• Audiovisuals


• Curriculum Lab


• Electronic Books


• Electronic Media


• Fiction


• General Collection


• Government Documents


• Maps


• New Books


• North Carolina Collection


• Pamphlets


• Periodicals


• Professional Development


• Record, CD or Musical Score


• Reference


• State Documents
  

Audiovisual materials such as films, filmstrips, audiotapes, videotapes, CDs, and DVDs are listed in the online catalog along with our books. The location code for these items is Audiovisual. All audiovisual materials are shelved on the first floor next to the periodical collection.

Located on the second floor, the Curriculum Lab houses materials of interest to those in elementary and secondary education. Here are found materials appropriate for teachers of elementary and secondary school age students, literature anthologies, information on audiovisual materials for educators, juvenile books and picture books, curriculum guides, elementary and secondary school textbooks, instructional packages for a wide variety of subjects, and books on teaching methods for different disciplines.

The majority of the electronic book collection is available through a database called Netlibrary. Netlibrary provides a collection of over 25,200 new and recent titles that are of interest to academic and public library patrons. These titles can be viewed for up to four hours at a time. To check out a Netlibrary book you must first create a free account at their website. After you have created your account, you can access Netlibrary books from any computer connected to the Internet, including from your home computer. See our Finding Books page for specific instructions on setting up an account with NetLibrary.

In addition to Netlibrary electronic books, we have acquired additional electronic books from other vendors such as Oxford University Press, Gale, and others. These e-books may be accessed freely from on-campus computers and from off campus by using your Barton login information.

Electronic Media

The Electronic Media Collection contains streaming videos from PBS, accessed via NCLIVE. The NCLIVE Video Collection is a collection of more than 370 high quality documentary and educational video programs produced for the Public Broadcasting Corporation (PBS). Chosen by North Carolina librarians for use in supporting education and for general interest, the collection includes includes programming covering the sciences, US and world history, biography, current events, and the arts, as well as a variety of other subjects. In addition, several educational series for children are included. The video collection comprises programming in the sciences, history, biography, the arts, and a variety of other subjects. This includes Ken Burns’ "Baseball," "The Civil War," and "Jazz" as well as the selected episodes from series such as "American Experience," "Frontline," "Scientific American Frontiers," and for kids, "Cyberspace" and "Liberty's Kids," among others.

The videos are viewable from any computer running Flash Player version 9 or higher with a relatively good Internet connection (at least 175 Kbps; however, it is not possible to view the videos over a dial-up Internet line). The videos NCLIVE is offering have been created to stream in two formats – a lower bandwidth option (175 Kbps) and a higher bandwidth option (400 Kbps). Additional options may be created in the future based on demand. No other hardware or software should be necessary to view the NCLIVE Video Collection.

Fiction

Books that are works of fiction (literature) are located in the Fiction collection near the stairs on the second floor. These may be checked out at the circulation desk.

(There is also a revolving "collection" of paperback popular fiction [mysteries, romances, thrillers, etc.] found in the Paperback Exchange located on the first floor. Books in the Paperback Exchange are not owned by the library; therefore, patrons may freely borrow from and donate to the Exchange at will without checking them out.)

General Collection

This is our largest collection and represents the bulk of our circulating collection (items that can be checked out). It is located on the second floor.

U.S. Government documents are materials produced by an agency of the federal government such as the Department of Agriculture or the Defense Department. They take many forms. Pamphlets, posters, single sheets of paper, multi-volume hardback books (such as the Iran-Contra hearings or the U.S. Supreme Court Reports), microfiche, compact disks, journals and maps are some of the varied ways government documents are distributed. (Many are also available now on the internet.)

Since 1930, Hackney Library has been a U.S. Depository Library. This status greatly strengthens the library's holdings and means that we have the opportunity of selecting whichever government documents we wish to receive in paper format on a continuing basis. The library selects those paper documents that appear to be the most useful to our students, faculty and community users.

While government documents in paper format were formerly housed in a separate Government Documents collection, they are now incorporated into Hackney Library's general and reference collections.

The library has a limited map collection, most of which comes from the federal government. Maps are filed in the map case near the Reference Collection of the library or in the adjoining filing cabinet. Finding aids are available. One of the most useful map collections is the country map series, consisting of country and regional maps size 8 1/2 in. x 11 in. or larger. The library also has highway, recreational, topographic and National Geographic maps.

The New Books collection contains selected titles from the New York Times' Hardcover Best Seller Lists for both fiction and nonfiction. The fiction titles in this collection are shelved adjacent to the North Carolina collection on the first floor of the library near the stairs. The nonfiction titles are shelved nearby, next to the display case adjacent to the front door.

The North Carolina collection was created and endowed by the Friends of Hackney Library. It contains books, both fiction and non-fiction, that are by North Carolina authors. Many of the authors represented in the collection have also been speakers at Friends of Hackney Library functions.

Hackney Library has a collection of pamphlets and newspaper clippings on a wide variety of subjects. These are housed in filing cabinets along the back wall of the library on the first floor. There are several separate collections of pamphlets: the North Carolina Pamphlets collection is devoted to North Carolina topics and the Global Pamphlets collection contains information on countries and continents around the world. The largest collection is the General Pamphlets collection, in which materials on all different kinds of subjects are housed. Many of the pamphlets are included in the online catalog, and there are lists on top of the filing cabinets identifying the topics covered. We are no longer adding to this collection, as internet web sites have begun to supplant these resources.

Periodicals

This represents our physical collection of journals, magazines, and newspapers in both paper and microfiche/film format, whose use is limited to the library (except for faculty/staff, who may check them out with the assistance of a librarian). The bulk of this collection is located on the first floor; however, periodicals in microfiche and microfilm format are located in the northeast corner of the library on the second floor. Machines to view, print, and scan articles from these microform periodicals are located adjacent to the cabinets containing them on the second floor.

(The library also has a large number of periodicals available electronically, but they are not in a "collection" as such and are therefore not represented in the Periodicals Collection mentioned here.)

Professional Development

The Professional Development Collection was created to provide resources aiding professional growth and development, including resources on engaged learning, for the use of Barton College faculty and staff. These materials are located on an index table adjacent to the reference desk on the first floor of the library. Only faculty or staff may check these items out.

Although they are cataloged in its online catalog, Hackney Library does not house music records, music CDs or musical scores. Instead, these are located in the Music Record and Score Library in the Roma Hackney Music Building on Whitehead Avenue. These materials are for in-building use only.

Reference

This collection consists of numerous multivolume encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference volumes whose use is limited to the library (except for faculty/staff, who may check them out with the assistance of a librarian). This collection is located on the first floor near the reference/circulation desk.

In 1989, Hackney Library was designated a depository for North Carolina documents. These materials, published by the State of North Carolina, are distributed to us in microfiche form. They can be found near the reference collection on the first floor of the library. The online catalog clearly identifies these materials with "State Docs (Microfiche)" as the location code.