Kresge Memorial Library

Kresge Memorial Library exists to facilitate and promote learning through its physical facilities, dynamic and evolving collections, robust technology, and services performed by professional and skilled support staff.

Construction of the Kresge Memorial Library was completed in 1972 with extensive renovations concluded in summer 2008. Stanley Kresge, a supporter of the College, was a leading contributor to the building and it was named in honor of his mother.

The Anna E. Kresge Memorial Library performs an essential role in the educational process and institutional purpose of the College by affording facilities that enhance learning for students and faculty; by providing a curated collection of resources that support the academic program; and by offering research and instructional services to promote their effective use within a biblical frame of reference in the Reformed tradition.

The Kresge Memorial Library offers seating for approximately 175 individuals on two floors. The first floor contains reading tables, individual study carrels, soft seating, and a lounge area. The second floor provides a quiet study area housing carrels and semi-private group study rooms. Also housed on the second floor are a testing room, the campus Art Gallery, the Writing Center, the Center for Student Success, the College Archives, and a multi-purpose room which accommodates library instruction, receptions, and other special events. The Library supplies wired network connectivity through public computers appropriately equipped for research and writing, as well as wireless access to the campus network

Collections include print and electronic books; print and electronic subscriptions to journals, magazines and newspapers; electronic and print back files of periodicals; streaming audio and video databases; films on DVD and Blu-Ray; and over 200 general and subject-specific research databases.

By using a web-scale, cloud-based, integrated, single-search box online catalog, WorldShare Discovery Services, library users may explore, identify, and access print and electronic resources held in the Kresge Library as well as those located in thousands of other libraries worldwide. Students may connect to the Library鈥檚 electronic resources from off-campus locations with appropriate campus network authentication. Through its membership in OCLC, the world鈥檚 largest provider of bibliographic services, the Library networks with thousands of other institutions worldwide to provide interlibrary loan and document delivery services.

The Library鈥檚 web site, library.covenant.edu, provides more detailed information on collections, discipline-specific resource guides, policies, and other services.