Library News & Events
Coulter Library 20-21 Academic Year Updates

Updated as of December 10, 2020
Temporary Library & College Policies
- All employees, students, and visitors must maintain six-foot social distancing whenever possible.
- Masks must be worn on campus.
- Food and/or drinks are not allowed in the Library. There are designated campus locations for consuming food and drink.
- Headphones are required to be used when listening to video or audio on library computers or your personal electronic devices.
- Only one person is allowed in a study room at a time.
- Only one person is allowed to sit at each table in the library.
Library Hours
Coulter Library will be open during the 20-21 academic year. Fall & Spring semester hours are Mondays - Thursdays 8:30am - 8pm, Fridays 8:30am – 4:30pm, and Sundays 12 – 8pm (closed Saturdays). See our hours page for exceptions. The library staff are also available to help you remotely. Please email library@sunyocc.edu for assistance.
Library Resources
Coulter Library has electronic resources available through our web site: http://library.sunyocc.edu. If you have trouble accessing library resources please visit our Database Troubleshooting Guide or email us at library@sunyocc.edu.
Course Reserves
Course reserve items are available at the Library.
Reference Asssistance
Students, faculty or staff who need remote reference help can get in touch with us in the following ways:
- Call us at (315) 498-2334
- Email us at library@sunyocc.edu or fill out the Ask a Librarian form here: http://library.sunyocc.edu/?q=content/ask-librarian
- Schedule a reference appointment with a reference librarian. Email us at library@sunyocc.edu to schedule an appointment.
Interlibrary Loan
Interlibrary loan is available at this time, but the number of loaning libraries is limited. This includes digital item requests.
Physical Library Items
Physical library items are available. The book stacks are open. Books that are returned to the library will be quarantined for 4 days before they are returned to the shelves.
Return Box Locations
- Outside Coulter Hall entrance under the bridge between Coulter and Mawhinney (Silver Box)
- Outside Mawhinney Hall entrance by the traffic semi-circle (Blue Box)
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Resources for Faculty
Library Resources
Library resources for faculty teaching courses online include the following digital content:
- Coulter Library has electronic resources available through our web site: http://library.sunyocc.edu. Coulter Library licenses digital collections to offer a wide array of material types that could be incorporated into courses. These include articles, books, videos, image collections, newspapers, historical archives, music, and journals and magazines dating back to the 18th century.
- To browse databases visit our A-Z Databases page.
- Online video content can be accessed via Films on Demand and Academic Video Online.
- Open Educational Resources (OER), which are freely available text and course materials, are listed by broad general discipline areas here: https://sunyocc.libguides.com/OER_OCC. These can substitute for physical books.
Course Reserves
Course reserve items are available. Please contact us to explore possible options.
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Additional Updates and Resources from Onondaga Community College
For up-to-date information on Onondaga Community College's policies and procedures regarding reopening of the college, visit Onondaga Community College's We're back in person for you! page. Also, all college staff and students are encouraged to check their OCC email regularly for updates.
Unity Day: Upstander Virtual Display

Upstanders, Whistle-Blowers and Rescuers
by Marth Minow eBook
Simple Not Easy: Reflections on Community Social Responsibility and Tolerance
by Terrence Roberts eBook
Tolerance: the Glue that Binds Us: Empathy, Fairness and Reason
by Rivka Witerberg eBook
Empathy: Past, Present and Future Perspectives
by Albert Back (ed.) eBook
Encyclopedia of Diversity and Social Justice
eBook and available in hard copy at the library
Stand Up: How to Get Involved, Speak Out, and Win in a World on Fire
by Gordon Whitman eBook
In My Own Words
by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Just Mercy: a Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
RBG
DVD
Just Mercy
DVD
Winter Library Hours

December 19 - January 31
- Monday - Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm
- Weekends CLOSED
Exceptions
- December 25 - January 3: Closed
- January 18: Closed
Regular library hours will resume Monday, February 1, 2021.
Faculty Library Training for New Library System

This summer the library migrated to a new online system called Primo. The Library website may look the same, however the navigation and search results are different.
Please join us to learn to navigate our new system. We will look at accessing scholarly articles and books, interlibrary loan, searching techniques and more.
Coulter Library Classroom C340C
Aug. 30 – Fri. at 11:15
or
Sep. 5 – Thurs. at 3
Makerspace Fall Semester Hours

The Library Makerspace is open the following hours during the Fall 2020 semester. Please note that due to COVID restrictions, 3D printing will be by appointment only during our open hours. Only two students can be in the room at the same time. There will be an arts & crafts area and robotics station just outside the room (each will be limited to one student at a time).
September 14 – November 19
- Monday 12:15pm – 1:45pm
- Thursday 12:45pm – 2:15pm
OCC Student Maker Club Meetings

Spring semester club meetings are TBA. Please visit the Library's makerspace page for information about the club and/or makerspace.
Fall Semester Library Hours

August 31- December 18
Monday - Thursday: 8:30am - 8:00pm
Friday: 8:30am - 4:30pm
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: 12:00pm - 8:00pm
Exceptions
Monday, September 7: Closed
Wednesday, November 25 - Sunday, November 29: Closed
Turn your Lazer Card into a Library Card!

Borrow items from the library using your OCC Lazer card. You’ll need to register for a barcode, but it only takes a minute! Stop by the second floor Course Reserves counter or the first floor Checkout counter to register. We have books, textbooks, DVDs, and more available for checkout.
Kindness Rocks Garden

Would you like to paint a rock to add to our garden?
Coulter Library's rock painting station is available in the Library Makerspace in C141. It is located near the elevator on the first floor of the library.
The Visual Arts Resource Center (W251) also has rock painting supplies (Hours of operation are Monday-Wednesday 8am-10pm, Thursday 10am-10pm, Friday 10am-6pm and Saturday 9am-1pm).
Please include the hashtag #SUNYOCCrocks somewhere on your rock before adding to the garden or relocating elsewhere.
What can you do if you find a #SUNYOCCrocks rock?
Post a photo of the rock on Facebook, Twitter, or Snapchat with the hashtag #SUNYOCCrocks. Then either keep the rock, hide it somewhere, or return it to the Kindness Rocks Garden on the 1st floor of Coulter Library.
Pop-Up Maker Space

On Monday, October 23, 2017 our Pop-Up Maker Space event was held from 11am to 1pm on the 1st floor of Coulter, and participants were able to try knitting, rock painting, jewelry making, Arduinos, and more!
We invited the campus community to participate in this event by entering an item that was made for the first Coulter Library maker contest. The contest was open to the entire campus community. Entries were due by 2pm on October 20, 2017 and were displayed at the event on the 23rd. The winner received a $15.00 iTunes or Google Play gift card.
Direct questions to Lisa Hoff, l.m.hoff@sunyocc.edu, or Dennis Thoryk, thorykd@sunyocc.edu.