While faculty members are encouraged to keep materials as long as they are needed, all materials circulated to students may be checked out for a four week period. In addition, materials that are to be used by an entire class may be placed on reserve status. Equipment to support the various media formats is available for both student and teacher use. This equipment may be circulated for a class period, daily, or in some cases, yearly. The Charles Gay Library is fully automated with an online catalog, online periodical indexing and retrieval, and Internet access.
Professional librarians are available to guide students in various research projects.
Faculty are requested to plan with the librarians before assigning research projects so that students will be able to produce a more successful final project. Since it is impossible to any one library to provide everything needed by faculty and students, interlibrary loan services are available. Materials can be requested from other libraries through a network called OCLC which consists of school, college, university, and public libraries worldwide.