Services for you

Distance Student Information

Contacts:
Kathleen Nelson, Librarian, Austin Campus
Telephone: 507-433-0533

Angie Schaper, Librarian, Albert Lea Campus
Telephone:507-379-3368

Student ID/Library Cards
Student picture ID cards is your library card.  Students are required to have this card to check out library materials.This includes reserve materials. These cards can be obtained free of charge from the student services centers in all three campus locations. 

If you are a Riverland Community College distance student and never get to any of the three campuses, please send an email message to the Library or call either the Austin Library at 507-433-0533 or the Albert Lea Library at 507-379-3368. Be sure to give us your full name and student identification number and we will mail a card to your home address.

Access to Riverland Books
This is our online catalog. Use Riverland Books to locate books, videos, CDs, DVDs, electronic books, selected Internet resources, and numerous other kinds of information in the Riverland Libraries. These materials can be requested from our libraries by phone or email.   Riverland has a number of electronic books that are also available for use by our students.  These can be searched by using the online catalog. 

Materials From Other Minnesota Libraries
Online catalogs from other libraries can also be searched from the Riverland library webpage.  There is a short summary of each catalog at this link.

Library Help Page
This webpage is useful for distance and on campus students.  Information on this page includes contact name, phone numbers, help for using the MnPALS, and APA and MLA sample style sheets.

Access to Online Databases
The Riverland online database can be accessed from remote locations using our proxy server. More information can be found about the proxy server on the library help webpage.

When on campus, the online databases are available on any campus at any computer station.

Interlibrary Loan
ILL is a service for Riverland students, faculty, and staff that allows our patrons to request books and other materials from other libraries in Minnesota  More information about interlibrary loan can be found on our interlibrary loan page.  Distance patrons can request that books requested via interlibrary loans be mailed to their home address.  Mailing will add an additional two days to the wait time for the loan materials.  Patrons will be responsible for the cost of returning the materials to the library.