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The Librarytc
The Library
The University
Library serves as the learning resource center for the Gannon community. Here
the books, periodicals, electronic resources, and other library materials which
support the courses being taught across the University’s curriculum are acquired
and made available. Beyond accommodating immediate instructional and research
needs, the library presents material and provides service to encourage reading
as a lifelong means to personal growth and development.
Built in 1973, the Msgr. Wilfrid J. Nash Library honors the second president of
the University. It can house over 300,000 volumes and seat nearly 1,000 people.
There are three lecture rooms, lounges, group study rooms, a media center with
audiovisual playback, a cyber café, archives, internet computers, a “high tech”
computer lab, and a curriculum library for the School of Education.
In addition, the holdings include over 260,000 volumes and nearly 600 current
periodicals. Coffee and cappuccino are available for purchase in the Cyber Café.
The library recently added wireless service, and eighteen laptops are available
from the circulation desk for use by students anywhere in the building. On-line
databases such as ACM Digital Library, Medline, CINAHL, Lexis-Nexis, First
Search, EbscoHost, ERIC, PsychInfo, PsychArticles, Strategian, Sport Discus,
Business Source, Health Source, MLA International Bibliography, ECO, GPO,
WorldCat, and Digital Dissertations provide access to over 14,000 full-text
journals. The Library’s fully automated on-line catalog of the Library holdings
is accessible by Web as well as in the library.
The OCLC database provides access to nearly 20 million titles via interlibrary
loan. University students and faculty also have access to the resources offered
by neighboring public and university libraries.
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