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Welcome to Centre College Grace Doherty Library

Use the tabs at the top of the page to learn about the services Grace Doherty Library offers to the faculty (and your students). We look forward to seeing you in the library.

BOOKS

Your Centre College ID is your Library card. Present it at the Circulation Desk when you wish to check out materials.

Check out books for a period of 180 days.

Books may be renewed for an additional 180 days via email (crystal.ellis@centre.edu), telephone (ext. 5277), or accessing your library account from https://library.centre.edu.

Faculty members who will be away from Centre for any significant period of time are asked to return checked out books as a courtesy to other members of the Centre community.

DVDs

Can check out for 3 days with no renewal.

Note: If DVDs are checked out for classroom use, longer loan periods may be arranged with Crystal Ellis.

CDs

Check out for 7 days. May renew, if necessary, for 7 days.

Note: If CDs are checked out for classroom use, longer loan periods may be arranged with Crystal Ellis.

FINES

The library does not charge overdue fines for faculty members, with the exceptions of Interlibrary Loan fees or book replacement costs. Interlibrary Loan fines are $1 a day.

DATABASES (Click to view all databases.)

The Library subscribes to over one hundred databases in a wide variety of disciplines. An alphabetical list of these databases can be found on the Library home page under FIND / ALL DATABASES. For a list of databases by subject, select DIV I-Humanities, DIV II-Social Studies, or DIV III-Science & Math on the Databases A-Z page. If accessing the Centre databases off campus, make sure to select the database title from the Library home page so that the database can validate you as a Centre subscriber. You will be asked for your Centre username and password to confirm that you are a member of the Centre community.

JOURNALS (Click to search all journal titles.)

Journals are available online through our databases, with several historic issues of some journals available in print. To find journals, go to the Library home page and select FIND / ALL JOURNALS. Type in the title of the journal, and the results will indicate whether Centre has access to the full text of the journal. If we have access, the dates of access will be listed, as well as whether the journal is available in print or online.

E-BOOKS (Click to explore eBook collections.)

The Library provides access to hundreds of thousands of electronic books. These are included in the Library online catalog and include a link to access the title. Reference books, scholarly and professional works, published by commercial and university presses, are all included. The Centre community may use these books on or off campus. Contact a Reference Librarian for help accessing electronic books from the collection.

STREAMING VIDEOS (Click for info about streaming videos)

Grace Doherty Library maintains a collection of audiovisual content used primarily in support of the curriculum. Requests for streaming videos in fulfillment of our mission to support courses of study while complying with copyright law and fair use guidelines are welcome. All faculty requests for audiovisual content in support of teaching are honored whenever possible. Please send all inquiries to Jazmine Wilson.

Reference

Reference Librarians can help you (or your students) locate information on your research topic, find answers to specific questions, and use the online library catalog and electronic databases.

Instruction

Instruction librarians can provide:

Classroom instruction to aid students in any part of the research process (developing a research topic, finding information and using databases, synthesizing information and integrating evidence and using information ethically).
Course and subject research guides for library resources.
Active learning exercises to promote writing and research skills.
Tutorials faculty may assign to students needing extra help in some part of the research process.

Schedule an appointment or classroom instruction with a reference or instruction librarian.

The Centre College Special Collections, located in the Grace Doherty Library, includes a collection of rare books and the College Archives. Dating from 1818 to the present, the Archives primarily concerns the history of Centre College and includes material such as manuscripts, photographs, publications, yearbooks, annual catalogs, audio and video recordings, and more. The rare book collection, while small, includes examples of fine printing, nineteenth century natural history books, books printed in France in the 1500s, Kentucky history, and Presbyterianism.

The Archivist welcomes the opportunity to work with you to incorporate our Special Collections & Archives into your classroom, or to partner with you and your students on other projects utilizing primary source materials. Please contact Beth Morgan at beth.morgan@centre.edu to schedule a time to discuss how we can work together to further enhance your students' research skills or to schedule a tour of the Thomas A. Spragens Rare Book Room & Archives.

For more information on our collections, to view our digital archives, and to discover Centre's history, please visit our web page.

How to request an ILL

The Centre College Institutional Repository Collection

The Centre College Institutional Repository Collection or CCIRC is the permanent repository for scholarship related to Centre College faculty, staff, and students. An open access platform for scholarship, it contains works deposited by faculty, staff, and students; issues of the school paper, The Cento; and our oral history collection.

You are invited to deposit your work in the institutional repository. Not only will it be available online, it will also be backed up on a local server and in the library's offsite digital cold storage, ensuring preservation and access of the work for decades to come.