With over 100 computers for instant student use, high-speed Internet access, wireless network, study rooms, digital scanning, and a color printer for assignments, the Magale Library serves as a hub center for students studying, checking email, and organizing electronic research.

In addition to individual PCs, the library features an extensive collection of monographs, academic journals(print & electronic), archived rare books and manuscripts relating to the history of Centenary College of Louisiana, the United Methodist Church in Louisiana, the state of Louisiana and the city of Shreveport.

Library Features

• Experienced Public Access staff offering about 80 hours of service weekly
• More than 251,477 cataloged volumes
• Book published after 2001 are on the New Book Shelves on first floor
• Other books published 2002 and after are on second floor with the paper journals
• On- and off-campus access to database electronic research
• Three computer classroom labs
• Multimedia screening room
• Subscriptions to over 179,934 journal resources online and 241 databases of which, 183 are full-text
• Interlibrary Loan service designed to help Centenary faculty, students & staff acquire all types of research materials unavailable in the collection, obtaining these materials on loan or in photocopy from libraries in the ARKLA-Tex area, the U.S., and other parts of the world.
• 358 print journals
• An extensive collection of VHS video tapes and DVDs.