Lenfest Library
Lenfest Library is housed in Lenfest Hall, along with the History Department and College Counseling. The library’s primary mission is to support the curriculum, but the library is also interwoven into the fabric of the Mercersburg community and provides recreational services and materials as well. The library is able to support both the academic and recreational needs of the community at large by housing more than 45,000 volumes, over 100 subscriptions to newspapers, magazines, and journals, over a dozen Online Databases, and maintaining a core collection of over 2,000 videos, DVDs, CDs and other media.
The librarians supply students, faculty and staff with timely, important information while encouraging them to become independent learners. This is proactively attained through bibliographic instruction and research support of the various classes, and the reference services offered throughout the day and during Evening Quiet Hours. The library’s main objective is to teach the skills that are important to information literacy during these bibliographic instruction sessions. Classes often come to the library so that they can subsequently use the library’s resources, or the librarians will travel to a class to provide the instructional services as needed, such as a lesson on citations or how to use a specific database or the Online Catalog.
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