Oct 16, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Catalog

Library Services


Library Services, Resources, Instruction, and Facilities


The FSW Library, located on the Charlotte, Collier, and Lee Campuses and the Hendry/Glades Center, offer a wide array of services, resources, instruction, and facilities to support academic research. The libraries provide access to approximately 18,000 print volumes, and access to over 550,000 digital books, journals, and streaming videos. Students have access to 110 scholarly databases, providing millions of articles from peer-reviewed journals, newspapers, and magazines, as well as reference materials, streaming video, and eBooks. Using Interlibrary Loan Services students can access print books and journal articles not held by FSW Libraries. Students can borrow print books and articles from the libraries of Florida’s 28 public colleges and 12 public universities through the Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC).

The FSW Library locations provide student access to computers, wireless Internet, open study space, and multiple study rooms. FSW Faculty Librarians provide one-on-one research appointments as well as formal Research Instruction Workshops to groups of students in a lab or classroom. For more information about library services, resources, instruction, and facilities, visit the FSW Libraries’ homepage at www.fsw.edu/library/.

FSW Library is now home to College Tutoring. Tutorial services for math, writing, and sciences is available inside the libraries at Lee, Charlotte, and Collier campuses. To learn more about College Tutoring visit https://www.fsw.edu/academicsupport.

Currently enrolled students can access eBooks and databases using the same login and password required for Canvas. In order to borrow a print book from any of the campus libraries, the student must present a current FSW Buc ID Card.