Contact info:

• Camille Beary (870)307-7444 [shhh] beary@lyon.edu
• Front Desk (870)307-7205
• Hours: Sun 2-Midnight, Mon thru Thru 8 a.m. to Mid, Fri 8-6, Sat noon-6

• On campus: library.lyon.edu or http://library.lyon.edu
• Off-campus: Get to a browser, find Lyonnet: http://www.lyon.edu/lyonnet/, choose Citrix
• Tutorials for learning about what the library has to offer and how to use it are located at: http://www.lyon.edu/webdata/groups/library/tutorials/index.asp. You’ll see the link to these in the right hand column at: library.lyon.edu
• The hours and services provided are at: http://www.lyon.edu/webdata/groups/library/Libraryservices.asp

Books, Videos, Dvds: Mabee-Simpson Library Catalog, WorldCat

• The first five are where you’ll find the most material: Academic Search Premier, Research Library, JSTOR, Project Muse.

• Full-text Electronic or Paper Journals will show you in a glance if we own a certain journal title or not, and it will point you to the online link, or tell you if we have the paper copy in the library.

• The Citation Finder is for those of you who know the citation and want to plug it in to see if we have the material. You have to have the title, journal title, date, etc. to use it.

Newspapers: LexisNexis, Newspaper Source, New York Times and the Wall Street Journal offer full-text articles from major newspapers in America and the world.

• Reference:Oxford Reference Collection, biographies, weather, time,
  zip coder finder, dictionaries.

• Topic Searches: If you know your topic and want only materials specific to your topic go here for Religion/Philosophy. Try ATLA. It has a lot of content for your specific subject: religions
• Regional Studies Center: A special collections of Ozark music and history.

If the library does not own a book you need, you can order the books from interlibrary loan while in WorldCat. There is a .50 cent fee and Ms. Whittenton will email or call you when they come in so you can pick them up. Articles can also be ordered and they cost .05 cents per page. See more information about interlibrary loan at this link:

• The Encyclopedia of American Religions, REF BL 2525.M449 1978 V. 2
  (Psychic, New Age, Magick) Look in table of contents.
• Dictionary of Comparative Religion REF BL 31.D54 1988b
  (Sikhism, index in back)
• Longman Guide to Living Religions REF BL 31.L66 1994
  (African traditional religions)
• Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience REF BL 2525.E53 1988 V.1
  (Native American Religions, Shamanism)
• Encyclopedia of Religion REF BL 31.E46 1987
  (North American Indian V. 10)
• Africa: South of the Sahara REF DT 351.E53
  (African religions)
• Encyclopedia of North American Indians REF E 76.2.E53
  (Religions)
• Native America in the Twentieth Century REF 76.2.N36
  (Has a section on religion before Christianity, etc.)

The BL section of Reference, and the BL section of the circulating collection are where most of these books are located.

There are about 30,000 ebooks in our collection and these books are completely online. You can find them in the "Book, Video, and Dvd page at: http://www.lyon.edu/webdata/groups/library/books.asp

Scroll down through the list and click on "Netlibrary" and you can view them. These books are also listed in the Mabee Simpson Library Catalog. When you see one listed it will have [computer file] next to the title. Click on the URL and follow the links into the book.