Welcome to the Wayne Community College Library
Library Hours Monday – Thursday 7:45 am - 9:00 pm Friday 7:45 am – 4:00 pm
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Where’s the rest room?
Reserves Selected by instructor Kept at main desk Limited circulation
Reserve Types Room Use Overnight 3 Day Checkout
AV Materials May Be Used In the library In the Academic Skills Center In a classroom
More than 300 magazines and journals
Ask for these at the circulation desk
Genealogy
Novels and short stories
Easy Books For Kids
Big Books
Reference
Reference books may be Almanacs Atlases Dictionaries Encyclopedias
Books you can check out
The automated catalog Your index to all the books and audiovisuals in the library
Search Everything - computer looks at: Authors Titles Subject headings Notes
The call number is an address for an item.
LB T
LC LB T Dewey Com 1998
A General Works M Music B Philosophy, Religion N Art C-F History P Language G Geography, Sports Q Science H Social Sciences S Agriculture J Political Science T Technology K Law U Military Science L Education V Naval Science Z Library Science
Anatomy of a Call Number LB First line—letters Second line--numbers
T95 Third line—letter & number The number is a decimal
21-Day Check Out Fiction Oversized Juvenile General Collection
Book Drop
Fines 21-day books –10 cents per day 3-day reserve –25 cents per day Overnight reserve –10 cents per hour
Aardvarks to Zucchini
NEWS WEATHER
ADDRESSES PHONE NUMBERS FINANCIAL INFORMATION
RELIGION HEALTH & MEDICAL INFORMATION
MUSEUMS & OTHER PLACES LIBRARIES & REFERENCE RESOURCES
SHOPPING JOB SEARCH
July 2002 At least 2 billion pages
Boolean Operators AND--cats AND dogs OR --cats OR dogs NOT --dogs NOT hounds
Quotation marks –“poodle dogs” Parentheses –training AND (dogs or cats) Asterisk –teach*
Advantages of NC LIVE >Articles from more than 3000 publications >More reliable than Web pages
Interlibrary Loan - one library borrows an item from another library for a patron to use
Interlibrary Loan Costs Books - none Photocopies - may have charges
From home you can FCheck the WCC library catalog FUse NC Live FAccess links from the library web page
The library’s purpose is to help students and other patrons find the information they need when they need it.