The entrance to the library is on the second floor of the library building. The entire second floor of the library is a Talking Floor. Talking, socializing, group study, and cell phone use are permitted on the entire floor. Wireless Internet and network access is also available throughout the second floor. Physical network connections are also available in the study rooms, as well as in other areas on the floor.
Located on the second floor in the library are the following:
- Circulation area and front desk
- A digital copier/printer/scanner and a CSVT Terminal (use the CSVT Terminal to place money on your MSOE ID card). Copying is free with an MSOE ID card, and printing and scanning are also free.
- The Reference section
- The lounge area for paperback books, current newspapers, popular magazines, entertainment DVDs, library exhibits and new book displays
- The food and beverage vending machine café
- Eight laptop machines
- The Library is an Open Computer Lab
- Laptops feature Internet access
- Laptops feature access to the MSOE network
- Networked printer and copier is available
- Seven study rooms
- Study rooms 207 and 208 may be reserved for group study sessions (See Room Reservation Tutorial). Be sure to reserve rooms three days before needed.
- Study rooms are networked
- Section A through Z of the book collection is located on this floor; this is the entire circulating book collection
- LC classification system (alphanumeric call numbers)
- Click here to read a one-page tutorial on how the LC Call number system works
- Most AE and building construction books are in the TH and TK sections
- LC subject headings (controlled vocabulary)
- For example, "integrated circuits," not "computer chips"
- Approximately, 50,000 book volumes.
- More than one-half of the book collection is devoted to engineering, mathematics, physics, and chemistry
- LC classification system (alphanumeric call numbers)
- Three computers set up to search the Library Catalog
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