John F. Moss Library

The Texas A&M University-Texarkana library is named in honor of the university's founding president, Dr. John F. Moss. Located on the third and fourth floors in the University Center, the library is a spacious (30,157 sq ft), modern facility with large windows overlooking the campus and Eagle Lake. It has been designed to provide students, faculty, and visitors with a variety of common spaces to appeal to individual preferences and needs including casual seating, comfortable lounge areas, study nooks, group and individual study tables as well as group study rooms. Casual seating and study tables extend into the third floor lobby.

For users’ convenience, the library provides the following amenities: KIC, the Knowledge Imaging Center, which offers the ability to copy pages from books, resize, digitize and e-mail documents, or save as media files; an open computer lab for class assignments or research; computer print stations (black & white or color); scanners; the Commons Area for Leisure Reading with Best Sellers; magazines and newspaper rack; Media Services provides media equipment (digital cameras, camcorders, calculators, USB headsets, Nooks, Kindles, Notebooks); and two study rooms for collaborative study. Supplies Services offer kits containing items needed for projects as well as everyday items such as scissors, stapler, hole punch, etc., bibliographic instruction; exhibitions by regional artists and resources in a wide variety of formats.

Mission

The mission of the John F. Moss Library at Texas A&M University-Texarkana is to strengthen and enhance the library’s technological tools, resources, and support services for the university and broader community in an inclusive and open environment. In support of its mission, the library will collect, preserve, and provide access to information resources in both traditional and evolving technology formats.