Library

The Henry G. Bennett Memorial Library provides materials and services to meet the information needs of faculty and students, both on campus and remotely. The library is open seventy-four and a half hours a week with Reference Services available sixty-five and a half hours a week by a librarian. In addition to face-to-face instruction, the library provides online tutorials to assist distance education students.

The library’s collection holds approximately 195,000 monograph volumes, over 590,000 microform units, and subscriptions to almost 3,000 periodical titles. The library serves as a regional depository and review center for Oklahoma State adopted textbooks and is a United States Government Document Depository, which selects about thirty percent of government publications annually, giving a collection total of almost 133,000 items. The Library also serves as a depository of Oklahoma State Documents, with a collection of approximately 10,000 documents.

The Library belongs to AMIGOS Bibliographic Network and is a member of OCLC. The Library has signed reciprocal agreements with both networks to provide and receive materials to and from other member libraries within the state and nation. Interlibrary Loan request forms are available in electronic format through the Public Access Catalog, electronic resources, and the ILL webpage.

The library subscribes to a number of electronic resources that are accessible from the webpage which include but are not limited to EBSCOHost, JSTOR, ACS Chemistry, Communication and Mass Media Complete, BioOne Complete, JoVE, MLA, Oxford Music Online, Project Muse, and PsycARTICLES.

The library continues to grow and embrace technology to provide superior quality service to Southeastern users. The library houses 48 pods equipped with computers (both Dell and Mac), printers, and scanners. Students have access to the Internet, the library’s electronic resources and online databases, and programs such as Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Publisher, and Outlook) and Mathematica.

The library houses the Textbook Reserve Program (TRP) which provides textbooks for all general education classes, remedial classes, and other selected undergraduate classes, with the exception of e-Textbooks and Rental only copies.

Due to Covid, textbooks can no longer be checked out for a two-hour period for in-house use only. Instead, the student makes a request for the textbook and page numbers needed and a scanned copy is emailed to them.