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Jenna Welch & Laura Bush Community Library
A Study/Learning Center for All Age Groups.
The Library is a
combination academic/public library located on the campus of El Paso
Community College's Northwest Campus in El Paso, Texas. It was formed in
2003 by an inter-governmental agreement between the City of El Paso and El
Paso Community College.
Mission
Statement
The Jenna Welch &
Laura Bush Community Library, El Paso Community College, Northwest
Campus is an academic library partnering with the El Paso Public Library
to provide family, youth and children’s services. The library provides
instruction, service, access to informational resources that enhance
educational growth and personal enrichment.
- Provide collections, technologies, and instructional
services for EPCC students, faculty, staff, and the community.
- Provide services, programming and collections for
children and youth through the partnership.
- Identify new technologies to enhance classroom
instruction and improve the quality of services offered to all library
users.
- Maintain friendly, knowledgeable bilingual staff to
provide individualized, timely service.
- Maintain welcoming, learning environment with
up-to-date technology.
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Service
Community: Something for Everyone
Children
- Materials in a
variety of formats for children
- Programming: Story times and
special occasion events.
Young Adults
- Homework help
- Quiet study areas and group
study rooms
- Teen Hangout program
(currently only in summer)
College Students & Faculty
- Full range of quality academic
library and information services.
- Expanded resources and
instruction to support the college curriculum
- High end orientation classroom
equipped with 35 computers
- Video conference room
- Quiet study areas and group
study rooms
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Programs
of Special Interest
Borderlands Research
- Resources including
books,
journal articles,
online materials and
web guide to serve students and
faculty and to support the college curriculum
- Orientation sessions tailored
to this curriculum.
- Web access to student articles
published in Borderlands, a special annual issue of the El Paso Times
Court Reporting
- Resources including books,
journal articles, online materials and web guide to serve students and
faculty and to support the college curriculum
- Orientation sessions tailored
to this curriculum.
Pharmacy Technician
- Resources including books,
journal articles, online materials and
web guide to serve students and
faculty and to support the college curriculum
- Orientation sessions tailored
to this curriculum.
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The
Collections
Classification Systems in Use
- Adult and young adult
collections are arranged by the Library of Congress Classification
scheme, reflecting the academic aspects of the library
- Children's materials are
arranged alphabetically by author.
Books (print and e-books)
- Popular and scholarly
nonfiction
- Reference tools (non
circulating books and online sources that provide overviews,
background, and statistics, and more.
- Children's and young adult
books
For the general public,
students of all ages, teens and children, as well as materials to support
the college curriculum - many in Spanish or bilingual
Periodicals
- More than 100 titles of
popular magazines and newspapers are available for leisure reading.
Online Catalog, Databases
& Internet
- From the Northwest Community
Library home page, users have both on site and remote access to the
online catalog, which includes the collections of all campuses of El
Paso Community College, and access to various websites with
annotations.
- More than 80 subscription
databases, many providing full-text with graphics
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Library
Instruction
One of the
library's primary goals is to establish a program of Information Literacy
for lifelong learning by teaching library users to:
- Recognize and
define information needs.
- Develop
research skills for locating relevant information efficiently.
- Critically
evaluate information and its sources.
- Use
information effectively, responsible and ethically
Study &
Meeting Rooms
- Two study
rooms equipped with desktop computer, headphones and
microphones.
- One videoconferencing room --
seats 10.
- One orientation room with 35
computers with headphones, microphones and SMART technologies such as
an interactive whiteboard and multimedia cart.
- Quiet reading
room - seats about 40
A Learning
Environment For All Ages
- The library's
resources, programs, floor plan and furnishings were developed to
provide an atmosphere conducive to study and learning, including quiet
areas and study rooms.
- The public area includes 39 computers
for general use, including some equipped with educational software for
children.
- The library is
open to the public a total of 64 hours per week, including evenings
and Saturdays.
Resource
Sharing/Collaboration
Resource Sharing For Expanded
Access
As an academic/public library
partnership, Northwest Community Library offers its users access to an
outstanding base of shared resources from the
El Paso Community College,
Texshare, and the
El Paso Public Library.
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Northwest Community Library
