The Mae Hilty Memorial Library

The academic heart of Texas Chiropractic College is the Mae Hilty Memorial Library. Located on the first floor of the Learning Resource Center, the library offers students—as well as the chiropractic community at large—a wealth of learning resources to augment and support the TCC curriculum.

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History
The Mae Hilty Memorial Library was founded in 1953, by the Ladies Auxiliary of the Texas Chiropractic Association. The library was named to honor Mae Fivecoat Hilty, a chiropractor’s wife who gave her life saving a nephew from drowning. With Mae Hilty as an inspiration, the library continued to grow and, in 1982, moved to its current location in TCC’s Learning Resource Center.

Mission
The TCC library exists to support the scholarship of students and faculty, and to assist in providing information to the chiropractic community at large. Toward this aim, the library offers a variety of services to its patrons, and collects books, journals, and audiovisual materials in the disciplines of chiropractic, basic science, medicine, and clinical techniques. The Library also provides facilities for group and individual study, computer use, and photocopying.

Resources
In addition to wireless Internet access, the library provides a number of resources to patrons, including:

• Reference materials, interlibrary loans, bibliographic instruction, and circulation
• Chiropractic, medical, basic science, and other scientific journals and books
• Multimedia and audiovisual materials
• Online periodical databases including PubMed, MANTIS, the Index to Chiropractic Literature, among others
• Six study rooms available for private or group study
• A computer lab with 46 fully loaded work stations offering Internet access, word processing, document scanning, and other software applications

The library employs three professional librarians and two paraprofessionals to answer questions, assist in locating information, explain the use of library tools, aid in research, and provide interlibrary loans.

Hours
Library hours are:

7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays
7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fridays
12 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sundays

The library is closed on Saturdays. Extended hours are posted during exam periods.

Contact the Library
We encourage you to contact the Mae Hilty Memorial Library at the following numbers:

Main Desk: (281) 998-6049
Reference: (281) 998-6052
Director: (281) 998-6095
Fax: (281) 487-4168

TCCLibrary@txchiro.edu