Waggoner Library provides access to the latest research, including print materials, eBooks, and thousands of online journals searchable from databases, plus streaming video, DVDs, newspapers, and more.
Library digital resources are available 24/7 from https://library.trevecca.edu
Off-campus access to electronic resources may require you to provide your Trevecca username and password.
Discovery, available on the library website, provides access to all library collections, resources, and services. By using the Discovery search box you can search the collection by a variety of types of formats in one place. The video below introduces you to Discovery searching. For more Discovery videos about finding books or journal articles click the Library Tools & Services page on the left menu.
The library provides access to computers in several ways. The use of these computers is limited to enrolled Trevecca students.
Guests and campus visitors can use the four open-access computers located on the main floor of the library. Printing is limited.
Additionally, the library checks out various types of charging cables and HDMI cables.
The library's physical collection includes books for checkout and reference works, audiobooks, newspapers, young adult literature, graphic novels, adulting titles, exemplary children's books, music scores, DVDs, CDs, and print journals.
The music collection, young adult titles, DVDs, and CDs are located on the library's ground floor.
Reference works, print journals, audiobooks, newspapers, graphic novels, adulting titles, and dissertations are located on the library's main floor.
Books for checkout are found on the library's top floor (second floor). See the Books tab above.
The children's collection is housed in the ELC, the library's ground floor. Children's titles are identified in the online catalog with JUV preceding the call number.
Discovery, available on the library website, provides access to all library collections, resources, and services. By using the Discovery search box, you can search the collection in various formats in one place.
How to Find Print Books in Waggoner
Waggoner Library, like many other academic libraries, uses the Library of Congress Classification System for organizing books. Many school and public libraries use the Dewey Decimal System. When you look up a print book or other physical items in the library catalog (which is found in the middle of our homepage), you will get a record that looks like this:
In order to find the book on the shelf, pay attention to the availability section.
(If you need more information about finding a certain book or a book about a certain subject in our library catalog, click here.)
Status: If a book is here, it should say "Available." If it is checked out, it will read "Checked Out, Due _____."
Location: Main Collection (upper level), or Main Reference (main level), or ELC Collection (lower level). Periodicals, audio/visual materials, sheet music, popular materials, and items on reserve for a class will have other locations too. If an item is marked as "oversize" it is probably located on the upper level outside study room 211a.
Call Number: It helps to write this down or take a picture with your phone to take with you to the stacks. Find the labels on the outer areas of the stacks to locate the alphabetical range of your desired book.
Ranges continue across the aisle. The rows begin with As down by the rotunda/windows, and end with the Zs near the restrooms.
Locate the book by reading the labels on the spines of the book. They are arranged in alphabetical order by call number, and then in numerical order within that section. The sections continue along one shelf, then down the entire bookcase, before starting again at the top shelf of the next bookcase. Sometimes it can be hard to tell where one bookcase ends and another begins but look for the metal divider to help with this.
If you can't find a book on the shelf, ask at the main floor services desk! We are happy to help!
Search a list of databases by subject area, just click the link below.
Over 200,000 eBooks are a part of the library's collection. Online access is 24/7.
The Discovery Search via the library website provides access to all library collections including eBooks.
Use the Book format filter, then select the eBook filter on the left of the Discovery result list to limit to only eBooks.
Be sure you have also limited to Trevecca library holdings.
Waggoner Library provides access to both DVDs and streaming videos. Find available titles through the Discovery Search on the library website. DVDs are shelved in the ELC, the ground floor level of the library.
Streaming videos through Films on Demand, are linked in Discovery and can also be searched directly through Films on Demand.
Waggoner has both online and print newspaper subscriptions.
Print newspapers: Located on the main floor rotunda area, the Newspaper Nook provides a relaxing place to sit and read current issues of the following newspapers - the Nashville Business Journal. Online access to some content is available in the library only. Please ask at the reference desk for help.
Online access for newspapers: The databases below provide current and full-text backfiles of local, national, and international news.
Below are links to some of the library's online newspaper collections.
Provides full-text access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information, including hundreds of U.S. and foreign newspapers, legal and business publications, wire services, broadcast media transcripts, and trade/news magazines. Covers 1980 - present
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers, and scholars with online, easily searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the time's politics, society, and events. Coverage: 1812 - 2009.
