2015-2016 Catalog

Learning Resources Center/Library

The Learning Resources Center (LRC) at each campus supports the academic programs and university information literacy program with both traditional and electronic instructional resources and services. Although floor plans vary from campus to campus, each LRC provides library resources, computers, and career services support. The Wilkes Library, which serves as the main library and is located at the Washington Campus, coordinates library services and collection development for all campus LRCs.

Combined library holdings include approximately 105,000 books, 1,000 periodicals on subscription, and 1,000 audio-visuals for faculty classroom use. Through the library’s online catalog, circulating books can be located and requested from any of the LRC collections. The inter-campus delivery service provides timely delivery of requested materials. Books circulate for three weeks and are renewable. Reference books, reserve items, periodicals, and other special collection items are available for in-LRC use only.

On the Internet, the Learning Resources Center section of the Strayer University web site https://icampus.strayer.edu/campus-library/learning-resources-center enhances the information resources available to all students. Users may access the library’s online catalog and a number of informational databases which provide indexing and full text retrieval for many source documents in addition to over 75,000 eBooks. Students must login to take advantage of all available resources, including the ASK YOUR LIBRARIAN email reference service.  These same resources can be found through use of the Resource Center tab in any course shell or directly at http://research.strayer.edu.  

The Librarian’s Office works with the Library and Information Literacy Advisory Committee, individual faculty, and in accordance with library planning documents to collect print and non-print resources. The collection emphasizes accounting, business administration (business, health services, public), and information systems, although materials are collected to support all programs, general electives, career and information and individual growth.

The computer labs at each campus support classes in a number of programs. The labs have high-speed Internet connections and provide an environment to learn about networking fundamentals; programming languages such as Java and C++; application packages such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint; and operating systems such as UNIX and Windows.