The main floor of the Blanche Skiff Ross Memorial Library provides areas for individual study, group study, class instruction, and assistance from the librarians and other staff. Quiet study areas are found throughout all levels of the Library. On the second floor, the Conference Room and the Study Lounge are available for study and meeting space. There are 20 computers available for student use, in addition to scanners and a print release station, providing both color and black and white printing.
The Library has over 55,000 items available for student access. The collections are detailed by location:
- Main Floor: Fiction, Manga, and graphic novels, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and popular movies and audio-visual cabinet collections
- Circulation Desk: Textbook and faculty reserves, graphing calculators, umbrellas, bicycles and hammocks
- Second Floor: Stacks, reference, and oversized collections • Lower Level: Education and juvenile collections
The Mac Lab is available for meetings and study space when not scheduled for classroom use. There are 15 devices available within the Library. These devices cannot be removed from the Library. Additionally, in the lab, there are five large-screen televisions for group presentations and screen sharing.
The Library’s webpage provides access to your Library account; searching the Library and MOBIUS catalogs; access more than 60 research databases (EBSCO, Gale, JSTOR, and more); 250,000 academic eBooks; 13,000 OverDrive eBooks and audiobooks; streaming music and video resources, and access to the print and digital magazine collections. You may also access lists of items available in the Textbook Reserve and Faculty Reserve Collections.
The lower level of the Library houses the Jann Rudd Weitzel Education Lab, the Library’s Content Creation Zone, and additional study areas.
Your Comet Card is your Library Card. It is required when checking out Library materials or gaining access to the building. Library books are checked out for 28 days, DVD/Blu-ray discs for ten days and Reserve materials checkout times vary from two hours to three days, based on the individual faculty member’s specifications. Reserve materials are used at the discretion of the instructor who puts them on reserve for a class. The Textbook Reserve Collection’s materials are checked out for two hours at a time and in Library use only. Overdue reserve materials are charged at the rate of $.25/hour.
Drinks must be contained in covered, non-spill containers. The Second Floor Study Lounge is the only location in the Library where food is permitted.
If a student needs a book that is not available in the Ross Library, the student may complete an online request to obtain the book from another library in the MOBIUS Consortium. If the student needs an article or a book not found in the MOBIUS system, it can be requested online through the Ross Library’s interlibrary loan service.
Unauthorized removal of Library material from the Library is a violation of the Honor Code. If a Library item is damaged or lost, the responsible student will be charged for replacing the item plus a processing fee. If an item from another library is damaged or lost, the student is responsible for the replacement cost and processing fee. Theft of Library material is illegal and may be reported to the proper authorities. Unpaid fees may result in a block on the release of the student’s academic record.