(FLHLB) Fletcher Library combines the service and values of a traditional library with a state-of-the-art approach of the information age.
The library’s collection, including more than 400,000 volumes, supports the West campus curriculum and features an extensive media collection. Group study rooms equipped with computers, projectors, individual study space, and a copy center are also available. The three-story library is open seven days a week during semester sessions.
The building includes the First-Year Success Center, the Student Success tutoring center, the New College Educational Technologies Center, the Writing Center and the Computing Commons (a computing center offering students 123 individual computer stations and free tutoring in software skills and web research). The building also houses the campus Starbucks.
Fletcher Library also houses the Information Systems Management Lab, which is located inside of the computing commons. With technicians on hand to offer technical support and provide on-the-spot assistance for software installations, troubleshooting and diagnostics, virus detection, and to answer general computing questions.
The Fletcher Library was dedicated in 1988 in honor of the Robert L. Fletcher family, whose gift of property resulted in an endowment for the perpetual support of the library. It was the first building completed on campus and soon after received an Honor Award, the top recognition of design excellence from the Southern Arizona Chapter of the American Institute of Architects