Library Relocation Information

Library Opens at Central Campus

The new library facility on Central Campus has opened as scheduled, just in time for the start of the fall semester. The entrance to the library is on the second floor of Building One, to the right at the top of the main staircase. The new Library includes:

• A combined circulation, reserve, interlibrary loan and reference desk where you can check out and return library materials, request resources from other libraries throughout the world, and get one-on-one research assistance from professional librarians.
• A core collection of over 100,000 high-quality scholarly books, periodicals and media, with access to another 150,000 volumes in nearby storage. This is in addition to access to an expanding collection of electronic resources covering the full array of academic disciplines.
• A fully-equipped high-tech classroom where librarians will provide orientation to the Library's resources and services, sessions on how to locate and use print and digital information, and subject-specific upper-division and graduate-level research instruction.
• Over 200 study seats, in a variety of forms – including collaborative workstations, lounge seating, study carrels, laptop tables, individual and group study tables, and two group study rooms where students can collaborate on class projects, gather in study groups, and meet for scholarly purposes.
• More than 60 computer workstations in a fully-networked and wireless environment, including adaptive technology workstations near the reference desk and in a quiet study room on the lower level.

As part of the interim library, we will continue to manage satellite study spaces in the Heritage Room of the Ellison Campus Center, at the South Campus lounge in the Academic Building, and on the second floor of the Central Campus facility – on the mezzanine and in the hallways.

I hope that you will take the opportunity to visit the new facility, to meet your subject specialist librarian, and to discover all the print, media and online resources that the Library has made available to you!

Dr. Susan E. Cirillo, Dean
Library, Instructional & Learning Support
scirillo@salemstate.edu

Library Operations, Locations & Contact Info

• Reference & Instruction Librarians
• Reference Services
• Library Resources
• Study Spaces
• Library Website