FALL AND SPRING HOURS:
Monday through Thursday:
8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Friday:
8 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

SUMMER SEMESTER HOURS:
Monday through Thursday:
8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Friday:
8 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

The Learning Resources Center is vital to the educational program at VGCC. The LRC combines traditional library resources with the latest technology to serve the information needs of students, faculty, staff and residents of the College's four-county service area. The LRC supports the total educational program by providing reference and instructional support services, print and non-print media, computerized indexes, online databases, and automated catalog, and audio-visual equipment.

The collection is comprised of a broad range of subjects with diverse viewpoints, allowing students to research their specific field of study as well as general interest material. When selecting materials, the LRC staff gives careful consideration to institutional goals, course offerings, the composition of the student body and community needs.

Patron Services Improve With LRC's New CCLINC System

The Learning Resources Center at Vance-Granville Community College has gone "high-tech," resulting in improved services and expanded information for students and community patrons.

With the recent implementation of the state-wide Community College Libraries in North Carolina (CCLINC) system, the VGCC library now participates with 40 other colleges across the state in an automated system designed to make library service faster and more efficient, while enormously increasing access to materials.

The CCLINC is a statewide consortium of 40 community college Learning Resource Centers (LRCs) that share magazines, videos and other educational materials via a computer physically located in Raleigh. Housed in the offices of the North Carolina Community College System, this computer is operated by a shared-system administrator. VGCC is connected to this computer through the Internet as it globally shares materials and patron databases.

Because of this cooperative effort, access to materials for VGCC patrons has increased from 40,000 volumes to approximately 1,000,000 since the connection was made. This type of resource sharing has decisively increased the ability of the VGCC library to serve students and all patrons in the four-county area.