbia
Granger's World of Poetry, Columbia
International Affairs On-line,
Ebsco's Academic Search Complete, Business
Source Premier, Communication
and Mass Media Complete, JSTOR, Project
Muse, Lexis Nexis, Westlaw
International).
Face
to face research and information services are provided by a Reference
Librarian and an Information Technology
Instructor. For distance users, digital reference services are
available via the Library Portal.
The
library is a charter member of AMICAL, the
American International Consortium of Academic Libraries, participates
with
its holdings in Worldcat and partners with Italian libraries for
document delivery and interlibrary loan services.
In
addition, John Cabot University has established agreements with
other educational and research institutions. JCU students may
browse the library of St.
John’s University, Rome Campus and the Centro
Studi Americani (Center for American Studies), both English
language libraries.