See a list of upcoming events and workshops at the library.
Taking a course at the Lexington or Savannah Center, a regional site, or perhaps an online or distance learning course? We can help!
Students, faculty, and staff of Jackson State Community College may request materials to be purchased by the JSCC Library.
The library has a comprehensive Library Instruction program.
The Jackson State Community College Library has a meeting/study room with comfortable seating for 6-10 people.
The faculty, staff and students of Jackson State Community College are entitled to check out library materials.
Browse through JSCC history with digital copies of our first five yearbooks, from 1968 to 1972.
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Taking a course at the Lexington or Savannah Center, a regional site, or perhaps an online or distance learning course? We can help!
The JSCC Library is committed to serving the information needs of distance students and faculty. Many unique services and resources are available to the distance learning community.
The Gibson County Center Learning Resource Center and the JSCC Library are here to help you with you with your distance education needs.
The Learning Resource Center is open Monday - Friday from 8 AM to 4:30 PM. If the LRC Assistant is not available, then please contact someone in the main office.
Sherry Channell, Director, (731) 424-3520 (ext. 58836)
Gibson County Center
The Lexington-Henderson County Center Learning Resource Center and the JSCC Library are here to help you with you with your distance education needs.
The Learning Resource Center is open from 8 AM- 8 PM and 8 AM to 4:30 PM on Fridays. If the LRC Assistant is not available, then please contact someone in the main office.
Deborah Wilson, Learning Resource Center Assistant, (731) 968-5722 or (731) 424-3520 (ext. 50665)
Sandy Stanfill, Director, (731) 968-5722 or (731) 424-3520, (ext. 50660)
Lexington-Henderson County Center
The Savannah-Hardin County Center LRC and the JSCC Library are here to help you with you with your distance education needs.
Savannah-Hardin County Center
Students, faculty, and staff of Jackson State Community College may request materials to be purchased by the JSCC Library. Use the Recommendations for Library Materials form to submit a request.
Please verify in our catalog beforehand that we do not previously own what you are requesting unless you are requesting a second copy.
The library has a comprehensive Library Instruction program. Performing research and practicing information literacy techniques help students develop critical thinking and analytical skills that are essential for school, the workplace, and lifelong learning.
We're here to help faculty integrate research assignments into their curriculum and help students complete them effectively while learning vital information literacy skills.
To schedule a Library Instruction session, please use our online Library Instruction Request.
The Jackson State Community College Library has a small meeting/study room known as the Van Veatch Room. It has a table with comfortable seating for 6-10 people. There is a telephone and wireless access to the Internet. Food and drinks may be served there.
1. Reservations should be made with the library staff. Reservations can be made in person at the library front desk, or by calling 425-2609.
2. Two or more students can reserve the room.
3. People reserving the Van Veatch room should state their reason for using it, as well as give the name, phone number and email address of a contact person.
4. JSCC personnel and students may reserve the Van Veatch room for College business, meetings, training or study, but the room may not be reserved for personal or commercial reasons.
5. The Van Veatch room is for persons affiliated with the College only.
6. The Van Veatch room can be reserved up to one week in advance. Groups of two or more people may reserve the room for periods up to 3 hours
7. A group can request up to another 2 hours, if no one else has reserved the room at the end of a first 3 hour session. One of the group members must come to the library front desk and request the additional time, as well as check to see if anyone else has reserved the room.
8. If a second group of people requests to reserve the room and it is already reserved, reservations will be held for 30 minutes. If no one shows up, the first reservation will be canceled and the second group will be given full access to the facility.
9. If a second group asks to reserve the room before an original group's first session in the room ends, then the first group must vacate the room at the start of the second group's reserve time.
10. If a second group asks to reserve the room after a first group has already reserved and started an additional session, the second group will have to wait until the first group's additional time is complete, up to the 2 hours allowed for a second session.
11. Groups must make a reservation every time they want to use the room.
1. Meetings must take place within library hours of operation. Groups must vacate Van Veatch room at least 15 minutes prior to the library's closing. For example, the library closes at 8:30 PM on a given night, the room is to be vacated by 8:15 PM.
2. Groups may serve non-alcoholic beverages and food in the Van Veatch Room. Clean-up is the responsibility of the group serving refreshments; the room is to be left in a clean and orderly condition.
3. If a group uses a coffeemaker, it is to be turned off, unplugged and cleaned before group vacates the room.
The faculty, staff and students of Jackson State Community College are entitled to check out library materials. The University of Memphis students at the Jackson State Center and the University of Tennessee at Martin students on the Jackson State campus are guided by the same policy. Members of the community can also check out library materials.
Identification cards issued to full-time students are used as library cards. These cards are usually obtained during the registration process.
First-time community borrowers are required to fill out a guest card and to present at least one type of identification, preferably a driver's license.
Materials may not be renewed if requested by another patron. The library reserves the right to recall immediately any materials needed by JSCC students or faculty.
Reference books and periodicals must be used in the library.
Students enrolled in courses off-campus are entitled to the same privileges as on-campus students. Materials may be mailed to them, if requested.
Overdue notices are sent to borrowers as a courtesy or reminder. However, any student having materials overdue at the end of the semester will have his or her grades withheld until the materials are paid for or returned.
The borrower is responsible for returning all library materials promptly and in good condition. Otherwise, the borrower will be charged for the loss or damage of a book. If a borrower finds a lost book (for which he/she has already paid) and returns it within a year and in good condition, the money will be refunded to the borrower.
Established in 1967 alongside the college's opening, the library later added a second story in 1972 as the college grew. The college has been home to three librarians since it's opening, with Ms. Henrietta Henderson serving as the first library director until 1968 when Mr. Van Veatch took over. Following Veatch's retirement in 1991, Scott Cohen became the 3rd Library Director, continuing to build the library’s legacy during his 50+ year tenure.