Welcome to the Scott Memorial Library Virtual Tour!

View of the Scott Memorial Library from the Plaza

Samuel Parsons Scott

Scott Memorial Library is named for Samuel Parsons Scott, a lawyer from Hillsboro Ohio who claimed to have been cured of a chronic respiratory ailment by a JMC professor. Mr. Scott bequeathed his personal library of over 8,000 books, along with an endowment, to Jefferson; the Library was dedicated to him in 1931. Scott Library moved to its present location at 1020 Walnut Street in August of 1970.

Today the collection consists of approximately 213,000 bound volumes, over 2,600 current serials subscriptions and more than 1,800 audiovisual items. In addition, Scott Library is home to the University Archives.

Library services include lending, reference, interlibrary loan, Internet access, mediated online searching, quiet study areas, photocopiers, computer application support, and user education. Many of the Library's services are freely available via JEFFLINE, the Library's Web interface, and computer workstations are located throughout the building. By using their Campus Keys, members of the Jefferson community can access additional restricted resources on JEFFLINE, such as electronic databases and journals, from on- or off-campus computers.

To take the tour, you may:

• click the next & previous page buttons in the lower-right and lower-left,
• jump to different parts of the tour using the pull-down menu below, or
• click on maps, when available.