Frequently Asked Questions

On our Huffington Library catalog.

Go to Library Resources. Check out the Virtual Huffington Library on Schoology for helpful information and tutorials.

• Books or DVDs
  • Students: 8
  • Faculty: 999
• Books check out for 4 weeks.
• Classic Movies (below R rating) check out for 1 week.
• Instructional DVDs can be checked out for 1 week but only with the permission (via email or phone) of an instructor or library staff.

Please note: there are also DVD players and projectors available for checkout.

When you first open the Huffington Library Catalog page, look in the upper right corner for the "Log in" button, and click it. Enter your student id number for both your Library Card Number and your PIN. Once you have logged in, you can renew books you are still reading, and place holds for things you'd like to read.

You will receive an e-mail notice. Please respond to the e-mail immediately (to library@culver.org) or return your items to the Welcome Desk. Remember that library resources are shared, and others may be waiting for these materials.  If you need to renew, you can renew online (see above) or ask us to help you. If the library does not hear from you, your counselor will be notified.  

We do our best to get you the resources you want! We have a budget to purchase requested materials. Additionally, through a service called Inter-Library Loan (ILL) we are able to borrow books from other libraries.  Place your request at the Welcome Desk, or email the library (library@culver.org). 

Please note: materials we have borrowed through ILL are only delivered to Culver once a week, so you will need to plan ahead.

Only bottled water is allowed.

Underclassmen are required to be in the library before 8:00 PM and must stay until 9:40 PM. Seniors and juniors with full seconds may come and go as long as they sign in/out and are not disruptive.

There are several areas for group study. There are 8 small group study rooms. The first floor tables are also used for collaborative work. Please be aware of your volume so all library users can be productive.

There are several printers on campus you can use to print, scan to pdf (and email it to yourself), or make copies. In the library, there is a printer at the Welcome Desk and one on the 2nd floor near the front entrance.

Please be responsible: respect copyright, print only what you need, and use the recycle bins across campus!

The Huffington Library welcomes and encourages gifts in support of the Culver Academies mission. Over the years, the library has benefited tremendously from the generosity of donors and continues to rely heavily upon endowments to sustain the collection for the benefit of the students, faculty and staff.

Huffington Library Gift Policy

Interested donors are encouraged to contact the Development Office at 574-842-7400 or developmentadmin@culver.org and must submit a list of materials (electronically if possible) for consideration as donations before physically depositing any materials. On this list, please include the author, title, date of publication and general condition of each item. If the Library agrees to accept the materials, the Development Office will work with the donor to provide a gift acknowledgement letter which includes a charitable gift receipt for tax purposes.

For donations in excess of $5,000, a qualified appraisal must be obtained at the expense of the donor before the books are presented to the library and possibly processed into the library collection. Neither the Library nor Culver Academies is responsible for appraisals.

The Library's goal in accepting gifts is to acquire only those materials that 1) support the current and evolving curriculum at Culver Academies, 2) support the basic research needs of students, faculty, and staff and 3) meet the criteria of its collection development policy in terms of nature, quality, and condition. While many donated titles may be of merit, we may have to decline materials as they are out of the normal scope of our collection or duplicate existing holdings.

If gifts are accepted, it should be understood that the Huffington Library at Culver Academies becomes the owner of the material and reserves the right to determine its retention, location, use, maintenance and removal. The Library accepts donations only on the condition that we may dispose of those items that will not be added to the collection in whatever manner we determine to be the most suitable. Those options include donations to nonprofit institutions such as Better World Books, exchanges for needed books of equal value, or sales, with the money to be used to purchase collection materials. Any materials that we find to be so deteriorated as to make them unfit for storage and/or use will be discarded according to policy.

We cannot promise to maintain a collection or group of books as a single entity segregated from the circulating and reference collections. The library may also decline to accept special collections, unless they are accompanied by significant, designated funding to cover the cost of processing and maintenance.

If you have any questions, please email the Huffington Library or contact the Director of Huffington Library, Becky Strati, via email at Rebecca.Strati@culver.org or by phone 574-842-7811.