Learning Resource Centers
Our learning resource centers (LRCs) aren’t your average libraries. Spread across five campus locations with a virtual hub, each LRC offers you 24/7 access to:
- eBooks
- Multimedia Resources for course projects
- Literacy Education
- Interlibrary loan services
Our LRCs are open to students, faculty, and the community.
Access Our Virtual Library 24/7
Explore our collection of books, multimedia, and resources any time.
Digital Collections
Citation Pages
MLA Style
Purdue University Online Writing Lab
APA Style
Purdue University Online Writing Lab
APAStyle.org
Combinations, Embellishments of Various Documentation Styles
Citation Style for Research Papers
English Writing Help Center - MLA, APA style, grammars, vocabularies and avoiding plagiarism
Writing Center Handouts (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
e-Books
EBSCO Electronic Books
Collection of 25,000 general and reference books.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)
Collection of Reference Books.
Electronic Resources
- Academic Search Elite – Covering virtually every area of academic study and offering full-text information.
- Academic Search Complete
- Associates Programs Source - This unique research database provides full-text coverage for the subject areas most relevant to two-year college programs.
- CREDO Reference
- Detroit News Collection
- *ERIC — The Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2200 digests, along with references for additional information, citations, and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.
- Issues & Controversies — hot topics in politics, government, business, society, education, and popular culture.
- MasterFILE Complete —This database offers the largest collection of popular full-text magazines, reference books, and other highly regarded sources covering virtually every general-interest subject area.
- Opposing Viewpoints in Context
- Points of View Reference Center — Containing resources presenting multiple sides of an issue, this database provides rich content to help students assess and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills.
- Today's Science — Bridges the gap between the science that students learn in the classroom and the discoveries pushing the boundaries of science today.
- World News Digest — Brings together and enhances more than seven decades of news.
General & Ready References
- Almanac
- The Reference Desk
- Encyclopedia of World Biography
- Best of History Websites (EdTech Teacher Resource)
Legal
- Legal Information Reference Center
- Legal Source
- Skeletal System (Biology)
- Khan Academy — With a library of over 2,800 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 296 practice exercises. The purpose of these pages is to quiz your knowledge on the structures of the skeletal system.
- Writing Center Handouts (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) — Links will allow you to access real photographs of the human skeletal system.
- LearningExpress Library — Whatever your goal, LearningExpress Library's resources will help you succeed. Each of our Learning Centers offers the practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, eBooks, and information you need to achieve the results you want—at school, at work, or in life.
Allied Health
- CINAHL (EBSCOHOST)
Search the definitive database for nursing and allied health research. - Consumer Health Complete (Mel)
- Consumer Health Information (Mel)
- Consumer Health Information - Arabic (Mel)
- Consumer Health Information - Spanish (Mel)
- Health Source - Consumer Edition (Mel)
- Health Source (EBSCOHOST)
Focusing on many medical disciplines.
Art
Automotive
Business
- Business Book Summaries
- Business Source Elite (EBSCOHost)
FULL TEXT More than 1,100 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 450 peer-reviewed business publications. - Demographics Now (Mel)
- Entrepreneurial Studies Source (Mel)
- Small Business Reference Center (Mel)
English/Literature
- Biography Reference Center
- Literature Resource Center
- NoveList Plus
- Poetry & Short Story Reference Center
Environments, Energy and Natural Resources
Genealogy
- Ancestry (ProQuest)
- Guided Tutorial: Video (2 min)
- County and Regional Histories
History
Humanities
Languages
- Mango Languages: Innovative, interactive language learning for beginners to advance level
Legal
Library Science
Newspapers
Nursing
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
- Sources from Allied Health may be used for Nursing*
- Proquest Nursing Journals — Complete information from leading nursing and related publications. This database is designed to meet the needs of researchers at health-care facilities as well as students enrolled in nursing programs at academic institutions.
Political Science
Psychology
- Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
- Proquest Psychology Journals — FULL TEXT Complete information from over 400 top psychology and related publications, this database meets the needs of both students and mental-health professionals.
Science