Tired of reading textbooks? Need some holiday reading? Check out the new books shelf adjacent to the main entrance.

Happy Holidays -- the Stoxen Library staff.

The Common Grounds coffee bar finally has its dry run!

The first cups, good to the last....! Pictured are Dr. Rich Brauhn, Vice-President of Academic Affairs and Shawna Egli, Educational Enhancement Services staff, enjoying the first pot of coffee on today's dry run of the Common Grounds Coffee Bar. The coffee bar, the first Dickinson location serving Starbucks coffee, will have a soft opening in early January. Watch this blog for announcements of the grand opening to come early in 2007!

The Library has thousands of e-books for your use

Stoxen Library provides access to over 12,000 e-books for your use!

A whole lot of checkouts

Stoxen Library checked out 22,057 items to students, 3,113 to faculty, 1,014 to staff, 999 to off-campus patrons, and 340 items as interlibrary loans.

Even more statistics

In fiscal year 2006, Stoxen Library staff answered 13,624 reference questions and circulated over 22,000 items. The online licensed databases received 112,737 searches!

More numbers

In fiscal year 06 Stoxen Library added 1,568 books to the collection and 4,897 issues of periodicals (journals and magazines).

Statistical Highlights

Statistical snapshots:

Stoxen Library's holdings includes 164,567 volumes, including 5,970 videos, DVDs, and music CDs. Additionally the library owns 12,238 e-books, and subscribes to 21,000 print and online journal titles. Patrons can access 77 licensed databases via the Library web page.