Library Overview
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Welcome to the Ithaca College Library. Our mission is to enhance teaching and learning at Ithaca College through the provision of flexible, diverse, and user-centered information services and resources. The library staff works to create an organization that is receptive to innovation, recognized for efficient management, and focused on continuous improvement in our services, resources, and facility. To that end, we value your comments--user feedback is reviewed and frequently results in service/ resource enhancements. I encourage you to take full advantage of the services and resources we offer.
Lisabeth Chabot, |
FACILITY
- Four Floors with Five Service Points: Circulation/Reserve/Interlibrary Loan and Reference (2nd/Main Floor), Multimedia and Music (3rd Floor), Archives (5th Floor)
- Wireless Connectivity on All Floors
- Collaborative Study Rooms (5th Floor)
- 60 PCs available (including 18 circulating wireless laptops) with the College's standard lab software suite
- Networked Scanning and Printing
- Microform and Microfilm Reader with Digital Capture Functionality
- Library Instruction Classroom with SmartBoard
SERVICES
- Library is open more than 112 hours per week. Extended hours during exam periods
- Members of the College community have 24/7 access to online resources
- IM/Chat Service for Reference and Circulation/Interlibrary Loan/Reserves
- Digital Audio Reserves for Several Courses (160,000 items on DAR in 2005/06)
- Print and Electronic Course Reserves
- Illiad Automated Interlibrary Loan - Requested Articles delivered via email
- "Talk Back" - Online submission of user questions & library staff responses
- Targeted reference and library instruction services for academic programs and majors provided by ten Liaison Librarians
- "Research by Subject" Portal to facilitate access to targeted information resources for each academic major/program
- Library FAQs - Answers to Your "How To" questions
- Recommend a Purchase
- Virtual Reference Desk links to basic reference sources
RESOURCES
- A 385,000 volume collection. Approximately 6,300 titles are added each year
- 44,100 electronic books span several academic subject areas
- 150 Full-Text Databases provide access to scholarly communication, images, and audio recordings
- 33,000 multimedia materials, including an extensive collection of DVDs
- 2,500 individual serial subscriptions (print and online)
- More than 25,000 serials in full-text databases
- College Archives with Rod Serling Collection and browsable online access to the historical issues of the Ithacan, the College newspaper
- Current literature collection for leisure reading
- Noodlebib software for online bibliography formatting/citation creation
- 35 Staff Members and 65 Student Assistants
