Jackson County Campus

E-Reserves

PERSONNEL

Pam Ladner		e-mail: pamela.ladner@mgccc.edu
Asst Dean of LRC		phone: (228) 497-7642
Library Director
Gwendolyn Carter		e-mail: gwendolyn.carter@mgccc.edu
Librarian		phone: (228) 497-7715
Tim Koehn		e-mail: tim.koehn@mgccc.edu
Librarian		phone: (228) 497-7716
Johanna Martin		e-mail: johanna.martin@mgccc.edu
Secretary		phone: (228) 497-7825
Elizabeth Minter		e-mail: elizabeth.minter@mgccc.edu
Secretary		phone: (228) 497-7830
Doug Mansfield		e-mail: paul.mansfield@mgccc.edu
Television Studio		phone: (228) 497-7621
Technician
Paula Thorp		e-mail: paula.thorp@mgccc.edu
LRC Technician		phone: (228) 497-7891

 Hours

Fall & Spring	Monday - Thursday	7:30 A.M. - 8:00 P.M.
	Friday	7:30 A.M. - 3:30 P.M.
Summer	Monday - Thursday	7:30 A.M. - 7:00 P.M.
	Friday	7:30 A.M. - 3:00 P.M.
Closed all college holidays

 Library Mission Statement

The Mission of the library at the Mississippi Gulf Coast community College is to provide instructional support services that reinforce the curriculum of the college.  We accomplish this by providing a well-trained staff, excellent resources and accessible facilities.  We both encourage and assist students to use the resources of our library to meet their personal needs and educational goals.

  Library Collections...

The Jackson County Campus Library collection is housed in a comfortable, large, and well-lighted facility providing access to reference and general collections of approximately 35,000 books; 26,000 e-books; 180 non-circulating periodicals; and 3,400 audiovisual materials (circulate only to faculty and staff). In addition, the library has an online catalog system, Sirsi, that provides immediate linking to the holdings of all three MGCCC campuses; the Mississippi state funded Magnolia Project (journal databases); and an Internet accessible computer network of 24 computers that allow the JC library to provide a variety of computer databases for research purposes. The library offers interlibrary loan services to retrieve items from the other two campus libraries and other state and national libraries

GENERAL COLLECTION

Current MGCCC students or employees may check out materials at the Jackson County Campus Library. Any currently enrolled USM Gulf Park or Keesler Air Force Base student may check out JC Library books. Community members are also welcome to check out books from the library collection. Please contact the library at (228) 497-7830 for additional information. Books are checked out for a three week period, and may be renewed once if not on hold. If books are not returned by the semester’s end, borrowers will be blocked from further library use pending return of materials or payment of replacement costs.

REFERENCE BOOKS AND RESERVES

Reference books and reserves do not circulate outside the library. The reserve collection is located at the information desk. Reserve materials meet the following criteria:

1.                 The material is required or optional reading for one or more courses currently being taught.

2.                 The material is not available in quantity.

To place an item on reserve, a reserve form, available at the information desk, must be filled out and given to a librarian. Faculty should emphasize to students that, unless otherwise arranged, reserves are intended to guarantee equal access by all and are so limited to in-library use only.