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Information Services

Dean: Gary J. Koeven

Office: Val A. Browning Library

Phone: (435) 652-7770

E-mail: koeven@dixie.edu

Library Services

Information Technology and Academic Computing

Smith Computer Center

Instructional Technology Center

Short Term Intensive Training

Library Services

Office: LIB 109, (435) 652-7711

Website: Library.dixie.edu

The Browning Library at Dixie State College of Utah is a three-story building that contains approximately 100,000 volumes, 330 periodical subscriptions (journals, magazines and newspapers) and 6500 audiovisual titles.  An extensive collection of Library of American Civilization and Library of English Literature microfiche is available.  The continually growing collection is geared to meet the educational and curricular needs of the students, faculty and staff, as well as provide them with recreational reading material.  With the addition of four-year degrees, the library has strengthened the collection to include the upper-division materials needed to support the degrees offered.  The library recently began a multi-year process of converting the collection from the Dewey Decimal to the Library of Congress classification system.

Available in the library building are group study rooms, individual study carrels, individual and group viewing areas, listening areas, photocopiers, a library instruction classroom, and a student computer lab.  The professional staff provides individual reference assistance, class library orientations and library user instructions.  The library services acquaint students with the online public access catalog (iPac), reference materials, research databases, the Internet and searching strategies.  A self-paced, online course, Introduction to Information Retrieval, helps students learn about standard library resources and how to use them effectively, as well as about the World Wide Web.

iPac, the library’s electronic catalog, operates on the Horizon system that is used in academic libraries statewide, and can be searched through any personal computer located on campus or through the Internet.  Over seventy  online, full-text periodical and newspaper databases are available through the library’s web page.  Live chat help sessions with professional librarians are also available 24/7 on the web page.

For specialized research in Western history, with emphasis on Southern Utah, or Utah’s Dixie and the Arizona Strip, students may access special collections/archives which contain secondary-source journals and family histories of local-area citizens and early pioneers.  The Dixie State College archives are also housed there.

To check out library materials, a Dixie State College of Utah identification card is needed for full-time students.  Part-time students may obtain library privileges upon request and with proof of enrollment.  Some fee-based library privileges are extended to the local community.

Library Hours:

FALL AND SPRING SEMESTER

SUMMER

Closed weekends and holidays

Special Collections and Archives:

FALL AND SPRING SEMESTER

Other times by appointment.

SUMMER

By appointment

Information Technology and Academic Computing

Information technology:

Academic computing: 

Director: Mary Stubbs

Office: SCC     (435) 652-7854

Email: stubbs@dixie.edu

Information Technology Support Services work cooperatively with academic departments to provide necessary services and to assist in providing innovative learning resources for students, faculty, staff and the community.

Dixie State College of Utah provides two open access labs (library basement and Smith Computer Center) and several additional computer equipped special use labs and classrooms.  The open access labs contain approximately 210 networked and stand alone workstations.  Full access to the Internet is available on all machines.  Limited printing is available to students free of charge.  Lab hours average 80 hours per week during the course of the semester including evening, weekend and holiday hours.  A somewhat restricted schedule is followed between semesters and during holidays.

Benefits extended to students in the labs are: a high-speed internet connection, E-Mail accounts, lab assistants who are willing to answer questions, state of the art equipment and scanner and a photo-quality color printer.

Programs available for students include: Microsoft Office Suite and Corel Office Suite, various programming languages and course related software.

Smith Computer Center

The Smith Computer Center is a facility which provides an innovative approach to both computer instruction and homework support on the Dixie State College of Utah campus.  Located in the Avenna Center complex on 700 East, the center houses approximately 225 computers and allows a variety of instruction options.  It is one of the open access labs referred to under Academic Computing.  The Smith Computer Center provides:

Instructional Technology Center

 Director: Jared Johnson

 Office: SSC (435) 652-7950

 Email: johnson@dixie.edu

The Faculty Assistance Center is an instructional technology lab where many kinds of information resources are available to promote the educational growth of the faculty and staff at Dixie State College and to encourage excellence in teaching. The purposes for the center are:

Faculty and staff members may use the facilities in the center to develop curriculum materials and to improve their computer skills.  The center is available for faculty and staff use from 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Monday-Friday and is equipped with high-end multimedia computers (IBM-compatible and Macintosh) and software for producing instructional media using the latest instructional technologies.  All PCs are networked and connected to the Internet.

Faculty and staff members may use the center resources for consultation on design and development of instructional materials, producing instructional media (multimedia presentations, computer-based training, internet web pages, graphics, digital video, etc.), computer training (workshops, interactive self-paced learning, one-on-one tutoring, etc.) And to access technology-related reference materials (books, magazines, etc.)

There is no cost for faculty members to use the faculty assistance center except for minimal charges to cover consumable supplies, such as printer toner, paper and transparencies.

Short Term Intensive Training

 Director: Jill Elliss

 Office: (435) 652-7751

 Email: ellis_j@dixie.edu

Short Term Intensive Training is specific training tailored to the needs of the individual, community, business or industry.  Short term training programs have the following elements:

If training needs are not being met, the coordinator may be contacted for more information.