Cowles Library Drake University

Cowles has 734 DVDs, 1048 videotapes, 69 CD-ROMs, and 242 audio CDs ranging from popular to classical music. Included are various popular and award winning movies, documentaries and educational films.

Unless marked Reserve or Media Storage, media materials are shelved in the Electronic Resouce Collection along the north wall of the Information Commons area, first floor, west side. DVDs and videotapes can be checked out for two days by students and for one week by faculty and staff. Audio CDs can be checked out for one week.

Media materials are listed in the online catalog and can be searched for by title, subject and keyword. To look specifically for media material, change the "type" dropdown box to Audio CD, DVD or Videotape on the search form. Law Library materials use the types Circulating Audio Cassette, Circulating DVD, etc. By leaving the search form empty, the catalog will pull up all entries under that specific type of material.

Cowles Library encourages adding media materials to its collection. The purchase policy for media materials can be found in our policy section under Collection Development.