For Staff
Newspapers and Magazines
Barber Library offers free online access to popular magazines and newspapers.
New York Times & Wall Street Journal
All COCC Staff can subscribe to the New York Times and Wall Street Journal for free. Subscriptions last for one year and can be renewed for as long as the staff member works for COCC.
Flipster
EBSCOhost's Flipster offers the latest issues of these magazines:
- The Atlantic
- Discover
- The New Yorker
- Runner's World
- Science News
Popular Reads, Graphic Novels, Games and Puzzles
The Browsing collection on the first floor west reading room of the Barber Library contains both recent bestsellers and literary classics. Not on the Bend campus? Request a book through our online catalog, and we'll deliver it to you.
In this area, you'll also find graphic novels, games and puzzles to check out.
Books
Use the Barber Library & Summit Catalog to search the physical collections of COCC and 39 other academic libraries in the Pacific Northwest. You can request an item for delivery to any COCC campus, and it will arrive in 2-3 days.
Need a book or article that isn't in the catalog? Our Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service can get you nearly any title from another library in the U.S.
Technology
Borrowing
COCC staff can borrow any of Barber Library's circulating technologies for personal use.
- Laptops
- Hotspots
- Cameras (including two Canon DSLRs)
- Accessores like microphones, chargers, and flash drives
Scanning
The KIC BookEdge scanner by the Reference Desk can perform high-resolution scans of documents up to 11"x17" and save them as...
- Searchable PDFs
- Rich Text Files (RTF)
- Audio Files (MP3)
- JPEGs and PNGs
See Scanning at the Library to learn more.