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Inver Hills Community College Library

Library Building, First Floor (651) 450-3625

To access the library's many online resources, visit the Library's website at http://www.inverhills.edu/Library

The Library at Inver Hills exists to serve the educational, cultural, aesthetic, and leisure-time needs of students, faculty and staff by providing a variety of print and non-print materials and information services.

Because formal education should encourage students toward a lifetime process of self-education, the Library staff is committed to making the library pleasant, interesting and helpful in order to create a continuing desire in students to use other libraries once they leave Inver Hills Community College.

In other words, we're here to help, whether it's doing research for a paper, finding out more about a topic that interests you, or just browsing the many possibilities you'll find including newspapers, magazines, reference books, CDs, videos, fiction and nonfiction books, and more.

General information about the library is given below (hours, services).

 

Hours

Please note that hours may vary during semester breaks and holidays. You may call the library in advance to confirm open hours. If you need to drop off library materials after hours, there is a book-drop box located outside the second level entrance of the library building. Phone (651) 450-8625.

Library hours click here.

Services

Inver Hills Library has a collection of over 50,000 books, reference materials, slides, CDs, cassettes, videos and film. The Library also subscribes to over 260 periodicals.

Other services include:

• Copy machines for photocopying at $.05 per page
• High-speed audio cassette duplicators.
• Individual study carrels for quiet study; study rooms for group work.
• Viewing and listening rooms for audiovisual materials.
• ILL (interlibrary loan) services to obtain books, articles and other materials not available at IHCC. This service is free to Inver Hills' students, but is limited to 15 requests at a time and only one copy of a book may be requested (no multiple copies).

Reference service: Librarians are available to assist users with questions and locating information, individual research and use of MnPALS, the online catalog. The reference desk is staffed during all open hours, and library users are encouraged to ask for assistance whenever needed. Please disturb the librarian!

Library website

• The user-friendly MnPALS Library Catalog (you can search for materials and you also can renew your library materials on line) and NetLibrary that searches our library's e-books collection.
• Links to great online resources that bring you to millions of reference materials, research, journal articles, nursing literature, newspaper articles that you can get to and use online. Providers include:

  â–ªCQ Researcher
  â–ªProQuest
  â–ªLexisNexis
  â–ªEBSCO Host Research Databases
  â–ªCINAHL from OVID
  â–ªMNLink

• Library staff listings and contact information.
• Books in Print from Bowker...check on availability of more than 5 million items.
• Our Art Index for the Minneapolis Institute of Arts collection, a reference created to help our art students and anyone else interested in art.