If the articles in the journals look like they will be helpful for your assignment, photocopiers are available throughout the library. Current issues of journals cannot be checked out of the library, and bound volumes can only be checked out for a few hours to graduate students and faculty. Indexes are grouped by major subject. Numerous electronic databases are available in the library in the reference areas on the first and second floors. CD-ROM databases are available in numerous fields including engineering, science, geology, education, literature, psychology, and sociology.
Online databases allow access to several hundred different subject databases.
Most of these services are located in Library 110, behind the reference desk. The U.S. Government publishes statistics, congressional hearings, government studies and reports, laws and regulations, and much more. Special indexes help in finding government information on many subjects. Ask for help at the Documents Reference Desk on the second floor, or Click here to send query to the Documents department.