Nashville State Community College
Catalog
Kisber Library
(Phone: 615-353-3555)
The Kisber Library facilitates learning and research for Nashville State students, staff, and faculty with an extensive collection of books, periodicals, and audio-visual materials. The Library also provides space for private and group study.
Fully automated, the Library features an online catalog, ebook collections, and periodical databases. By using their A# and pin number, students can gain access to electronic databases from off campus. The Library subscribes to databases that cover the social sciences and humanities. The Library also subscribes to databases in the following specific subject areas: business, literature, health sciences, music, art, technology, and Spanish. As well as more than 50,000 books in its on-campus collection, the Library owns more than 38,000 NetLibrary ebooks as well as subscribing to Safari, an online technical book collection. Electronic reference materials can also be found at the Web page, including English and foreign language dictionaries, thesauruses, quotation books, atlases, and a comprehensive series of subject dictionaries.
The Library also provides interlibrary loan services for student and faculty. Students from Nashville State also may check out a NALA card that will allow them to enter Vanderbilt University and conduct research in any one of the University's main subject libraries. All Nashville State students may also visit any other TBR library to do research with limited check-out privileges.
There is an orientation at the Library Web site for students who can not come to campus or who need a refresher on library services. There is also an "Ask the Librarian" link on the library homepage so that students may send research questions to the library staff; these are answered within 24 hours.
The Library is open to the public, although children must be accompanied by an adult. All patrons must observe library guidelines available at the circulation desk.
Kisber Library hours are as follows during fall and spring semesters:
Monday - Thursday 7:45 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Friday 7:45 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Saturday 9:00 a.m. - 2 p.m.
(During fall and spring break and between semesters, hours are Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.)
For further information, contact the Library staff at 615-353-3555 or visit their website.