Library

Welcome to the Johnnie Mae Berry Library Center

 The Johnnie Mae Berry Library, an essential service of Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, provides students and faculty with easy, rapid access to information resources via up-to-date access tools and delivery systems.

All Library services support the College’s mission of providing student-focused, accessible, quality technical and general education, academic transfer, experiential and cooperative education, and workforce development.

The focus of the Library is on student learning and enrichment. The Library:

• teaches students how to find, evaluate and use information;
• offers opportunities for students and faculty to learn more about how information is organized;
• enables the development of critical research skills;
• provides students and faculty with personalized reference services.

The Library helps instill students with the research skills essential for lifelong learning.

Who can use the Library?

Guests are welcome to access many library resources from this page. For example, you will find links to BLINK: the Library's Online Catalog and to many other resources. 

The Library itself and many of its resources, including electronic resources, are available only to students, faculty, and staff with the use of a SurgeCard, the Cincinnati State identification card. SurgeCards are available from Student Activities — ATLC 204. Holders of a SurgeCard are also able to borrow books from college and university libraries that are part of the OhioLINK system.

The Johnnie Mae Berry Library is a member of OhioLINK and the SWON Libraries.  Holders of proper identification from other OhioLINK and SWON Libraries are able to borrow books from the Johnnie Mae Berry Library.

The electronic resources available through the Johnnie Mae Berry Library and OhioLINK are licensed resources available for use on campus, and in most cases, available to students, faculty, and staff using the Library via the internet from off-campus.