Library Newsletter
Stay current on Oesterle news with our monthly faculty and staff newsletter, The Shelf. The newsletter is emailed on the fourth Monday of each month and past editions of the newsletter can be accessed on Box.
Upcoming Events
Oesterle Library hosts a variety of events for students, faculty, and staff. We encourage faculty and staff to join us for book clubs, arts and crafts workshops, and more!
For questions about collaborating with the Library, faculty and staff can contact the Outreach & Engagement Librarian, Rebecca Strang (rdstrang@noctrl.edu).
Oesterle's Mission
Oesterle Library is a student-centered resource center focused on creating a diverse and responsive environment of access, creativity, and learning. We cultivate an ethically engaged and information savvy community by supporting open access to spaces and information, fostering the creative inquiry process, advancing teaching excellence, and cultivating diverse and responsive collections through intentional collaboration with the North Central College campus and surrounding communities.
How Can We Help?
Research Support
- Interlibrary Loan is a free service provided to North Central College students, faculty, and staff that allows you to borrow articles, books, and other resources not available at Oesterle Library or in other I-Share Libraries.
- Liaison Librarians are Oesterle librarians designated to support the teaching, learning, and research needs of a specific school, department, program, or academic community at North Central College.
Collections
- Collections and Borrowing Policies
- Streaming Video - Kanopy is a specialized streaming video service specifically designed to work with public and higher education libraries. The company partners with filmmakers and movie studios around the globe to give movie-lovers free access to films that stimulate imagination, promote learning and spark meaningful conversations. Many films on Kanopy—including from iconic suppliers like the BBC, NEON, Samuel Goldwyn Films, HISTORY, A&E, First Run Features Kino Lorber and IFC Films—are unavailable elsewhere.
Curriculum Support
- Course Reserves
- For Your Syllabus
- Linking to Library Resources
- Instructional Support Resources (CAFÉ)
Information Literacy Instruction
- Oesterle Librarians can provide course-integrated Information Literacy Instruction tailored to your students, your course, and your assignment.
Student Support
- Cardinal Textbooks is a library-sponsored textbook affordability program that provides NCC students with access to high-use and high-cost textbooks. By making a selection of textbooks and course materials available in the library, this program will help reduce financial barriers for students, and support student success and retention. Faculty must complete the form on the Cardinal Textbooks page to request an addition to the collection.
- Teams and Student Organizations
