The WCC Library serves the research needs of WCC students, faculty, and staff, and has services for community members. It offers information literacy classes, research computers, reference help, and a collection of over 30,000 books, DVDs, and CDs. Also serves people online with a variety of electronic resources.

Library Services offered at Whatcom Community College

The WCC Library serves the research needs of WCC students, faculty, staff, and has services for community members.

Facilities, often located in academic libraries, school districts or other environments, that maintain collections of print and media materials, art supplies and other resources that are used for instructional purposes which teachers, scout leaders, child care providers and others can review and check out for use in their own classrooms. Also included are programs that circulate instructional modules on specific issues that can be incorporated in an educational curriculum.

Instructional Materials Centers

Libraries that maintain reference desks in adult and/or children's sections or telephone reference services to help users to find the information or leisure reading material they need. Reference librarians provide assistance in locating information on a wide variety of topics such as business, current events, statistics and research findings, and civil service exams. Also included are readers advisory services.

Reference/Information

Libraries that are units of or affiliated with public or private postsecondary educational institutions such as polytechnics, colleges and universities, which are organized and administered to meet the teaching, research and professional information needs of students, faculty and affiliated staff of the institution.

Academic Libraries

Libraries or other organizations that provide online resources and/or search services for people who want to access a  wide range of digital information, materials, and services. A physical location such as a library may offer access to digitized content locally at a facility or remotely from any location online. Digital materials may include e-books, multimedia, digitized versions of articles and information from print sources such as magazines, newspapers, journals and reference books as well as music and other content.  Examples of digital service platforms and vendors include OCLC's (Online Computer Library Center) FirstSearch collection of databases, the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE, the U.S. Department of Education's ERIC, LexisNexis, ProQuest, Ebsco and Gale/Cengage.

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Library Services offered at Whatcom Community College