Interesting Facts About the Richland College Library

• The Library has more than 90,000 books.
  
• 160 subscription databases are provided by the DCCCD, Richland, and TexShare.
  
• Through TexShare we have access to
• 12,947 full-text journals
• 1,318 newspapers
  
• 4654 reference books
  
• 28,281 NetLibrary ebooks
  
• nearly 600,000 primary source documents.
  
• Average Number of Information Literacy Classes taught each year: 360.
  
• Average Number of Students attending Information Literacy Classes each year: over 5,000.
  
• Information Literacy Certificates awarded: 2,000 since program began in Spring 1998.
  
• The Library has received three national Awards over the last 10 years
  
• American Library Association/ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award 2004
  
• American Library Association Library of the Future Award 2001
  
• EBSCO Achievement Award for Outstanding Program Development 1999
  

Read more facts about the library at www.richlandcollege.edu/library/about.php.