Library Collections

Archives (2nd floor)
The college archives are located in the library.  In addition to administrative material, there are many interesting items from the college's 100 year history. 

Art Collection (2nd floor)
Over 5000 books dealing with drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, art history, and more comprise this collection.

Audio-Visual Collection (1st floor)
This consists of approximately 575 CDs, 1715 videos, 926 DVDs, 175 audio cassettes and 1780 record albums.

College and Career Planning
This is a collection of about 200 books focused on helping students during and after their undergraduate degree.  Topics include: writing, and study skills; applying to graduate school; careers; resumes; financial assistance.

Curriculum Materials Center (2nd floor)
The collection includes materials approved by the South Carolina Dept. of Education, and consists of a few thousand textbooks, software items, CDs, audio cassettes, video cassettes, DVDs, and kits.

Electronic Resources (24/7 online)
These consist of about almost 70 research databases with full-text access to approximately 24,000 journals, newspapers and magazines; 57,000 eBooks; 650 online reference books, and 80 CD-ROMS.

Juvenile Collection (2nd floor)
Approximately 7000 juvenile books support the Children's Literature course and various education courses.

Kalmia Gardens (Kalmia)
A collection of about 700 books are housed in 3 buildings on the gardens property.

Local and College History
Books relating to the history of the college, the Coker family, Sonoco, and Hartsville are located on the 1st floor. Books written by members of the Coker family are shelved in their related areas in the circulating collection on the 2nd floor.

Main Collection (2nd floor)
This circulating collection consists approximately of 60,000 print books.

Microforms (1st floor)
Thousands of periodicals are available in either microfilm or microfiche format.

Oversize (2nd floor)
Books that are either too tall or deep for the regular shelves are shelved separately. Approximately 430 of them are located in the area with the Art Collection.

Print Periodicals (1st floor)
The library subscribes to 155 print periodicals and 17 newspapers.

Recreational Reading (1st floor)
There are 140 works of fiction in our pleasure reading section.

Reference (1st floor)
Approximately 3700 reference volumes are in the collection.

Scores (1st floor)
About 1500 full size and 540 mini scores are available.

Library Staff

Alexa Bartel, Director, 383-8126  
Alexa worked as a Reference Librarian at Coker from 2002-04, and then returned to the library as Director in August 2007. She spent the interim three years as Head Librarian at Central Carolina Technical College. Alexa oversees all aspects of library operations, and provides library instruction and reference assistance. BS (Education), Indiana University, 1972; MLS (Library Science) Indiana University, 1992

Janet DeBernard, Circulation Assistant, 383-8125
Janet has worked at the library since 1981. She is currently working part-time at the Circulation Desk and assists patrons in locating and using various library resources.  BA (Business), Radford University, 1978

Melinda Deyasi, Assistant Director, 383-8191
Melinda joined the library in May 2002. Her responsibilities include managing electronic resources and the library's web site, teaching library instruction classes and providing reference services. BA (Western Lit. and Civ./Art History), Univ. of Western Ontario, 1997; MA (Art History), Univ. of Western Ontario, 1999; MSLS (Library Science), Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001

Susan King, Evening Library Assistant, 383-8125
Susan joined the library in November 2007.   She assists patrons with their basic circulation and basic computer needs on weekends and during the evenings.  During the day, she works as a "Jill of all trades" (with a focus on customer service) at McBee Mfg. Co. in McBee.  BA (Political Science), Francis Marion University, 1991

Nancy Matthews, Acquisitions and Cataloging Coordinator, 383-8128
Nancy has been with the library since 1984. Her responsibilities include all aspects of the ordering processing for new library material as well as overseeing cataloging.  She is also responsible for gifts received by the library, and for performing book repairs. BA (Education), Coker College, 1976

Donnie Quist, Circulation Coordinator, 383-8125 and 8127
Donnie started working at the library full-time in December 2007.  He was a work-study student while attending Coker.  He often works at the front desk and helps students in the computer area in the evenings.  Donnie's duties include running overdue notices, receiving and recording serials acquisitions, and other general library tasks.  BA (Communications), Coker College, 2006

Todd Rix, Electronic Resources and Instruction Librarian, 383-8270
Todd joined the library staff in July 2007.  His duties include bibliographic instruction, reference services, and electronic resource management.  A self-described "techno-geek," he also works on maintaining the library's new catalog. BA (Political Science/English), Clemson University, 1996; MLIS (Library Science), University of South Carolina, 2006

Brandy Roscoe, Library Assistant, 383-8125 and 8193
Brandy began working at the library just after graduating from Coker in the summer of 2008. In addition to staffing the desk much of the time, she assists the public services staff with their duties. Brandy will begin working on her Master's in Library Science in the fall of 2009. BS (Psychology), Coker College, 2008

Margaret Theismann, Day Library Assistant, 383-8194
Margaret joined the library staff in October 2006. Margaret's primary responsibility is to assist Nancy Matthews with cataloging.  She also helps at  the public services desk by assisting students and faculty with circulation, copying, scanning, and computer needs. She brings with her seven years of library experience as a previous employee of the Hartsville Memorial Library.

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Map of First Floor
Map of Second Floor