| Database Access
Our online databases are accessible
on campus to the public and off campus to the Briar Cliff University
community with your BCU network account. These databases consist
of reference materials, journals, magazines, and newspaper indexes
and articles.
Reference Librarians
Reference Librarians are available to help you with your research
needs. Please call or email:
Veronica McAsey
712.279.1772 or Rachel
Crowley 712.279.1771.
Library Resources
The library contains more than:
Students may check out books for 30 days and equipment for 1
day. One must have special permission to check out other library
material.
Reserves
Reserves are materials faculty want their students to peruse.
This may include previous tests, books, music, videotapes, and/or
journals. The normal check out period is 2 hours, in library use
only, but some items may be checked out for 24 hours. Reserves
are located at the circulation desk.
Borrowing Privileges
Briar Cliff University is an Iowa
Open Access (OA) Library. This means that anyone from a member
OA library may check out our library material and that we will
return other OA materials to cooperating libraries.
BCU is also a member of the Sioux
City Library Cooperative whereby Briar Cliff students and
employees may use and check out material from Western Iowa Tech,
Sioux City Public Library, Morningside College, local hospital
libraries, or local high school libraries with their BCU identification
card and current registration sticker.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
The borrowing of books or other library resources from another
library is available to the BCU community. To request these materials,
please complete the following online ILL form.
You will be notified when your materials arrive.
Contact Sr. Mary
Jane Koenigs for more information.
Library Services
- Photocopies are $.10 per sheet.
- Study rooms are available.
- Lamination is available for $.05 per running inch.
- Transparencies (b&w and color) can be made in the library.
- Color printing is $.25 per sheet.
- A scanner is available at the reference desk.
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