to the 250-seat Preus-Brandt Forum Theatre. It is located at 135 Chapel Lane. Pearson Library is staffed by nine employees: a library director, a collection development librarian, an information literacy librarian, an acquisitions librarian, an interlibrary loan librarian, a public services coordinator, and two circulation coordinators.
The former chicken coops of the Pederson Ranch were converted into classrooms by Jefferson A. Elmendorf, the same architect who worked with Orville Dahl in planning the campus and designed The Centrum and other campus buildings.
CLU's first LEED Certified building, the Swenson Center for the Social and Behavioral Sciences, opened in fall 2010.
=== Landmarks ===
Enormous Luther ("Gumby") is a 5,000-pound (2,300 kg) abstract bronze statue of Martin Luther at Falde Plaza, immediately in front of Pearson Library. It is 25 feet (7.6 m) tall and has a 12-foot (3.7 m) wide cast. It was a gift of the first graduating class at California Lutheran College in 1964 and is the work of Bernardus …
