About the Library

Located on the second and third floors of the Vasche Library Building, the University Library provides the recorded knowledge and cultural materials that students and faculty need for study and research. These materials are freely available in attractive and comfortable surroundings accommodating 548 readers in a variety of seating patterns. The Library also offers access to a variety of databases and electronic resources accessible both on-site and remotely to students and faculty. The Library is staffed by paraprofessional library assistants and by professionally trained librarian-scholars who organize, analyze, and interpret those materials. Professional reference service is available during most of the hours the Library is open. The librarians also offer to help students acquire the principles of independent library research through formal courses and individual instruction. The Library offers a specialized program of consultation and assistance for graduate students with in-depth research for papers and theses. The Library collection has been developed with the active participation of the faculty to meet the needs of the curriculum and special areas of research. It contains over 337,000 volumes, and includes subscriptions to about 1,900 periodicals. Backfiles of most of these periodicals are available. The Library is a selective depository for United States government publications, and maintains an extensive collection of documents published by the State of California and local governments of the University's six-county service area. Publications which are not locally available can be obtained quickly for CSU Stanislaus students and faculty by the Library's interlibrary loan service, which is connected electronically to over 10,000 libraries of all types. In the fall of 1999, the CSU Stanislaus-Stockton Library was established to provide library services for CSU Stanislaus-Stockton students, faculty and staff. Located in Acacia Court, Room 1049, the library offers course reserves, delivery via courier service of items from the main library in Turlock, interlibrary loan, Internet access, ID cards, and a small on-site reference collection. For more information, please see http://www.library.csustan.edu/stockton/index.html.