Hibbing Community College Library

The Library is the college’s center for research and audio visual/media support services. The Library contains approximately 40,000 units of print and non-print material and subscriptions to over 300 periodicals, including local and national newspapers. 

Library resources are accessible via Classic MnPALS or MnPALS Plus, an integrated library catalog, and MnLINK, a gateway system to library collections throughout Minnesota, and WorldCAT, a world-wide database of library resources. Continued participation with MnPALS, as the primary library catalog, interlibrary loan and circulation system, and MnLINK, provides library users access to numerous Minnesota academic, public, school libraries and state agency centers and subscription databases. 

Subscription services to MnPALS and other databases, such as: Access Science,  CINAHL, EBSCO Host, ELM Resources,  GreenR, InfoTrac,  Literature Online, Opposing Viewpoints, Poem Finder,  ProQuest NewsStand,  SIRS Knowledge Source,  provide library users access to unlimited resources.

MnLINK also provides licensed and public domain reference databases to help locate articles found in serials, journals, magazines an newspapers through ELM.

Interlibrary Loan is accomplished through MnPALS, MnLINK and MINITEX.  Through participation in MINITEX, access to and delivery of requested items, from MnPALS and MnLINK libraries and the University of Minnesota, is provided free to library users.

The library has a good environment for study, research and reference work.  Additional resources are provided for upper-division and graduate level students enrolled in programs offered through the Arrowhead University Consortium (AUC). 

The library has carrels and tables equipped for AV use, a conference room for group and video viewing, a photocopier, campus networked PC computers, color and b/w Laser printers and wireless computer capability.

Fall and Spring Semester hours:

            8:00 am - 8:00 pm Monday-Thursday
            8:00 am - 4:00 pm Friday
            Closed Saturday and Sunday
            Hours subject to change.

Summer Library hours:

            8:30 am - 4:30 pm Monday-Friday
            Closed Saturday and Sunday

The Library closes for official holidays and any other activity in which the entire student body is scheduled to attend.

Additional Library Catalog Systems:

• MnLINK
• Arrowhead Library System
• net Library
• WorldCat

Library Staff

Jan Carey - HCC Librarian/Media Specialist 262-6747
Oversees the LRC, audio visual and media services of HCC. Questions and concerns regarding services, policies and procedures relating to either library, audio visual or media services should be directed to the Librarian.  Send e-mail to jancarey@hibbing.edu

Phyliss Flannery - Librarian Technical Assistant 262-6746
Serves as clerical assistant to the Librarian and assists in providing library services at the paraprofessional level. Send e-mail to phylissflannery@hibbing.edu

Kim Johnson - OCLC/Library Technician 749-7740
Serves as the technician, coordinator, and liaison for OCLC cataloging database by processing all library acquisitions for the community college libraries within the Northeast Service Unit.