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= Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) - Luria Library =

Modus operandi
The Luria Library, named after its benefactor Eli Luria, was built in 1989. The Luria Library offers a dynamic, innovative, and exciting place for students and responds to the learning styles of today’s student, thus helping them achieve their learning outcomes. A tag line was created in 2007, with faculty and student input, to help focus this new vision: Explore. Learn. Grow.The employees regularly explore new avenues to reach the students. Besides offering standard library services, the library also promotes cultural and academic activities by hosting student-centered events such as poetry readings and student club meetings and teaching opportunities.

The Collection
The Library currently has over 115,000 titles, 379 print periodical subscriptions, and 8 newspaper subscriptions. This collection includes 122,000 electronic books and subscriptions to 57 electronic databases, which provide access to over 12,000 full-text periodicals.

Resources
The 37,760 square foot Library has a 35-seat classroom for library instruction, eight group-study rooms, 51 desktop computers for student research and 50 portable computers, a ‘mobile librarian’ for students living in Isla Vista, and there is wireless capability throughout the building. There are 550 seats in the library, creating a dynamic environment that is optimal for research and idea generation.

Library Staff
One library director, three full-time librarians, one part-time librarian, and five classified staff members.

Commendations
The Luria Library was commended by the accrediting agency for its “extensive use of innovative communication technology (wikis, blogs, web pages, instant messaging) by library faculty to reach out and provide services to students; and enhancing student engagement through partnerships with faculty and the development of directed learning activities which extend classroom instruction into the tutorial environment.” (2010)