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Owens Library contains some 250,000 book volumes, 30,000 e-books, 28,000 bound periodical volumes, 50,000 government documents, 16,000 microfilm reels and about one million microfiche. The library subscribes to nearly 800 journals and magazines in paper. It provides access to 20,000 electronic full-text journals and magazines. These materials are augmented by more than 60 commercial electronic databases. Owens Library is a part of MOBIUS, the Missouri academic library automated network. Without the intervention of library personnel, users, by means of the state-wide web-based catalog, can borrow from the circulating collection of any member library. The borrowed items are delivered in just a few days to a pick-up point convenient for the user. Both physical and electronic collections have been selected with care, and are constantly updated, to support the needs of students and faculty in academic and scholarly research, in maintaining knowledge of subjects of interest, and in reading for personal growth and enrichment.
Owens is known throughout the region and beyond for the technological sophistication of its library use instruction, for its vast array of web pages to inform and instruct on how to find and use information, and for its advanced services to distance learners. All of the subscription electronic databases that are offered by the library can be searched both from the residence halls and from off-campus residences over the Internet by registered Owens library patrons. Email and telephone reference are provided. At the same time, face-to-face service to in-house users is a high priority. Requests for assistance can be made at the Library Services Desk on the first floor. Also on the first floor are the library's collection of browsing books and the current issues of more popular magazines.
The Owens Library building is home to part of the campus Information Systems staff. The large computer lab on first floor is maintained by Information Systems and includes high speed and color printers. Other public computers on the first floor are administered by the library. On the second floor, the Electronic Lecture Room and the Training Room serve the entire campus community as instructional and presentation areas with a wide variety of projection and computing resources. The second floor is home to the Center for Information Technology Education (CITE) which administers the University's distance learning program, that is, courses offered over the World Wide Web. The campus Assessment Office with its own testing room is also on the second floor.
The Teaching Resources Area on the second floor includes the Media Support Center for help with audio-visuals, the audio-visual collection, and the campus curriculum library.
The main book stacks, and library carrels are on the third floor along with group study rooms. The Proctoring/Testing Center for special needs students is there as well. The entire third floor is a maximum quiet area. Throughout the building are areas for private study and reading as well as group tables. The entire building has wireless internet access.
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