Course Catalog 2008-2009
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 Learning Commons, located on the main floor of the library, seeks to provide an integrated user-centered environment supporting learning, teaching 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 ITS 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 and OhioLINK consortia the library offers access to a vast collection of online and tangible resources. The online catalog CONSORT offers access to 2.8 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 46 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 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 data port is also provided to every student living in a residence hall and wireless networking covers the majority of the campus. In addition to the public and departmental computer labs, network services offer personal and departmental web server space, laser printing, hundreds of software packages, student and staff web portals, and Denison provided e-mail. Approximately ninety-eight percent of Denison students bring a personal computer to school. Laptops may be used online from almost anywhere on campus, indoor or outdoor. Discount purchase programs are provided by Apple and Dell . For more information about technology services at Denison, computer support, and discount purchase programs visit http://www.denison.edu/its/.
Denison is committed to providing information resources in many formats. Information Technology 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.