Library
James E. Tobin Library
Located on the second floor of Kellenberg Hall, the James E. Tobin (JET) Library is the center of academic research on the Molloy University campus. Beyond the library's physical collection of books, media, and journals, the library provides 24/7 access to nearly one million eBooks as well as full-text to millions of articles and streaming media contained in hundreds of subscription databases. The library also maintains a Digital Commons as its institutional repository, which contains thousands of open-access works and artifacts from faculty and students, as well as the university’s archives, which chronicle Molloy’s history from its Dominican roots in the early 1930s to the present day.
The JET Library is open 84 hours per week. Reference librarians and virtual chat services are available during these hours to provide research assistance for anyone on or off campus. There is also a Learning Commons on site that allows students to work in a space where peer and professional tutors are standing by, ready to help.
Services
On the main campus, degreed librarians are always available to provide individualized assistance to students and faculty across three shifts and multiple service points. Patrons from any location are welcome to request group or individualized instruction sessions with a librarian via an online form. Virtual one-on-one sessions are also available for fully online or hybrid students.
Molloy’s ID card serves as the library borrowing card, and the same username and password used for email provides off-campus access to an extensive collection of electronic resources. The library also offers hundreds of published research guides that support undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral studies, specific disciplines, and even particularly unique assignments. There is a fully automated system for faculty to place materials on reserve, making them readily available to large numbers of students to use within a limited time period. To obtain materials that may be unavailable or not held in the collection, students and faculty can request books and articles through Molloy’s Interlibrary Loan system. Visit https://www.molloy.edu/library to obtain further details regarding these services and more.
Facilities
The first floor of the JET Library features areas for both quiet and group study, offering tables for groups to convene or use with laptops, as well as single carrels located in the Main Reference room. There are research computers, a Scannx station, and a self-checkout kiosk available in this area as well. Additionally, there are two library instruction labs within the JET Library and one open lab located on the mezzanine level. The third floor of the library is almost completely designated as a quiet study space.
The Learning Commons, located on the first floor of the library, provides an environment that enables students to work on their studies and receive peer and/or professional writing and subject tutoring in multiple subject areas. Immediately adjacent to the Learning Commons is the Education Resource Center, which includes group-study tables and houses a diverse collection of resources in varying formats designed to aid prospective teachers and faculty in lesson planning and curricular development.
Additional Service Points
In the Barbara H. Hagan Center for Nursing, an embedded Health Sciences Librarian is on site six hours per week. There is also a reference librarian available Monday through Friday at Molloy’s Suffolk campus, located in Amityville, NY, during normal semester hours.