The OVU Library is located on the ground floor of the Stotts Administrative Center on the main campus. The library's primary mission is to serve the college community: our students, faculty and staff.  Guests from the community are also welcome to use our library.

• LIBRARY NEWS  (last updated 1/16/08)
• ONLINE CATALOG
• ONLINE DATABASES  Library registration is required for remote access (except for students in the College of Professional Studies and Special Education Institute unless you anticipate coming to the library to borrow material). Remote access expires at the end of each academic term. If you need further help, please contact LIBRARY PERSONNEL.
• APPALACHIAN COLLEGE ASSOCIATION CONSOLIDATED WEB LINKS
• TILT (TEXAS INFORMATION LITERACY TUTORIAL)
• WEBMAIL.OVU.EDU
  The e-mail log on is the same as your log on to the network on campus. The format of your OVU email is: first name.last name@students.ovu.edu. This is the library's official means of communication with you, and you are responsible for checking your e-mail regularly. Instructions for those wishing to forward your OVU e-mail: in Outlook Web Access, go to Rules (lower left). Choose "New..." in the top navigational line. At the bottom of the page check to forward your mail. Enter a forwarding e-mail address. Save and Close.

Maymester/Summer Hours:

Friday, May 2- Sunday, May 4....................Closed

Monday - Friday..................................9:00am - 5:00pm

Saturday - Sunday.......................................Closed

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. 
--Shelby Foote, Civil War Historian and Writer

The Guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned. . . I had never been so truly free in my life. 
--Malcolm X

The library is located on the ground floor of the Stotts Administration Center. It is a pleasant and well-equipped facility used by both faculty and students for research, study, and leisure reading. Holdings include approximately 34,000 volumes, 142 print periodical subscriptions, 60,203 microforms, and 6,779 Audio Visuals. The Library also subscribes to 30+ electronic databases for periodicals, reference sources, and 93,763 e-book titles. An automated system supports circulation and an online catalog. A collection of audio-visual materials and equipment is also available for student and faculty use. Library is open 74 hours per week.

Through OCLC, a library service provider, students and faculty have interlibrary loan access to a national network of libraries. Bibliographic instruction is offered through the classroom and on an individual basis. It is the aim of the library to build and maintain a balanced collection of print, non-print, and electronic resources to support the academic programs of OVU.

Page last updated January 16, 2008.