Ebooks just show up, right?  Books in our library just fly in on drones from Amazon, right?  They all land perfectly in order so that they’re easily found, right?  Well, not quite.  Even with vast resources available, every day we add more and more. The materials that students need, from journals to DVDs, are purchased and cataloged in the hopes that they will not only be found again in a large collection, but used and studied.  Much like organizing the thousands of photos that inevitably end up on your phone, our collection at SPC contains thousands upon thousands of resources and the library staff must put them in the proper order.  This allows anyone to find that one, solitary book on the Australian Dreamtime in a collection of over fifty thousand books.  When you see our carts ambling up and down the aisles as we carefully replace each returned book, know that we are doing it for you, the student, in order for you to find what you need once again.

Thanks to our library website, you can browse these collections from almost anywhere.  Interested in space?  Type in “space” on our site and hundreds of entries for all manner of space-related materials will appear.  If you have a student ID, you can read one of our eBooks right from your computer without even going to the library.  Just sign in and read!  Need a peer-reviewed journal for a research paper?  We have you covered.  Just go to eJournals and hit the “peer-reviewed” button after your search and voila, the article appears complete with references that you can save in various ways.  Your home computer has become your library.

At every location we have dedicated employees working hard, diligently cross-checking call numbers, barcodes, re-shelving, finding wayward DVDs, tinkering with Arduino kits, and even checking out vinyl albums.  So whether you want to borrow a book on particle physics, listen to Vampire Weekend on vinyl, or both, we have you covered. Come on in!