About the Library

Welcome to the Amador library for 2009-2010!

We are here to help staff and students effectively use ideas and information.

· We have over 24,000 books, audio books, videos, DVDs, and magazines that we check out for 2 weeks to students and longer (as needed) to staff.

· Students only need to have their student id number when checking out a book.

· We have 2 LCD projectors, a laptop windows computer, tape players, a digital camera, 9 word processor machines, and slide projectors to check out.

· We have 2 Macintosh computers and 22 windows computers, a laminator, a copy machine (10 cents a copy), a presentation station (video projector and windows computer,) and a scanner, available for your use in the library.

· Students have access to two printers (one color and one black and white) which are both located at the front desk. Print jobs from the LaserJet are 5 cents per sheet and jobs from the color printer are 50 cents per sheet.

· We sell pencils, pens, disks and CDs.

· We offer Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, The Dictionary of American Biography, Current Biography, American Decades, The American Reference Library, Choices and Bridges (career info,) and the Biolab Pig Dissection software on all the computers in the library.

· We offer Facts on File (news, issues and controversies,) Galenet (biographies, opposing viewpoints, health, history, news,) Groliers/Americana (encyclopedias,) Proquest (newspapers, magazines,) SIRS (social issues,) and World’s Best Poetry Online through the web. (Go to the library web page and click on the subscription resource you need. You’ll need a password at home.)

· Students can pick up passwords to the various databases any time at the front desk.

· Students also have access to textbooks used by all departments on campus. The textbooks are located in the front of the library near the copy machine.

Please call us at 5167 or 426-4481 or 5222 (Erik’s office)