Library

Jean Burr Smith Library

The Jean Burr Smith Library is a fully-automated learning resource center located on the main floor of Chapman Hall. The library provides a wide range of services to students, faculty, staff and members of the community.

The library's collection is composed of a broad selection of books, scholarly journals, popular magazines, newspapers, electronic databases and audiovisual materials for research and recreational use. In addition to circulating conventional items, the library also loans framed art prints.

Within the library, workstations provide access to the library catalog, electronic databases, the Internet, campus-networked resources and Microsoft Office Suite. Available within the library are microform reader-printers, low-vision readers, TV/VCR/DVD units, slide projectors, phonographs, typewriters, graphing calculators, and a coin-operated photocopier.

Library staff provide reference, circulation, interlibrary loan and computer assistance. Additionally, librarians provide library orientations, information literacy instruction and special classes at the request of faculty.

The library's well-designed website provides remote access to the library catalog, numerous full-text databases, Internet subject guides and research help. Interactive forms are provided to ask reference questions, make interlibrary loan or renewal requests and for faculty to request library instruction.