The Max E. Benitz Memorial Library

The Max E. Benitz Memorial Library is the library serving the Washington State University (WSU) Tri-Cities campus. The Library is a unit of the Consolidated Libraries located in the Consolidated Information Center (CIC) Building. The libraries, which constitute the Consolidated Libraries, are: the Benitz Library, the Hanford Technical Library, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Public Reading Room, and the Southeastern Washington Business Information Center (BIC).

Hours

• Monday - Thursday 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. 
• Friday - 8:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
• Saturday - 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Instant Messaging

We're also happy to chat with you via IM using the following screen names:

• Yahoo! Messenger: wsutclibrary
• MSN Messenger: library@tricity.wsu.edu

Contacts

Circulation Desk:

Phone:  509-372-7303

• Fax:  509-372-7281
• E-mail: lib-req@tricity.wsu.edu

Reference Desk:

• Phone:  509-372-7430

Interlibrary Loan Desk:

• Phone:  509-372-7430
• Fax:  509-372-7281
• E-mail:  intloan@tricity.wsu.edu

Location

The Library is located in the Consolidated Information Center (CIC) Building, 2770 University Drive, Richland, Washington.

The mailing address:

WSU Tri-Cities Library

2710 University Drive
Richland, WA 99352-1671

The Benitz Library includes an on-site collection of books, periodical issues, and microfiche, shelved in combination with the collections of the Hanford Technical Library. Both the DOE Public Reading Room for the southeastern Washington region and BIC have their own separate sections.

Wireless computer access to the campus network, and library electronic resources, is available in the library and around campus to currently enrolled WSU TC students with laptop computers and a wireless modem. The computers must first be registered with campus Computer Services, CIC Rm. 225.

Laptop computers are also available to currently enrolled WSU TC students on two-hour loan. The laptops have a built-in wireless modems and come with the full suite of Microsoft Office applications installed along with other software. Laptops may be checked out from the Library's Circulation Desk.

The Benitz Library has its own Friends group, the Friends of the Max E. Benitz Memorial Library. Want to support the Library in a special way?  Become a Friend and an Adopt-A-Book supporter.

Services

In addition to supplying on-site materials through its local collections, the Benitz Library facilitates access to the extensive library collections and electronic resources at the other WSU campuses. The online portal to all the campus collections and an extensive range of electronic information services is the WSU Libraries Gateway with links to Griffin, the online catalog for all the WSU libraries and to online Article Indexes/E-Journals and to Summit, the combined online catalog of major college and university libraries in Oregon, Idaho and Washington. Students and faculty may borrow materials from the other WSU and Summit libraries.

These and other electronic information services are described in a series of Quick Reference Guides that are also available on the Web.

Materials requested through Griffin and Summit will be delivered to the Circulation Desk here at the Tri-Cities library for pick up within just a few days.  Benitz Library users are requested to search Griffin and Article Indexes/E-Journals first to determine if the materials they want are available from the WSU libraries before they request them from the other locations.

Please note there are overdue fines for items checked out at WSU libraries for all materials that are not returned on time.

The WSU Libraries have access to thousands of journals, newsletters, popular magazines, and newspapers via the Web in full text formats and many journals in print and on microform.  Go to the WSU Libraries Gateway page and to the Leona catalog to search for print and electronic journals held by the Benitz Library and the Hanford Technical Library respectively. Materials ordered from other WSU libraries are free for WSU Tri-Cities faculty, staff, and students.  There may be charges for materials ordered from libraries outside the State system.

Students, faculty, and staff should order books directly using the Request Item feature in Griffin or Summit, the Orbis/Cascade combined catalog.

Journal articles not locally available can be requested by filling out a form in the library or going to the following pages to fill out a document request order form:  Web Request Order Form. Check WSU Tri-Cities Periodical List and Griffin Electronic Gateway Electronic Journal List: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu before ordering articles.