The John Spoor Broome Library is housed in an architecturally stunning building designed by the world famous British architect Lord Norman Foster. The library merges the campus mission architecture with a modern glass structure, combining both styles into a student–centered digital teaching library, located in the center of campus on . The library’s mission is to enhance CI’s mission through active collaboration with students, faculty, and staff in developing collections, services, information and computer literacy skills.

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📕 About Broome Library

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The library gives students access to a robust collection of over 100,000 bound books and more than 400,000 electronic books, over 20,000 electronic journals and newspapers, numerous databases, a comprehensive digital image collection, best sellers, CDs, DVDs, access to 70,000 streaming movies, and children’s books. The library has an active course reserves service that engages with faculty to promote the use of library collection for course materials, both print and electronic, to reduce the cost of required texts and course materials for students. The library also houses a number of interesting archival and special collections that can be used for original research. The Robert J. Lagomarsino Collection contains papers, photographs, furniture, and memorabilia relating to Lagomarsino’s years of political service as a California Senate member from 1961-1974 and as a United States Congressman from 1974-1992. Other archival and special collections include the University Archives, Jack O’Connell papers, Harold T (Bizz) Johnson Congressional papers, Camarillo State Hospital, Elmer “Gene” Lore, Sr. Collection, Michelle Serros Collection, Irene and Jorge Garcia Chicano Studies Collection, City of Oxnard Collection, and the Southern California Chicano Cultural Collection.

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General Weekday Hours

Library Hours
Building Hours	9am – 4pm
Chat Hours	10am – 3pm

For more hours see Library Hours page. Hours are often extended are various times during the semester.

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✅ Research Tools and Links

The library has digital resources and databases for research, including multimedia.

Find out more and explore the options available on the library research page.

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