Learning Resource Center

Nursing Learning Resource Center (NLRC)

The NLRC is located on the first floor of the Academic Building at 333 N. Washington Avenue in Dallas. The NLRC has a circulation desk at the Tech Point Desk, and contains materials that specialize in nursing. Resources support faculty research and nursing student learning and include: research and full text databases; electronic journals; books and e-books; undergraduate textbook reserves; printers; and clinical equipment for check out. The NLRC has access to all the Baylor University Central Libraries electronic resources plus some that are LHSON access-only.

Have a Question?  Need Help?
A credentialed professional medical librarian is available to answer questions and provide research assistance weekdays between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Nursing student workers are also available to help and give advice. Need the full-text to an article? Having difficulty obtaining literature on your topic? Please come by the NLRC, call (972) 576-9200, or email nursinglrc@baylor.edu . The email is checked three times per day Monday through Friday. NLRC users may also schedule an appointment with the professional nursing librarian here: https://libcal.baylor.edu/appointments?u=70432

LRC Hours

PawPrints at the Nursing School

A supplemental printing queue is available to nursing students to simplify the printing process. Printing on legal size paper is required by some nursing instructors and installing the supplemental queue allows that option to be selected. To take advantage of the nursing printing queue please follow the following steps:

1. Install the regular PawPrints queues at www.baylor.edu/pawprints
2. Install the PawPrints-Supplement-Nursing queue at  https://baylor.box.com/v/software-for-students
3. With both installed, a user may now send all print jobs using “PawPrints-Nursing.”
4. The options the user chooses for the document: simplex/duplex, BW/color, letter/legal will determine which printer the document can be released to for completion.
5. If a user tries to release to a printer that cannot handle the options (e.g. legal to a color printer with no legal paper), the release page will deny the job and tell them why, and the user will need to reprint. 
6. The printer named Nursing-LRC-B is the only printer that allows for legal sized documents.

Staffing Hours
The Information Desk is staffed about 40 hours a week during regular semesters.  Fall and spring NLRC Desk staffing hours begin on the first day of class.  Standard Desk staffing hours during the fall and spring semesters are Monday – Friday, 8am-5pm.

NLRC Information Desk staffing hours are posted on this website and displayed on monitors around the nursing school buildings.  Desk staffing hours for holidays, summer school, breaks and between sessions vary.  These special hours will be posted in advance.  For more information, go to the NLRC website, call (972) 576-9200 or email nursinglrc@baylor.edu .

Borrowing Books and Equipment
Students may borrow most books from the NLRC for up to three weeks.  Except for textbook reserves and some NCLEX-RN review books, most books may be renewed for another three weeks by stopping by, emailing nursinglrc@baylor.edu or calling (972) 576-9200 and asking to renew the item.  You do not need to have the item with you.  However, if someone else has requested the item, it must be returned on the due date and cannot be renewed.

When the NLRC Desk is not staffed books, clinical equipment or other NLRC items may be returned on the NLRC Desk at the Tech Point location.

The following clinical equipment may be checked out at the NLRC Desk for 3 weeks:

• sphygmomanometers (blood pressure cuffs) 
• otoscope/ophthalmoscope kits

Late Fees
Late items are charged a fee for each day late past the original due date.  Computer-generated overdue notices are automatically sent to the user’s Baylor email account.  Late fees are then added to a student’s monthly Baylor bill and can be paid online.  

Reserve books:

• May be borrowed for two hours.
• You may ask to renew for a second two-hour period
  • Call 972.576.9200 or
  • Ask in person at the Information Desk.
• If the NLRC Desk is closed, return the item by leaving it on the Tech Point Desk. Send an email to Nursinglrc@baylor.edu documenting when the item was returned. The item will be checked in on the next LRC business day and any late fee will be adjusted, if necessary.

Study Guides/Reviews for NCLEX-RN and Nursing Specialties
The Nursing LRC has many study guides for NCLEX-RN and HESI specialties test review and practice which can be checked out for nursing student use. The current ones are behind the Desk.

With some exceptions, students usually may avoid late fees by renewing the item on the day the item is due.  To request a renewal, you may stop by the NLRC in person, or send an email to nursinglrc@baylor.edu or call the NLRC at (972) 576-9200. You do not have to have the item(s) with you when renewing.  

Student Employment
The NLRC hires student workers for daytime shifts during the fall and spring semesters.  Students must already be approved for Federal Work Study. NLRC jobs are posted at Baylor University’s Student Employment Center website.  Search for Nursing School Dallas LRC Student Employee.

https://www.baylor.edu/student_employment/?_buref=1155-90749