2008 Woodie Awards
Perfect for peace and quiet
Soni Kumar
Issue date: 8/22/08 Section: News
The new school year means spending long hours studying and considering the library as a home away from home.
Lovejoy Library's mission is to support and enhance instruction, scholarship and public service to SIUE and the region by providing scholarly information and archival resources.
The library has three floors of resources many students are oblivious to.
"I like the third floor especially, it is so quiet and such a good place to study that I can do whatever I want," senior pre-pharmacy major Inderpreet Dhillon said. "I can study, I can take a nap."
The first floor consists of reference and instruction areas, a music listening room and an array of computers available for student use. The second floor contains a media collection area, thousands of microforms-a type of film paper used to hold many images from books-an array of magazines and articles and quiet study areas. The third floor has many print government documents and a collaborative computing area.
The library holds approximately 800,000 different volumes, 1,300,000 microforms, 540,000 U.S. documents, 150,000 maps and aerial photographs and 34,000 sound recordings.
"They have lots of research papers and articles to help me do my assignments for anatomy," Dhillon said. "This is the best place to study and be focused."
Even though Lovejoy Library has thousands of resources, they are still adding to the library to "better enhance the quality of learning," according to Regina McBride, acting dean at Lovejoy Library.
Lovejoy contains over 5,000 electronic books where students can download full text books, articles and journals straight from the computer. Many hard copies are also available for check out to the students and faculty.
"We are on the move and we are constantly adding to our electronic resources," McBride said. "One of the new programs Lovejoy has implemented is Atomic Learning, where students can actually teach themselves how to use a specific program."
Lovejoy Library's mission is to support and enhance instruction, scholarship and public service to SIUE and the region by providing scholarly information and archival resources.
The library has three floors of resources many students are oblivious to.
"I like the third floor especially, it is so quiet and such a good place to study that I can do whatever I want," senior pre-pharmacy major Inderpreet Dhillon said. "I can study, I can take a nap."
The first floor consists of reference and instruction areas, a music listening room and an array of computers available for student use. The second floor contains a media collection area, thousands of microforms-a type of film paper used to hold many images from books-an array of magazines and articles and quiet study areas. The third floor has many print government documents and a collaborative computing area.
The library holds approximately 800,000 different volumes, 1,300,000 microforms, 540,000 U.S. documents, 150,000 maps and aerial photographs and 34,000 sound recordings.
"They have lots of research papers and articles to help me do my assignments for anatomy," Dhillon said. "This is the best place to study and be focused."
Even though Lovejoy Library has thousands of resources, they are still adding to the library to "better enhance the quality of learning," according to Regina McBride, acting dean at Lovejoy Library.
Lovejoy contains over 5,000 electronic books where students can download full text books, articles and journals straight from the computer. Many hard copies are also available for check out to the students and faculty.
"We are on the move and we are constantly adding to our electronic resources," McBride said. "One of the new programs Lovejoy has implemented is Atomic Learning, where students can actually teach themselves how to use a specific program."
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