The Delgado Community College libraries provide valuable resources to assist students and faculty with their education needs. A wide array of online resources is provided to the Delgado Community College community. Over 90 online resources provide support to the research activities of students and faculty and include such titles as netLibrary (a collection of over 25,000 full-text electronic books), ebrary (over 30,000 academic electronic books), Gale Virtual Reference Library (over 350 electronic reference books), Oxford Reference Online, Academic Search Premier, Arts and Sciences Collection (JSTOR), Biography Resource Center, Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) Plus Full-Text, CollegeSource, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe, Grove’s Dictionary of Art Online and Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition. Students, faculty and staff may currently access these and many other online resources through the Blackboard site as well as the Delgado web site.

The Charity School of Nursing Library has 3,500 monographs and subscriptions to 80 nursing journals. The library has a computer area equipped with several computers with Internet access and CSN Multimedia (streaming videos) plus 2 network printers. There is also a journal reading area, career development corner, and three copiers for student use.

The CSN Library offers the following services, Circulation, Online Catalog/Database Instruction for faculty, staff, and students by appointment, answering Reference queries, and filling Interlibrary loan requests. Contact Charity School of Nursing Library staff with questions/comments by emailing CSNLibrary@dcc.edu.

The Moss Memorial Library is located in Building 10, Room 116 on the City Park Campus. Services such as circulation, reference assistance, reserves, online database/bibliographic instruction, online database research, online printing, interlibrary loan and copier services are now available. The print collection includes approximately 22,000 books with an additional 87,000 books in Closed Stacks. Over 380 print newspapers and journals are available as well.

Contact a reference librarian by either calling (504) 671-5317 or e-mailing cpref@dcc.edu to schedule an appointment for bibliographic instruction and/or to ask a reference question. The periodicals librarian may also be reached by calling (504) 671-5321 or e-mailing ccraft@dcc.edu. Contact the acquisitions librarian by calling (504) 671-5327 or emailing hcumle@dcc.edu. Contact the cataloging librarian by calling (504) 671-5330 or e-mailing drepma@dcc.edu.

Northshore / Slidell Library is now open. Most of the collection was damaged but more than 1,000 books were salvaged.

Books, periodicals, and computers are now available at the Northshore/Slidell Library. Northshore students have access to the St. Tammany Parish Public Library System for library services.

The library on the West Bank Campus has a collection of approximately 20,000 volumes. The library subscribes to more than 500 journals, magazines, and newspapers, and provides access to the Internet and online research tools.

Services such as reference assistance, reserves, online database instruction, online database research, online printing, and interlibrary loans are offered in the West Bank Library, Building 2.

Bibliographic or online database instruction, provided to individuals and classes, is available Monday-Friday at the West Bank Library. Contact the reference librarian by either calling 504-762-3153 or emailing ahartm@dcc.edu to schedule an appointment for instruction and/or to ask a reference question.