Library Services


The Navarro College Libraries serve students, faculty, and staff at four locations in Corsicana, Mexia, Midlothian, and Waxahachie as well as students enrolled in online classes. The library’s core collection includes over 56,000 print books and 35,000 eBooks as well as the online Credo Reference Library. Through online and print serials subscriptions, the library provides access to the full text of thousands of magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals. Online resources include a complete streaming video collection of The BBC Shakespeare Plays.

Interlibrary loan services enable students to borrow materials from libraries throughout the United States while intercampus loan services ensure to students at the Mexia, Midlothian, and Waxahachie locations can readily access books and other materials in the Richard M. Sanchez Library on the Corsicana campus. A librarian will, upon request of faculty on any campus, provide formal classroom instruction in the efficient use of the library’s information resources. Video tutorials on the use of library materials and services can be found on the library’s website. A number of course-specific online library Libguides provide a wealth of additional instructional material on subjects such as plagiarism, citation formats, research methods, and evaluating and using internet resources.

The library contains a laptop Kiosk with 30 laptops available for checkout. The Sanchez Library also offers classroom and conference room spaces. Group-study rooms for small (2-6 students) study groups may be reserved in the Sanchez Library.

The Samuels’ Hobbit Collection, a unique collection of thirty-eight wood sculptures representing characters from J. R. R. Tolkien’s novel The Lord of the Rings, is on display in the library.

For more information, visit the library’s web site at https://www.navarrocollege.edu/library/index.html.

 

Navarro College is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) to award associate and baccalaureate degrees. Navarro College also may offer credentials such as certificates and diplomas at approved degree levels. Questions about the accreditation of Navarro College may be directed in writing to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097, by calling (404) 679-4500, or by using information available on SACSCOC's website (www.sacscoc.org).