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About an hour north of San Marcos, there exists a satellite location of the Alkek Library: Round Rock Campus (RRC) Library Services. The staff of this library provides Texas State students, staff, and faculty with individual attention.
The RRC opened in August 2005 with the Avery Building, a 125,000 square-foot building comprising 40 classrooms and eight computer labs, as well as faculty offices, a counseling clinic, a student lounge, several conference rooms and the library. Course offerings include business, education, psychology, and criminal justice. To accommodate the new Texas State School of Nursing, the RRC opened its second building, the 77,740 square-foot, state-of-the-art Nursing Building, in 2010.
To meet the demands of our growing campus, RRC Library Services recently underwent a significant expansion. We now offer students a quiet study room (the only designated quiet study area on campus), as well as a library instruction room, complete with 27 computers. Our main area has been renovated to accommodate group collaboration. We installed two wall-mounted TVs which serve as computer monitors, so groups can work on online programs together.
As a non-traditional library, RRC Library Services offers a small collection of books and
periodicals and extensive electronic resources. The staff includes head librarian Anthony Guardado; evening reference and instruction librarian Julie Chapa; and library assistant Alan Matthews. With few exceptions, a librarian is on duty anytime the library is open. Research assistance, as well as instructional support for classes in various disciplines, is provided to Texas State faculty and students.
Students, faculty, and staff can access the Alkek Library’s databases and e-books online. According to Guardado, students and staff are usually surprised to discover the quantity of resources available, as well as the level of service provided.
One popular service is document delivery. Texas State faculty and students working and studying at RRC have access to all of the materials at the Alkek Library. If a patron needs an item from the Alkek Library’s collection, they can request it by filling out an online form. The Alkek Library’s Interlibrary Loan staff fulfills the requests by sending them via courier to the RRC. Thanks to interdepartmental cooperation, turnaround time from request to delivery of an item is usually one to two days.
More information can be found at http://rrc.library.txstate.edu/ or by phone at 512.716.4700 (from the San Marcos campus dial toll-free at extension 64700). You can also chat with a librarian via the Ask-a-Librarian@RRC online feature.
-- Submitted by Julie Chapa, Evening Reference and Instruction Librarian