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Library cards
The DVC photo identification card, Connect Card, serves as the library card for students, faculty and staff. To obtain a Connect Card, show proof of registration for the current semester plus an official photo identifications such as a California's driver's license. Separate barcoded library cards are issued to community residents who show proper identification and pay an annual fee.
Use the Library from Home
Most of the library's electronic resources are available from off-campus to current Diablo Valley College students, faculty and staff. Student or staff/faculty ID is required for remote access. Students, faculty, and staff will find their ID on their Connect Card. Faculty and staff who do not have a Connect Card will find their ID on their pay stubs.
- ALICE library catalog Available to all.
- No ID needed for basic searching.
- Find Articles (journal articles & full-text databases)
- Restricted to current DVC students, faculty, and staff.
- eBooks (books available online)
- Restricted to current DVC students, faculty, and staff.
The collection
The DVC Library has a collection of approximately 90,000 books, 2500 ebooks, 400 periodical subscriptions, and 20 electronic databases that index and provide full-text articles from over 5000 journal titles. The Library at the San Ramon Center has a small collection of reference, reserve and circulating materials as well as full access to the databases and ebooks. San Ramon library patrons may also request books to be sent from the DVC Library.
DVC's Online Catalog, ALICE
ALICE (Access to Library Information for College Education) is the Library's online catalog. ALICE includes information on the more than 90,000 books in the DVC Library and the films, videotapes and audiotapes in the Media Center. It also includes information on books at our SRC campus as well as our sister colleges, Los Medanos and Contra Costa College.
Magazines and Newspapers
The Library has subscriptions to approximately 400 magazines and 18 newspapers. Staff at the Periodicals Desk provide assistance in locating magazine and newspaper issues and in use of the microform reader-printers. ALICE includes records for all the periodicals in the Library. Print and online indexes, located in the Reference Area, help you find magazine and newspaper articles on particular subjects.
Reserve
When books and other materials have been selected by faculty for required reading, copies are collected and placed "on reserve" at the Circulation and Reserve Desk. Materials on Reserve are listed in the online catalog, ALICE. The books are checked out for a limited time period determined by the instructor.
Special Collections/Archives
These collections include such items as yearbooks, college publications, catalogues, class schedules, handbooks, issues of the Forum, staff newsletters, accreditation reports, sabbatical reports, surveys, annual reports, minutes, photographs, slides, oral histories, and recorded tapes of guest speakers.
Special archive collections include:
- DVC History, 1949 - 1970
- Three Presidents - Medsker, Drexel, and Peterson
- McCunn Collection, 1949 - 1963
- Niland Collection, 1965 - 1984
Call the Reference Desk (x2246) to make an appointment to use the Archives resources.
Other Materials Available:
College Catalogs
Available from the online database College Source. Find it in the database subject list under education.Maps
Ask for road and street maps at the Reference & Research Desk. Topographic maps of California and oceanographic maps are stored in a large map case near the Periodicals Desk.Pamphlets
Pamphlets are located in a file cabinet in the Reference Area near the Atlas Case. A subject index of the pamphlet file is on top of the cabinet.Telephone Directories
Local telephone directories are shelved near the Reference & Research Desk.
Friends of the Library
The Friends of the Diablo Valley College Library is an association formed to promote the development of the Diablo Valley College Library as a center for learning, study and research for the students and faculty of Diablo Valley College, and as a cultural resource for members of the community in general.
The Friends cordially invite you to join other Friends, book lovers, alumni, faculty, researchers, professionals, and businesses to enhance and preserve Diablo Valley College Library's important resources and services. By joining the Friends of the Diablo Valley College Library, you will have borrowing privileges at the Library and have the opportunity to provide support to the important work of the Library, particularly through enhancing the collections and services it provides to students at the College and within the community.
