New@Norris Library

The library offers free consultation and instructional services, referred to as HouseCalls, to USC faculty, graduate students, and staff. A HouseCall can help you:

Identify and use key information resources in your field
Improve your database searching skills
Find electronic full-text journals and books
Manage journal references with productivity software
Enhance visual presentations
Use information resources more efficiently

Your HouseCall will be […]

The library’s newly renovated Technology Support Center, previously known as the Learning Resources Center, is now open and ready for services on the library’s plaza level. The reconfigured space features a reception area where users can obtain assistance with USC computer accounts, wireless access, problems accessing USC electronic information resources, reservations for the library conference […]

The Norris Library is no longer using USCard for our photocopy machines. Instead, the new copiers accept a debit card, the same card the library uses for computer printing.
Departments can purchase new debit copy cards with an internal requisition from the Library Administrative office, NML 105, Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.. These preloaded cards […]

SciVee is a new website that lets scientists communicate their works as multimedia presentations incorporated with the content of their published articles. SciVee is operated in partnership with the open access publisher the Public Library of Science (PLoS), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC).
The goal of SciVee is to improve […]

The library’s plaza level Learning Resources Center will be closed for renovation from September 18 to the first week of October.  The library’s technology support staff will temporarily relocate to the upper level Webb Room where they will be available in person, by telephone at their current phone numbers, or by email. 
The LRC will reopen […]

Beginning on August 13, the library will open 45 minutes earlier on weekdays.  This change should better accommodate students arriving on campus before classes begin.  The new schedule will be:
  Monday –Thursday        7:00 a.m. – 12:00 midnight
  Friday                           7:00 a.m. –  8:00 p.m.
Weekend hours will not change:
  Saturday                      9:00 a.m. –  5:00 p.m.
  Sunday                         9:00 a.m. –10:00 p.m.
The […]