King Library to offer new services for students

The Reta King Library in the center of campus provides a place to study, collaborate, read, and even enjoy a cup of Joe.

The library contains over 200,000 volumes of magazines, newspapers, journals and books. Not to mention, the library provides electronic access to millions of digital resources, including the Internet, online periodicals, and a wealth of proprietary databases not available through Google or any other search engine. In fact, the King Library is the largest purveyor of electronic information for academics in the Nebraska Panhandle. The ground level of the library houses a student computer lab and laptops are available for use in the library with the campus wireless network.

Recently, the library implemented a new online information resource, Ebsco Discovery Service (EDS) which provides our users with a “one-stop” research tool.  EDS, similar to Google, has a single-search box but, unlike Google, the results are all scholarly, peer-reviewed information.  Since most students are familiar with the Google platform and prefer using Google for their research needs, the intention was to duplicate the Google platform, while providing our users with scholarly information.

On the Library’s web page at www.csc.edu/library one can find first-class resources, including reference sources, self-driven library tutorials, off-campus library student services, subject guides, email connections for librarian assistance, hours of operation, and other general library information. If the library does not have materials students are requesting, the library can get them through interlibrary loan.  Also, if you prefer one-on-one reference service with a librarian, please call (308) 432-6271 (x6153) or stop by and one of the librarians will gladly make the necessary arrangements.  We are here to serve you.

Currently the Library, along with the college administration and student government, is in the planning process of implementing an Information Library Commons. This will address student’s needs by bringing together technology, content, and services in an upgraded physical space that provides an engaging environment different from that of a typical library.  Included in the library commons renovation (on the first floor) is the installation of a coffee Shop, a faculty learning center, several collaborative study rooms, a computer lab for students in an open area with windows looking onto the campus, and aesthetically pleasing quiet areas with interspersed lounge space.

We hope that your time at Chadron State College is not only an enjoyable, memorable, and fulfilling experience, but also a chapter in your life that prepares you for your future as a critical thinker, a life-long learner, and maybe even a scholar.  Enjoy your time at Chadron State College and we look forward to working with you in the library.  Again, welcome to Chadron State College from all of us at the library!

 

Milton Wolf, Library Director

Shawn Hartman, Assistant Library Director of Public Services