Clinical work is practiced in accord with the ethical and legal requirements of the American Psychological Association, the American Counseling Association, and the Pennsylvania Board of Professional Psychology, as well as the mission statements of Marywood University and the Graduate School at Marywood University. It is open 91 hours a week. Full reference service by the professional library faculty is available during all open hours. The University has active subscriptions to 98 print and electronic psychology journals that appear in the American Psychological Association Journal Catalog and an in-depth collection of psychology books, audiotapes, and videotapes. Students may download or print abstracts and many full-text articles from any networked computer on campus.
Access also is available from remote sites, through the library's web page.
In addition, the library is a member of several borrowing consortia. Finally, the library has an interlibrary loan agreement with the University of Scranton, with requested articles obtained in 24 hours. McGowan Center for Graduate and Professional Studies Housed in the McGowan Center, the Department of Psychology and Counseling maintains a broad range of teaching, clinical and research equipment in support of its graduate training mission. The students in the Psy. Each classroom contains a VCR and Macintosh computer, loaded with PowerPoint and internet access.