Automated Library Services
Automated Library Services, as a part of Lone Star College System, supports the functions of teaching, research, and public service. Automated Library Services embraces the mission of the Libraries, which is to provide services and learning opportunities to students, faculty, staff, and the general community which include Acquisitions (purchasing and receiving orders of print and nonprint materials); Serials (processing of all journals, magazines, and newspapers); Interlibrary Loans (borrowing and lending of books, articles, and other materials unavailable within the District's libraries); Library Technology (searchable catalogs, databases, journals and books, in electronic format, available at each site and via the Web); Cataloging (organization and bibliographic description of print and nonprint materials). Further, the mission of the Automated Library Services Department includes the promotion of life-long learning through exemplary service and instruction, library resources, and updated information technology that support learning and meet the needs of the District employees and our diverse community of users. Although the department's mission is focused on the libraries, it does offer District employees direct access to all District Library resources including circulation, reference, and interlibrary loan services.
To search the District's library resources, please visit http://library.lonestar.edu.
Lone Star College System libraries maintain a consortium arrangement with the Montgomery County Public Library System and the Harris County Public Libraries, sharing an electronic database of library holdings in the Horizon system. The consortium allows for intralibrary loan of materials, maximizing the collection of all entities while still allowing each to focus on its own patron needs.