Library Hours | Phone Numbers | Library Staff
- DVD/Video Request for Faculty
Email your request to Kay Culhane, kculhane@aurora.edu. - Feedback Form
Send us your comments about Phillips Library services. - Ask a Librarian
Live chat instant message with a Phillips Library reference librarian and get quick answers to common questions. - Text a Librarian: 630-796-7615
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Send an email message to a Phillips Library reference librarian. - Library Access Information
Consult this chart for information on accessing licensed materials from on and off campus.
Phillips Library houses a collection of more than 92,000 books and 8,000 multimedia materials. Electronic resources include 125,000 ebooks and an online catalog networked with 76 academic and research libraries in the state. More than 80 indexes and online databases provide current students, faculty, and staff with access to 35,000 unique periodical titles. Over 80 online subject research guides are also available. Phillips Library is open 102 hours a week, seven days a week when classes are in session, and offers a variety of services to the campus community:
- Circulation of books, multimedia materials and curriculum materials
- Reference books and indexes
- Instruction in the use of information resources and research assistance for individuals, small groups and classes
- Interlibrary loan of books and periodical articles from other libraries through membership in a series of networks: CARLI, SILC, I-SHARE, OCLC, LIBRAS and the DuPage Library System
- Audiovisual and instructional materials, listening and viewing facilities for course-related assignments
- Small-group study areas
The Library Code of Conduct is available to download as a pdf file. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Library hours are based on the University's Academic Calendar.
| May Term and Summer 2013 | |
| May 06 - 24 | |
| Monday - Thursday | 8:00am-6:00pm |
| Friday | 8:00am-5:00pm |
| Saturday | 9:00am-1:00pm |
| Sunday | Closed |
| May 25 - 27 Memorial Day Weekend | Closed |
| May 28 - June 2 | |
| Tuesday - Friday | 8:00am-5:00pm |
| Saturday and Sunday | Closed |
| June 3 - August 9 | |
| Monday - Thursday | 8:00am-6:00pm |
| Friday | 8:00am-5:00pm |
| Saturday | 9:00am-1:00pm |
| Sunday | Closed |
| July 4th Independence Day | Closed |
| August 10 - 25 | |
| Monday - Friday | 8:00am-5:00pm |
| Saturday - Sunday | Closed |
| August 21st, Wednesday (Closed in morning) | 1:00pm-5:00pm |
| Reference Help Please Note: Reference Help is not available after 9:00 p.m. Sunday or 10:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday. |
| General Information |
630-844-5437
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| Reference Questions |
630-844-7534 (phone)
630-708-6135 (text)
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| Interlibrary Loan |
630-844-5439
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| Circulation Desk |
630-844-7583
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| Fax |
630-844-3848
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| The Jenks Collection |
- Kathy Clark, Information Services Librarian
- Kay Culhane, Access Services Manager
- Jewel Huggins, Library Secretary
- Lauren Jackson-Beck, Information Services Librarian
- John Law, Director
- Nancy Mactague, Research & Electronic Resources Librarian
- Amy Schlumpf Manion, Information Services Librarian
- F. Elizabeth Nicholson, Information Services Librarian - Part-time
- Susan Palmer, Curator, Jenks Collection of Adventual Materials
- Andi Seifrid, Acquisitions Manager
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