When you find a book you are interested in, you can request that it be mailed to you by filling out our Distance Learner Book Delivery Request Form. To learn more about MCC Libraries Book Delivery Service visit our Finding & Borrowing Books: a guide for distance learners web page.

You can renew your checked out materials online. Open the online library catalog. Click on Personal Record. In the UW-W ID Barcode window, enter the 7-digit middle section of your UW-W ID number. Enter your last name. Click the Login button. The system will display a list of titles you have checked out. Check the Renew? box for the title(s) you want to renew.

Your ACC identification card (ID) is also your Library card. You can obtain an ACC ID card from Campus Police in Room M2630. You will need this card to check materials out of the Library, view audio/visual materials, check out laptops to be used in the Library and to check out reserve items.

You need a College Picture ID with a Library Barcode on the back. Borrowing privileges can be viewed at Library Services.

The library has laptop computers available for students for 4-hour checkout periods for in-library use only. You will need both a current UW-Whitewater student ID and a state ID such as a driver's license. Laptop computers are also available for overnight checkout by UW-Whitewater faculty and teaching academic staff only.

Reserve materials are to be used in the library for the most part. However, some reserve materials may be checked out according to the instructor's stipulations. For some materials that may be overnight or weekend checkout. Others may be a week or a semester. Current issues of periodicals may not be checked out. Older issues (located under the display shelf) may be checked out for one week. Software tutorial videos and CD-ROMs may be checked out for one week.

According to Manual for Assessing the Quality of Health Sciences Libraries in Hospitals (Albany: New York State Library, 1983), a library should, at a minimum, have 150 books in its collection and purchase 30 titles annually. Keep in mind that these numbers rise as the size of the hospital rises and that the manual is 13 years out of date. Crawford and Flower suggested that "What is collected depends entirely on the purposes of the organization..

Service is provided directly by a regional or subregional library of the NLS network. A list of libraries is available. Some public libraries do have small collections of NLS-produced talking books for eligible users. Check with the regional library in your state to determine if there is a talking-book collection at a public library near you.

The OSU Libraries own approximately 6 million volumes, and subscribe to approximately 35,000 serial titles.

Finding fiction books in the library for simple recreational reading isn't as easy as just walking to a shelf and looking for a specific "section". However there are many ways someone can go about using the various tools the library has to offer to find a fiction book that interests them. Visit the webpage available at http://www.lib.lsu.edu/virtual/fiction/fiction.html. That page contains a fairly in-depth look at the many ways a patron can get their hands on the fiction book of their choice.

Yes. Flora Vista has a fully-stocked library/media center that is available to kindergarten - sixth grade. Classes visit the library/media center each week to check out books. Students also have access to the Boost Program, a reading program available to help students improve their reading skills. There is a computer lab available for class or group work.

The Library of Congress is a research library, and books are used only on the premises by members of the public. Anyone over high school age may use the collections. All patrons using the Library's reading rooms and/or collections must have a user card with a photo on it. User cards can be obtained at the reader registration station in Room LM140 of the Madison Building by presenting a driver's license or passport and completing a brief self- registration process.

The next volume of ReelViews is due out in the summer of 2005. It will contain about 100 new reviews and some content that is not available on the website (features on director's editions on DVD, and a large collection of easter eggs, along with my opinions of each). My hope is to get a novel published a year or two after, but it's difficult to find the time to write it.

At last report a decade ago, L'Engle was over halfway through her manuscript for a new book about Meg Murry O'Keefe at age 50-something. (Earlier reports said that Meg was 40-something in the book.) The working title is The Eye Begins to See. Due to L'Engle's health problems, this book was apparently never completed.

Coming up very soon are the books on Steely Dan, PJ Harvey, and A Tribe Called Quest. After that we'll have a little summer break before unleashing a few more books in September - U2, Belle & Sebastian, and a couple of others.

A NIACC ID or Borrower Card is necessary to check out materials. Non-student users should stop at the Circulation Desk to have their card from a participating library activated before checking out materials for the first time.

By using Voyager, the online catalog. Voyager will tell you what books, government documents, conference proceedings, and technical reports the library owns. Voyager will also show you if materials are available in the library, and where they are located. If an item is charged (checked out to another library user), Voyager will tell you when it is due back in the library. [Back to Top]

To assist you with requesting items from our collection, we've prepared a set of Voyager Online Instructions which provide step-by-step directions on how to access Voyager and do a search. Daytona Beach students can read the Voyager Online Instructions here. After completing a Voyager search, Daytona Beach students can come to the library to locate the materials they identified in Voyager. Worldwide students can request certain materials be sent to them.

No. Audio books, video tapes, computer programs, "new" (current year purchase) books are not exchanged between libraries. Current bestsellers are among materials that cannot be borrowed from other libraries.

No, I am sorry I cannot. Many times, I do not own the book you want or I only have one copy that is used to continue research for this site. I am not a book publisher nor a published author. I do not have access to free books. I purchase the books I use or borrow them from my local library.

The library gratefully accepts donations of books and audio-visual materials. Donations are reviewed by library staff and are either added to the library's collection or offered for sale at the Library Book Sale, generally held in the spring. Proceeds from the book sales are used to support the collections and services of the library. Gifts may be dropped off at any time at the library's Technical Processing Department.

The Library is a collection of collections. While the main emphasis is on books, the Library also subscribes to more than 2,500 periodicals and newspapers, and provides electronic access to tens of thousands of others; provides access to dozens of over a hundred databases; has thousands of audio and video recordings; houses several special collections; receives U.S. and California State government publications and legal materials; and collects maps, curriculum materials, and juvenile books.

Books can be found on all four floors of the library. The main book collection is located on the third and fourth floor. Books in this collection can be checked out. Currently, any book beginning with a call number between A and H is on the third floor. Books with call numbers between J and Z are on the fourth floor. Reference books (dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc.), found on the second floor, do not circulate.

Books are checked out for a month. You will get a due date slip when you check out so that you will know when items are due back.

Check out materials at the Circulation Desk in the second floor of the library and show them your Seattle University ID card. The Law Library catalog is available online. The 3rd and 4th floor treatise collection, recreational reading collection, and Walkover collection material can be checked out for 90 days. Reserve collection material can be checked out for 3 days.

Books on tape and CD are a recent addition to the library's collection. They are shelved in the Browsing section on the Main Level. For more information, please ask at the Reference Desk.

The Browsing section on the Main Level displays a variety of new fiction and non-fiction books selected for pleasure reading. For more information, please ask at the Reference Desk.

The Children's Collection, located on Level 5, is a research collection for library and education students. While many patrons do check out these books for their children to read, the collection is not meant to be a children's library.