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LIBRARY FACILITIES AND STAFFING
The Paul Laurence Dunbar Library is Wright State University's general academic library, and houses the education and human services monograph, serial, and media collections. In addition, many of the Libraries’ holdings in clinical psychology as well as some other materials related to College of Education and Human Services programs (e.g., athletic training) are housed in the Fordham Health Sciences Library, also located on Wright State's main campus. Seating capacity is 1,180 in the Dunbar Library and 363 in the Fordham Library. Facilities include study tables and carrels for group or individual study, and photocopiers on each floor. With the exception of media and special collections, all materials in both libraries are shelved in open stacks. Little-used older titles are housed in a remote storage facility, from which requested items may be retrieved and delivered within 48 hours.
The regular hours for the Paul Laurence Dunbar Library are:
Monday - Thursday 7:30 a.m. ‑ 12:00 midnight
Friday 7:30 a.m. ‑ 9:00 p.m.
Saturday 9:00 a.m. ‑ 9:00 p.m.
Sunday 11:00 a.m. ‑ 12:00 midnight
The regular hours for the Fordham Health Sciences Library are:
Monday - Thursday 8 a.m. - Midnight
Friday 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Saturday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Sunday 10 a.m. – Midnight
LIBNET (http://www.libraries.wright.edu/), the University Libraries' computer network, provides students and faculty with full access to the Wright State online catalog, Wright State and OhioLINK electronic resources, and the World Wide Web. In addition, LIBNET offers links to numerous other online catalogs, subject guides with links to research databases and useful web sites (http://www.libraries.wright.edu/libnet/subj/), extensive links to government resources, and online access to a number of library services such as electronic course reserves, media booking, document delivery, and interlibrary loan. LIBNET is accessible within the libraries from 49 public workstations and three library classrooms, and outside the libraries from campus computer laboratories, faculty offices, and residence halls. Off-campus access is also available 24 hours a day to authenticated users (students, faculty, and staff). A distance learning support page (http://www.libraries.wright.edu/dl/) provides users with instructions and links for connecting to LIBNET and accessing library resources from home.
The Dunbar Library Reference and Instruction Department, the primary service point for students and faculty in the College of Education and Human Services, is staffed by nine professional librarians, three full‑time associates, and two part‑time associates. Reference service is provided in the library, by telephone, and by e-mail; reference librarians are available in Dunbar Library 84 hours per week. The department also provides in-depth research consultations and librarian-mediated online database searches by appointment, as well as classroom presentations tailored to the needs of individual classes. The Education Librarian is responsible for developing the education and human services collections in consultation with faculty in the College of Education and Human Services, and for providing specialized reference service and instruction to users from the college.
The Fordham Library Reference and Instruction Department is staffed by seven professional librarians, and offers the same services as those available in the Dunbar Reference Department. Reference service is available in the Fordham Library 67 hours per week.
Library instruction sessions offered by both libraries include classroom presentations tailored to the needs of individual classes, credit courses, and open workshops for the university community. Three training rooms are available for library instruction sessions on the second and third floors of Dunbar Library. Training Center A, where the majority of the sessions are taught, is equipped with 27 PC workstations and an instructor workstation connected to an overhead projector. Training Center B also has an instructor workstation with overhead projector, but has 13 PC workstations for student use. Training Center C is a more traditional classroom, with an instructor workstation with overhead projector and a VCR.
COLLECTIONS
Holdings of the Paul Lawrence Dunbar Library include over 615,000 bound volumes, 1.2 million microforms, 350,000 U.S. and Ohio documents, 4,200 current periodical subscriptions, and 9,000 videocassettes and other media. Of these holdings, more than 34,000 volumes in education and 30,000 volumes in psychology and the social sciences support teaching and research in the College of Education and Human Services. Over 75% of these works were published since 1980, with 45% published after 1990. The Dunbar Library also receives more than 300 subscriptions in education and human services-related areas. Holdings of the Fordham Health Sciences Library include over 119,000 bound volumes, 1,300 periodical titles, and 3,126 videocassettes and other media. The Fordham Library’s strong collection in clinical psychology provides additional support for human services research. These print resources are supplemented by the University Libraries’ subscriptions to electronic resources such as JSTOR, Social Sciences Index, Mental Measurements Yearbook, and HAPI: Health and Psychosocial Instruments.
Funds for library collections in general have increased steadily over the past few years, as has funding for materials in education and human services. In fiscal year 2000, $60,800 was expended for new books in education and human services, and subscription expenditures totaled $35,746. In addition, the state of Ohio has demonstrated an extraordinary level of support for its academic libraries through its funding of OhioLINK, a consortium of 79 Ohio college and university libraries. OhioLINK’s resources and services include: combined holdings of over seven million titles; nearly 100 electronic research databases (including many citation indexes with links to full-text articles); the Electronic Journal Center; the Digital Media Center; a collection of nearly 17,000 electronic books; an online catalog from which students and faculty may request materials from other OhioLINK libraries; and a delivery service to shuttle the requested materials to the local campus. Membership in OhioLINK has also significantly leveraged local purchasing power for the Wright State University Libraries, as consortium-wide discounts have been negotiated for both electronic and print purchases.
The OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center provides the full text of current and back issues (1995-2001) of approximately 4,000 journals published by Academic Press, the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Physics, the American Physical Society, Blackwell Publishers, Blackwell Science, Elsevier, the Institute of Physics, Kluwer, MCB, Project Muse, the Royal Society of Chemistry, Springer-Verlag, Thieme, and Wiley. This large electronic collection supplements Wright State's print subscriptions, adding more than 50 education titles to the 311 titles Wright State receives in print, for example. Back issues of these electronic titles are owned and archived by OhioLINK, and thus constitute a permanent collection shared by OhioLINK libraries.
The following databases available through OhioLINK are some of the most useful for students and faculty doing research in education. The asterisk indicates that full text articles are available as part of the database. Citations in the other listed databases link directly to the full text article if it is available in the Electronic Journal Center:
Education Abstracts (1983+)*
ERIC (1966+)
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe*
Library Literature (1984+)
Periodical Abstracts (1986+)*
PsycINFO (1887+)
Social Sciences Citation Index (1980+)
Sociological Abstracts (1963+)
In addition to electronic resources, the print resources of other OhioLINK member libraries are readily available to Wright State faculty and staff through user-initiated online borrowing, with a 3-4 day typical turnaround time for delivery of books. Traditional interlibrary loan service beyond the OhioLINK membership is also provided.
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