Course Catalog 2007-2008
The Denison University Library, housed in the William Howard Doane Library/Seeley G. Mudd Learning center, offers both traditional and online services and collections. Librarians provide an information literacy program in cooperation with classroom faculty. Other library services include research assistance, electronic and print reserves, and interlibrary loan/document delivery. The developing Information Commons, located on the main floor of the library, seeks to provide an integrated user-centered environment supporting teaching, learning and research. Attractive, convenient, and flexible, both individual and group study and social space is combined with various technologies at this location. Learning support is available at the Commons Desk where librarians and media support personnel are available for consultation. Writing Center consultants and Computing Services Help Desk personnel are also located here during selected hours. A multi-media viewing room, an 18 station electronic classroom/student lab, and a video conference facility are available on the lower floors. Wireless access is provided throughout most of the building.
As a member of the Five Colleges of Ohio consortium and OhioLINK the library is able to offer access to a vast collection of online and tangible resources. The online catalog CONSORT offers access to 2.65 million volumes from the combined library collections of Denison University, Kenyon College, The College of Wooster, and Ohio Wesleyan University. Participation in the OhioLINK central catalog and daily delivery among the campuses of The Five Colleges of Ohio and OhioLINK institutions offers access to more than 45.3 million volumes. The library provides access to over 150 electronic resources, most with full text, ranging from digitized historical collections to current online journals. Other library resources include archives and special collections, maps, government publications plus media resources in a wide variety of formats. For more information on the library, its services, and collections see the library home page at http://www.denison.edu/library/.
Access to computing resources, the campus network, the Internet, and the research-rich Internet2 is available a number of ways. Over 650 Macintosh and Dell personal computers are available for student use in 43 public and departmental labs and student clusters. A network outlet is also provided to every student living in a residence hall and wireless networking covers the majority of the campus. In addition to the library, network services include central multi-user computers and servers, personal and departmental web server space, free laser printing, hundreds of software packages, student and staff web portals, and e-mail. About 98 percent of Denison's students own computers and connect to the campus network from residence hall rooms. Microcomputer purchase programs are available from Apple and Dell; see http://www.denison.edu/computing/.
Denison is committed to providing information resources in all formats. Computing Services and the Library have developed an Information Resources initiative to offer new services and resources and to provide instruction in their use. The Denison web site http://www.denison.edu/ provides further information about campus resources and academic, social, cultural and athletic events.