Services
Leisure Reading
While our primary goal is to support academic endeavors, the library also strives to provide leisure reading in line with SAGU's media policies. You can search for fiction in our catalog just like you search for research, or you may browse our shelves in person to see what sparks an interest. Our fiction is located in a few Dewey locations.
- 810-819: American Fiction
- Most will be in the 813s
- Young Adult Literature can be found in the 819s and in the CL-N section
- 820-829: English Fiction
- Most will be in the 823s
- Shakespeare is in 822.33 S527
- 830-899: World Literature
- Standard eBooks This link opens in a new windowPublic domain literature. All Standard eBooks have been updated with aesthetics and modern functionality in mind and are DRM-free.
Looking for a novel we don't have? Request an ILL or recommend a purchase!
Public Library Partnership
Waxahachie's Nicholas P. Sims Library now offers SAGU students access to public library eResources! Simply bring your SAGU ID and a valid driver's license/ID into the Sims Library to apply for a free eLibrary card, which will allow you to access all their databases and use their computers.
This e-Library card grants you access to these great resources (and more!):
- Overdrive/Libby eBooks (thousands of fiction and nonfiction eBooks)
- Mango Language Learning
- Ancestry: Library Edition
- Salem History (1941-1970 Great Events)
- DAR History of Ellis County, Texas
- Cypress Resume
- TumbleBooks Library
- Chilton's Online Auto Repair Database
- DrivingTests.org