The Dick Smith Library is the academic heart of the campus. It provides facilities, materials, personnel, and services that supplement and enrich classroom teaching and learning. The Library is available to all faculty and staff of the University. To check out library materials, a faculty or staff member must present a valid University ID card. Records from Erath and surrounding counties are stored in the library, as well as back runs of local, state, and national newspapers.
Help is available to locate materials from the library or through interlibrary loan.
Library personnel are happy to answer questions via the telephone. The University Librarian and the Library staff are available to help acquire needed resources, to make them accessible, and to provide assistance in their use. The public access catalog, PAC, provides bibliographic information on all library materials, indicating whether individual items are currently available or checked out. In addition, DRA-Web provides access to a series of informational databases to search for periodical information, including many that are in full text. Users may search many of the databases with their own home or office computers.