Krueger Library

Krueger Library

Darrell W. Krueger Library known as Krueger Library is located on the Winona State University campus in the center of Winona, Minnesota. The library is a resource for the greater southeastern Minnesota and WSU community. It is a United States Federal depository library.

The building was completed in 1999 and was named after WSU President Darrell W. Krueger in Spring 2005, the year he retired. From 1999 until its naming, it was referred to simply as the "New Library," to distinguish it from Maxwell Hall, formerly the Maxwell Library, which was situated on the opposite side of campus. The library has three floors with over 250,000 book volumes, thousands of periodical titles, and over 100 online databases. It was built with the "Laptop University" in mind; it contains over 1,800 network ports and wireless access, and over ten high speed duplexing laser printers throughout the building.

As for technology, the library offers public terminals for internet access and printing. It also offers research computers for catalog and WSU database access to anyone in the library building. The Library's Information Gallery (IG), located on the first floor, has 42 high end multimedia computer towers, both Macintosh and PC platforms are supported. The IG circulates laptops, power and network cords, webcams, media carts which include a wide screen TV and DVD/VCR, and other peripherals, such as webcams (for WSU students only). It also has six laptop workstations for scanning. On all three floors of the library there are many study rooms in which students study and work on group projects.