DIRECTORY - Southwest Virginia Community College

LEARNING RESOURCES CENTER
The Learning Resources Center (LRC) is the information communication service of
the College. Its primary mission is to provide the material support to the instructional program
at the College. Secondarily, the LRC supports various community organizations and programs
of the College’s service region.
The Director of Learning Resources coordinates the various activities of the three
service departments of this center - Library Services, the Learning Laboratory, and Audio-
Visual and Distance Education Services.
Library Services
The mission of SVCC Library is to serve as a focal point for research and study, to
provide students, academic personnel, and community users access to informational
resources, and to provide an up-to-date collection of library materials which support and
enhance the educational programs of the College as well as the personal aspirations of
individuals using the Library. Specific goals to meet this mission are:
To provide an educational atmosphere and physical surroundings which are
conducive to learning.
To provide an organized and readily accessible collection of materials which
are current and representative of the curriuclum and the needs of the
community of library users.
To provide individual and group instruction for library literacy, information
literacy, and computer literacy.
To provide for the continued effectiveness of the Library by regularly assessing
the needs of students, faculty, and community.
To provide qualified staff who are knowledgeable, dedicated, congenial, and
cooperative.
The Library is a fully automated, modern research facility. The NOTIS system provides
an on-line catalog with access to the collections of all the college libraries in the Virginia
Community College System and an automated circulation system. Other locally developed
networks provide bibliographic and full-text databases along with the capacity to print
information to a laser printer.
VIVA, The Virginia Virtual Library, is available on eight public-access computers.
This state-wide academic project provides electronic access to vast amounts of information
through the cooperation of all the academic libraries and special funding initiatives. Students
and faculty have free access to First Search, literature full-text databases, full-text
encyclopedias, and full-text periodicals. The interlibrary loan component of the VIVA project
provides document delivery services between and among the academic libraries, and
electronic delivery of interlibrary loan is a component.