The ACU Library is at the heart of faculty and student life at ACU, hosting the ACU community, and connecting it to the positive change that we want to see throughout the world.

The library is the university’s hub for scholarly Christian communication, innovative technology, and interdisciplinary creativity.

The ACU Library is composed of five areas:

Information Services advances the collection and interpretation of scholarly and professional information resources for reading, research, and writing. We support faculty, staff, students, and alumni through provision of information resources and instructional services that provide opportunities for comprehensive learning to strengthen critical thinking and information retrieval skills, building a foundation for self-directed and lifelong learning.

Special Collections and Archives acquires and promotes historical materials and is the repository of first choice for researchers seeking resources related to the Stone-Campbell Movement and Churches of Christ. We support faculty, staff, students, and alumni through encounters with their Christian heritage.

The Adams Center for Teaching and Learning promotes a life-long learning culture among faculty at ACU where teaching is highly valued. It focuses on all teaching environments, both face-to-face and online. We support faculty and students through enriching events and expert guidance about the theory and practice of teaching and learning.

The Learning Studio helps students and faculty to develop skills of digital creativity, media fluency, and collaborative problem solving that are essential to careers in the 21st century. We support faculty, staff, and students through collaborative spaces and creation of digital images and video.

Educational Technology and the Innovation Foundry support the design and development of academic spaces, digital tools, and online platforms for research and scholarship at ACU.

Through the ACU Maker Lab and other innovative initiatives, we help faculty, staff, and students design and make tangible products for learning and service in the world.

To find out more about the ACU Library, visit our site on ACU.edu

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Submissions from 2024

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How’d They Make That?: Analyzing the Ingredients that Produce a Google Ngram Chart, Laura Baker

Submissions from 2023

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The 10 Minute Hero: Quick Wins for GovInfo Librarians, Laura Baker

Submissions from 2022

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Docs for Digital Humanities: An Example That Could Launch New Possibilities, Laura Baker

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Review of A Time to Heal: Missionary Nurses in Churches of Christ, Southeastern Nigeria (1953-1967). by Martha E. Farrar Highfield, McGarvey Ice

Submissions from 2021

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The Machiavellian GovPub Librarian: The Value of Internal Promotion aka How a Politically Unsavvy Librarian Learned the Necessity of Promoting to Colleagues, Laura Baker

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Year in Review 2020-2021, Margarett and Herman Brown Library

Submissions from 2020

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To Frame or Not To Frame: Creating a Metaliteracy Course for Online Ed.D. Students, Melissa D. Atkinson

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No IR? No Problem: The Resourceful Librarian’s Guide to Archiving Digitized Government Publications with the Internet Archive, Laura Baker

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Review of Churches of Christ in Oklahoma: A History. By W. David Baird, McGarvey Ice

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Year in Review 2019-2020, Margarett and Herman Brown Library

Submissions from 2019

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The Relationship Between Metaliteracy Pretest, Posttest, and Metacognitive Strategies for Library Research Skills Scale: Creating a Metaliteracy Course for Online Ed.D. Students, Melissa D. Atkinson

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With Quiet Diligence: How Claude Elbert Spencer Formed an Archival Tradition in the ­Stone-Campbell Movement, McGarvey Ice

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Year in Review 2018-2019, Margarett and Herman Brown Library

Submissions from 2018

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Learning in the age of abundance (《过剩时代的学习》), Berlin Fang

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David Lipscomb on Rebaptism: Contexts of a Controversy, McGarvey Ice

Submissions from 2017

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A Descriptive Guide to Missions-Related Archival Collections in the Center for Restoration Studies, Brady Kal Cox and McGarvey Ice

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Year in Review 2016-2017, Margarett and Herman Brown Library

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Students with Learning Disabilities During Transition from High School to College: Disclosure Behaviors, Beliefs of Needs, and Autonomous Regulation as Predictors of Intent to Use Accommodations, J. Scott Self

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Impact of mobile technology on student attitudes, engagement, and learning, Jennifer Shewmaker and Houston Heflin

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From "I Want To Hold Your Hand" to "Promiscuous": Sexual Stereotypes in Popular Music Lyrics, 1060-2008, Jennifer Shewmaker, Andrew P. Smiler, and Brittany Hearon

Submissions from 2016

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How the Pamuks Read (《帕慕克们怎样读书》, Berlin Fang

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Applications of BePress Digital Commons in Special Collections: Initial Experiences at Abilene Christian University, McGarvey Ice

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Martha's Gift to Posterity: One Pulpit's Remarkable Story, McGarvey Ice

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"O, Lord, Hear the Cries and See the Tears of the Baptists": Garner McConnico Meets Alexander Campbell, McGarvey Ice

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Sensitivity, Blessing and Doxology: Archival Practice as Spiritual Discipline, McGarvey Ice