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About Reta E. King Library

The King Library provides students and faculty with access to a wide variety of resources. The Library promotes and enhances student learning by providing information in all subject disciplines, enabling information literacy for lifelong learning, and providing a place conducive to studying, collaborating, and recreational reading.

To support these goals, the Library contains over 200,000 volumes of magazines, newspapers, journals, and books. There is electronic access to the Internet, online periodicals, proprietary databases, as well as numerous online academic library catalogs, including those of Wayne State and Peru State Colleges. A valid CSC ID card is required to check out all materials.

The Library web pages provide reference sources, self-driven library tutorials, off-campus student services, subject guides, email contact with a librarian, hours of operation, and other general library information. If the Library does not have the materials that you require, it can usually get them through interlibrary loan. Also, extended and personalized reference service with a librarian is always available by appointment.

The Library houses a student computer lab and a Coffee Shop, and loans laptop computers for use in the Library with the campus wireless network. Copiers, group study areas, quiet areas, and a computer help-desk are all available.

The King Library is conveniently located just west of the Student Center. All three floors of the Library have workstations for the Library’s online catalog, provide access to the campus wireless network, and contain work and study areas.

The Circulation/Reference Desk is located on the main floor on the left as you enter. This floor also houses the reference, periodical, and fiction collections, as well as the Student Art Gallery.

The upper level houses the non-fiction collection, the Donohue Children’s Collection of juvenile literature, and the Curriculum Library.

The ground level features the Coffee Shop, a student computer lab, two classrooms, a faculty seminar/conference room and library technical services.

Students may checkout wireless laptops for use in the various “hotspots” of the Library, including the Coffee Shop.

Reta E. King Library Mission Statement:

The mission of the Reta E. King Library is to serve as a major educational, informational, and cultural resource center for Chadron State College and the College's service area.  The Library is committed to meeting the diverse and changing informational needs by providing knowledgeable staff and innovative services and prgrams to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning, achieve higher levels of scholarly, creative, and research activities, and rerich the quality of life of students, faculty and staff. (Written and Approved Fall 2004)