Library collections
Killam Library collections are described numerically as follows:
Books (print)
Special Collection
Books in Spanish
eBooks
Electronic databases
Audiovisual media
Microforms
TITLES
192,443
2,293
12,033
VOLUMES
221,372
2,541
13,838
38,305
not applicable
195
not applicable
1,617
2,589
526,736
560,676
Current subscriptions
1,464
Government Documents
Federal
Texas
1,421
4,527
22,881
29,910
We are have available a support document that provides, for our print book collection, a
breakdown of Library of Congress Classification ranges that correspond to academic
departments (support document).
Government document materials are catalogued in a database separate from the general
library catalogue.
eBooks are organized into six collections. Five of them are shared resources collections.
One is owned by Texas A&M International University. We have permanent access to all
them (support document available).
Due to the bilingual nature of our student body and community we are reporting number
of titles in Spanish to emphasize that over 6 percent of our collection is directly
supporting Spanish Language and Literature, Latin American Studies and Hispanic
Studies programs.
On the most recent library survey, 80% of respondents indicated that they were satisfied
or very satisfied with the library's book collection, 76% indicated that they were satisfied
or very satisfied with the library's periodicals collection, and 85% indicated that they
were satisfied or very satisfied with the library's electronic database collection (support
document available).
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Databases available to our patrons cover all disciplines taught at Texas A&M
International University. Some of the individual databases available are embedded by
vendors and aggregators into larger databases. The majority provide access to the full
text and image of relevant articles. Others are indexes and abstracts. This is a very
dynamic set of information, and is constantly changing. The databases can be consulted
from an authenticated computer at: http://library.tamiu.edu/dbases/index.htm (support
document available).
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