The document provides an overview of the library resources and services available to new faculty at Jackson State University. It describes the main library and four branch libraries on campus. Services include library instruction, course reserves, interlibrary loans, and media viewing. The main library has five floors that house collections, study spaces, computer workstations, and administrative offices. Digital innovation spaces are also available for faculty. The library collections include print and electronic books, databases, periodicals, media, and archives. Registration is requested for orientation sessions to familiarize new faculty with the library.

1. New Faculty Orientation
August 17, 2015
Jama Lumumba
Assistant Director and Coordinator of Public Services
Library and Information Resources

3.  H. T. Sampson
Library (Main)
 4 Branch Libraries
 1. Cleopatra
Thompson
Curriculum
Center (College of Education
– 3rd fl. Joseph H. Jackson Bldg.)
 2. Health Sciences
Library (Medical Mall)
 3. Information
Services Library
(Universities Center -North
campus)
 4. Jake Ayers
Research Library
(E-Center - South campus)

4.  1. Library instruction sessions (upon request)
 2. Course reserves
 3. Interlibrary loans
 4. Media services (individual & group viewing)
 5. Individual & small group rooms (quiet
spaces – 2nd & 3rd floors)

6.  1st floor – Circulation, 80 computer
workstations w/printer, JSU Online
Information Literacy, Richard
Wright Center, AND Coffee shop
(Starbucks)
 2nd floor – Periodicals, Reference,
Government Documents, Technical
Services, Library Auditorium &
W.E.B. DuBois study room
 3rd floor – General Collections
(print – A-N), Automation staff

7.  4th floor – General Collections (P-Z)
 Administration (Dean)
 Division of Research and Federal
Relations (University Scholars,
Advance & Intellectual Property)
 5th floor – University Archives, by
appointment only (dissertations,
theses, various departmental &
private collections)

8. The center is equipped with wireless, multimedia technology including touch-screen
Mondopads, podcast recording devices and collaborative workspaces to help faculty
move from concept to design to implementation of digital resources in one space.
Digital Intellectual Commons - Innovate

10. Digital Intellectual Commons - Create
Collaborative workspace for students, 9 Mac
Computers, 3 HP touchscreen computes, plotter
printer, 3D printer, green space (video
production), varied connectivity

12.  1. General collections (Print -
circulating/Semester)
 2. eBook Collection (EBSCO –
over 80,000 titles)
 3. Databases A-Z (EBSCO,
Proquest Dissertations/Theses,
SciFinder, Government Docs, IEEE,
Elsevier, LexisNexis, etc.)
 4. eJournals A-Z (EBSCO,
ACS, ACM, etc.)
 5. Periodicals (current & bound –
non circulating)
 6. Media collection
 7. University
Archives/Special
Collections (non-circulating,
preferably by appointment)

13. Hours: Monday-Thursday – 7:50 a.m.-12 midnight
Saturday – 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Sunday – 3:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m.
Contact: 601-979-2123 / library@jsums.edu

14.  Register for a 1-hour library training session:
Wednesday, August 19
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Friday, August 21
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.