Welcome to the Watne Memorial Library web page! Our main objective is to provide Crown College students, faculty and staff with a "search engine"; specifically tailored for the Crown College curriculum.
Among the many resources currently available in the Watne Memorial Library are:
- Over 100,000 cataloged volumes plus approximately 70,000 microform books containing virtually everything published in the United States from 1639-1820.
- Over 30,000 current electronic books not included in the totals above, as well as 5,000 full-text electronic dissertations, theses, and conference papers.
- A dozen outstanding EBSCO databases containing literally millions of full-text articles from over 23,000 magazines and journals, covering virtually every topic imaginable.
- The world’s largest, most comprehensive online catalog (World Cat) listing over 88 million bibliographic records in 470 languages from 57,000 libraries around the world.
- Many other excellent databases including Infotrac, Country Watch, e-HRAF, Proquest Newspapers, and more.
- Video/listening rooms, quiet study rooms, DVD cameras, VCR/DVD/CD players, both PC and Mac computers, and hundreds of videos, DVDs and CDs.
- A membership with RFB&D (Recording for the Blind and Disabled) which has almost a half-million recorded books for students with learning disabilities or visual impairment (available through the Crown study lab).
