University of South Carolina Libraries
Thomas Cooper Library Welcomes New USC Students Thomas Cooper library offers you: • quiet study spaces and small group study rooms • a computer lab with over 150 computers for word processing, sending e-mail, and surfing the net, plus an image scanner and a typewriter • photocopiers, the reserve desk, and interlibrary loan service • thousands of journals, magazines, newspapers, subject indexes, on virtually any topic in paper, microform and electronic formats - and, of course, millions of books • special libraries for science, education, government documents, maps, and rare books, and separate libraries for business, music, math, and South Caroliniana materials • access from your computer in your dorm room to new web-based subject indexes and encyclopedias, as well as the libraries' online catalog, USCAN and HELP! Reference Librarians are on duty to help you learn to use the library and our resources, and to assist you with those tough research problems. Circulation staff and student shelvers can assist you with finding items located in the seven story Thomas Cooper Library building. (BTW five of those floors are underground). Thomas Cooper Library Fall 1999 Hours Monday - Friday 7:30 am - Midnight Saturday 10 am - 8 pm Sunday 1 pm - Midnight Library Web addresses to bookmark on your computer University Libraries www.sc.edu/library/ Electronic Resources www. sc. edu/library/pubserv/resgu ide. html Email Reference www. sc. edu/library/pubserv/eref. html Welcome Week Tours Monday, August 16 - Friday, August 20 at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Invest an hour in your future and learn your way around the library & about some of the electronic resources available to you. Important Phone Numbers Hours: 777-8169 Circulation: 777-3145 Reference: 777-4866 Science Reference: 777-3151 Computer Lab: 777-0244