About the Libraries

Library Mission:

The MATC Library organizes and manages free access for students and staff to the recorded knowledge of human civilization in a variety of formats to support the teaching and learning processes of the college.

General Library Information

MATC’s six libraries, the main library at Truax and five information resource centers at the Downtown, Watertown, Fort Atkinson, Portage and Reedsburg campuses, provide services and collections tailored to MATC students’ academic library needs.

MATC libraries offer more than 450 magazines, 65,000 books and videotapes, Internet access, and a growing number of computerized full-text databases to help students efficiently locate needed information. Online catalogs and delivery service connect all centers to provide students with fast access to titles in all collections. Access to these online resources is also available from home and the office.

In addition, students have access to the online catalogs of UW-Madison libraries, Madison Public libraries and many other state libraries, and can borrow materials from these libraries through interlibrary loans. To help our students use these resources, all locations provide individual assistance and class orientations to collections, services, and the research process.

The MATC libraries also provide special reserve collections of materials assigned by instructors. In addition, Truax features a small collection of books and videos for recreational purposes.

The Truax library provides ample room for studying, and houses the campus computer lab, the student computer help desk, a drop-in tutoring service (the Learning Center), the Writing Center and several photocopiers and scanners.

Truax Library Contact Information

• (608) 246-6640 [Circulation Desk]
• (608) 243-4264 [Reference Desk]

Hours

Truax >> Downtown >> Ft. Atkinson >> Portage >> Reedsburg >> Watertown

Holidays >> Winter Break >> Spring Break

Truax

Location: 3550 Anderson Street, Room 230; Madison WI 53704; (608) 246-6640
Library Director: Julie Gores; Associate Director: Cecily Lehman

Hours - Fall and Spring Semesters:
Monday - Thursday: 7:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Friday: 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Saturday: 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Hours - Interim Session/ Winter Break and Spring Break
Monday - Friday 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Summer Session
Monday - Thursday: 7:30 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Friday: 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

The Library will be open Saturday June 7th and August 2nd 9:00am -1:00pm.

Downtown

Location: 211 North Carroll Street; Madison WI 53703; (608) 258-2499
Library Staff: Deb Diller, Virginia Bryan

Hours - Fall and Spring Semesters:
Monday - Thursday: 7:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Friday: 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Saturday: 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Hours - Interim Session/ Winter Break and Spring Break
Monday - Friday 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Summer Session
Monday - Thursday: 7:30 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Friday: 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Fort Atkinson 

Location: 827 Banker Road.; Fort Atkinson WI 53538; (920) 568-7241
Library Staff: Renee Anhalt

Hours - Fall and Spring Semesters:
Monday - Thursday: 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Friday: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Saturday: 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Library staff available:
Mondays: 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Tuesdays: 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Thursdays: 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Hours - Winter Break, Spring Break and Summer Session:

The MATC-Fort Atkinson library will be closing May 19 for the summer.  Questions regarding Fort library materials and services please call 920-206-8009.

Please check with library staff for specific hours.

Portage 

Location: 330 Collins Street; Portage WI 53901; (608) 745-3111
Library Staff: Amy Bedessem

Hours - Fall and Spring Semester:
Monday - Thursday: 8:00 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Friday: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Saturday: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
(when classes are scheduled;
call (608) 745-3100 to verify Saturday hours)

Library staff available:
Monday: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Tuesday: 1:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Thursday: 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Friday: 1:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Hours - Winter Break, Spring Break and Summer Session:

Library staff available:
Monday & Wednesday: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Please check with library staff for specific hours.

Reedsburg 

Location: 300 Alexander Avenue; Reedsburg WI 53959; (608) 524-7794
Library Staff: Debbie Deakin

Hours - Fall and Spring Semester:
Monday - Thursday: 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Friday: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Library staff available:
Monday: 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Tuesday: 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Friday: 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Hours - Winter Break, Spring Break and Summer Session:

Please check with library staff for specific hours.

Watertown 

Location: 1300 West Main Street; Watertown WI 53098; (920) 261-3768
Library Staff: Renee Anhalt

Hours - Fall and Spring Semesters:
Monday - ThursdayWednesday: 9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Friday: 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Library staff available:
Monday: 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Thursday: 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Hours - Winter Break, Spring Break and Summer Session:

Monday - Wednesday 8:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Thursday 9:00am - 7:00pm

Library staff available:
Monday 7:30 a.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Tuesday: 7:45 a.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Thursday: 7:45 a.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Holiday Schedule [all campuses]:

• Closed Independence Day (Friday, July 4, 2008)
• Closed Labor Day Weekend (Saturday through Monday, September 1 - 3, 2007)
• Closed Fall Convocation (Wednesday, October 24, 2007)
• Closed Thanksgiving Weekend (Thursday through Sunday, November 22 - November 25, 2007)
• Closed Saturday, December 22, ,2007 -Tuesday, January 1, 2008
• Closed Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Monday, January 21, 2008)
• Closed Spring Convocation (Friday, March 14, 2008)
• Closed Memorial Day Weekend (Saturday through Monday, May 24 - 26, 2008)

Winter Break Schedule [all campuses]:

• January 2 - 13, 2008
• Closed Saturday, December 22, ,2007 -Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Spring Break Schedule [all campuses]:

• March 15 -23, 2008
• Closed, Friday through Sunday, April 6 - 8, 2007

Study Rooms

The library has a room designated for quiet study located to the right as you enter the library.

In addition, there are 3 group study rooms available which can be reserved for one hour at a time. You can check availability and reserve a study room at the Circulation Desk.

Media Services:

Instructional audio-visual materials, arranged by the dewey decimal system, are shelved at the beginning of the library stacks.

Quick Pick videos, a collection of classic, popular, and travel movies, are located in the browsing area.

• Quick Pick audio-visual material may be checked out by students for one week.
• There is a $1.00 per day overdue charge.
• Only two Quick Pick videos may be checked out at a time.

Equipment to view or listen to material is in the audio-visual carrels at the end of the 000-620 book shelves and also available in the three group study rooms.

Much of the audio-visual material must be used in the library by students, but those designated with a pink "student loan" sticker may be checked out by the students for one week.

Services Offered:
Acquisitions and Rentals of Instructional Materials

a. Preview and purchase instructional materials (i.e. videocassettes, cassette tapes, slides, videodiscs, multi-media educational materials, etc.)
b. Obtain instructional materials for classroom use on a rental or free loan basis.

Scheduling District-Owned Instructional Materials

a. Schedule materials to be used in the classroom.
b. Schedule materials to be used at other campuses.
c. Schedule closed reserves (items placed on reserve in the library, to be viewed only in the library).

Creating Bibliographies of District-Owned Instructional Materials Copyright Coordination

a. License instructional materials for the district
b. Oversee duplication of cassette tapes, videocassettes, etc.

Handle Inquiries About the Contents of Our District Instructional Materials Holdings.
Handle Any Inquiries Regarding A/V Materials, Instructional Materials, etc.

Interlibrary Loan

If you need an item that is not in our library, we will be happy to try and borrow it from another library. Interlibrary loans generally take 2 - 3 weeks to arrive. Turn in a request form at the Reference Desk or use the appropriate link below to make a request:

• Book request
• Article request

For more information on interlibrary loan, contact Mark Luetkehoelter

Learning Center

This individualized tutoring service, located in the library, is staffed by full-time instructors and student peer tutors from the Alternative Learning Division. If you need help with a class or an assignment, you may sign up at the Learning Center or call (608) 246-6262.

Library Instruction Information

We offer:

• Library research instruction classes covering information retrieval skills and strategies for writing reports and papers, as well as information literacy skills to help students manage an increasingly complex world of information.
• General program orientations covering basic library procedures and the specific reference tools for that field
• Special topic instruction for classes (e.g. audio-visual resources in the library, job-hunting on the Web, searching for images on the Web, specific subject databases and Web sites, etc.)

To schedule an instruction session, or for more information about the MATC Library Instruction Program, please contact Mark Luetkehoelter (mluetkehoelt@matcmadison.edu) or fill out our online Library Instruction Request Form.

Truax Library Instruction Room Guidelines

• The MATC Truax Library Instruction Room (230C) is meant primarily for library instruction sessions. We schedule library instruction sessions for MATC classes and encourage follow-up library research use of the room by those classes for up to two 50-minute sessions or one 75-minute or longer session. The room is not intended to be used as a classroom by instructors throughout the semester.
  
• During the semester, when an instruction session is not scheduled at the time, the Instruction Room is opened up as an overflow computer lab for students when needed.
  
• Please refer all scheduling matters and questions of the Instruction Room to the Library Instruction Coordinator, Mark Luetkehoelter.
  

Last Modified: May 14 2008