The 30,200 square foot Learning Resource Center includes library services, a Media Center, computer labs and offices, and classrooms. The library has an extensive collection of more than 45,000 books, newspapers, magazines, records and state documents. LRC staff members are available to help students, faculty, staff and patrons find the information and resources they need for course assignments, research and leisure reading. In addition, the library's automated card catalog can be used to locate information. The library offers access to a number of online databases covering a broad range of topics. These include FirstSeach, EBSCOHost, NewsBank and Gale Group Infotrac. 

Through the library's membership in the OCLC computerized network, students, faculty, staff and patrons have interlibrary loan access to the collections of over 43,000 other libraries worldwide. Library cards are available to non-student Chaves County residents for a $10.00 refundable deposit. For high school students and patrons ages 55 and older, no deposit is required. Films, slides, filmstrips, cassettes, and videotapes are available for in-house use in the LRC's Media Center, which also designs and produces original instructional materials.

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