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Welcome!
The Library at Virginia Highlands Community College works with the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center to provide resources and assistance to students enrolled in classes at the SVHEC. Students are welcomed and encouraged to make use of the library at Virginia Highlands. The library is located on the first floor of the Learning Resources Center (LRC) building on the main campus of Virginia Highlands Community College next to parking lot 4.
Available Resources
Some of the materials available include books (including best sellers in our McNaughton collection), magazines, newspapers, computers, cassettes, videos, plus topographic maps and art prints.
Computer Access
The Virginia Highlands Community College Library provides free access to the Internet and word processing on several computers. To access the Internet, choose Netscape or Internet Explorer. Choose VHCC library home page from the VHCC page on any VHCC computer to access the on site library web page. To access the library from an off-campus location, type www.vhcc.edu/library. Personal assistance is available in the VHCC library to students wanting to access their home institution library via the Internet.
Virtual Library of Virginia
The Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA) is an important resource for Virginia libraries. VIVA is a consortium of academic libraries with a goal to increase availability of information through cooperative consortium of academic libraries with a goal to increase availability of information through cooperative purchasing to students and faculty. Through VIVA, which is available from any VHCC computer with Netscape, as well as for staff and students on their personal computers, the on site library offers many full-text articles from magazines, journals, and newspapers.
The Information Resources web page, which can be accessed from Popular Links on the VHCC home page, is both an alphabetical and subject listing of all titles available through VIVA and the Virginia Community College System. Also, there is access to Research Guides that have been created by librarians in the VCCS.
DatabasesMany of the full-text articles are readily available from databases linked to the VHCC Library home page, under Popular Links.
InfoTrac — a magazine indexing system which has full-text articles and some abstracts and citations. There is a wide variety of subject areas covered in the various databases offered through InfoTrac.
SIRS (Social Issues Research Series) provide access to newspaper and magazine articles on a variety of current topics.
ProjectMuse contains journals published electronically by the Johns Hopkins Press-cover a wide variety of subjects, humanities, mathematics, medicine and social sciences.
FirstSearch can be used to find books, articles, films, computer software and other types of materials world-wide on the subject you need.
FirstSearch contains WorldCat the Internet version of OCLC (Online Computer Library Center). If you cannot find the title you want in WorldCat, it may be difficult for us to locate it for you on interlibrary loan.
SVHEC Library Services Web Site
A Library Services page is available off of the main SVHEC web site at http://www.swcenter.edu/pages/library_services.asp. This page features links to all of the various home institution libraries. Also included is an "Ask a Librarian" feature, which allows students to e-mail questions to the librarians at Virginia Highlands Community College. Librarians will provide assistance with specific course needs.
ID Cards
A bar coded student photo identification card is available to students attending the Southwest VA Higher Education Center institutions from the VHCC Library. Ask for yours!
Be sure to ask a staff member for assistance or information.
Updated 2/06