Guests & Visitors

Anyone who lives in close proximity to Conception Abbey may apply to be a Community Patron. Guests & Visitors are individuals who stay with at the Abbey a short time.

There are two ways to start your search for items in our library.

Library Home Page for a quick search

Library Catalog for a detailed search

Finding an item in our library.

First, make sure the item has the status, Available, in the catalog.

• Books are located on all three floors.
• CDs, DVDs, and Videos are located on the third floor.
• Sound Cassettes are on the second floor.
• The Media Collection is located in the hallway of the library offices.

Guests and visitors are welcome to use library items but may not check out or remove them from the library. Please see the section on library signs below to see how to keep a library item you are using from being re-shelved.

Guests staying more than a week may be given borrowing privileges by permission of the Librarian. The library will need a copy of a photo ID and your current address and contact information. Contact the Library Director for more information.

Christopher Brite
Library Director
(660) 944-2863
cbrite@conception.edu

Check out period lasts for the duration of your stay. Please return all items to the library before you leave campus.

Checking out an item from our library

For Books:

• Remove the card from the pocket in the front of the book.
• Sign the card with your name or library unique ID number.
• Place the card in the checkout box located on the library front desk or the box located on the landing between the second and third floors of the library stacks.

For CDs, DVDs, Videos, Sound Cassette, or the Media Collection:

• Sign your name and list the item call number on the clipboard located near each collection.

Place your returns on the shelves in the hallway of the library offices. The return shelves are to the right as you enter the hallway from the reading room. If the office is closed, you may put the item on the circulation desk in the reading room.

The library maintains two displays: New Additions Display and a Theme Display. Items on the New Additions Display are changed weekly. Theme Display items are changed every two weeks.

Display items may not be checked out immediately, but may be reserved. To reserve a display item, sign your name on the circulation card for books or sign the checkout sheet for Audio Visual items, but leave the item on the display. When the displays are rotated, the library will notify you that you can come and pick up your item.

Wireless Internet access is only available to patrons with a Conception Abbey computing account.

Click here for more information about Computers, Photocopier and Internet Access.

The library provides a number of study and reading spaces throughout our three floors.

We ask that you be considerate of others when using these spaces.

The library provides signs for items that you wish to set aside when you are temporarily away from your study space. Please consolidate your items into a small, orderly pile so others can use the study space when you are not using it. The library is not responsible for missing items.

The library provides signs for items that you wish to set aside when you are temporarily away from your study space. Please consolidate your items into a small, orderly pile so others can use the study space when you are not using it. The library is not responsible for missing items.

The library subscribes to a number of databases. They offer a variety of information through indexes, full-text articles, dictionary and encyclopedia entries and images.

Click here to find out more about each database.

The Librarians are here to help you find the information you need.

Contact us or drop by the library during office hours.