Jefferson College
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Jefferson College (known more informally as JeffCo) is a public, two-year community college located in Hillsboro, Missouri. It is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. Jefferson College was founded in 1963. It is coeducational and has a semester-based academic calendar. It was granted a Phi Theta Kappa chapter in 1965. In addition to the main campus in Hillsboro, Jefferson College operates three additional sites: the Jefferson College Arnold in Arnold, Missouri, Jefferson College Northwest in Cedar Hill, Missouri, and Jefferson College Imperial in Imperial, Missouri.
Its athletic teams are known as the Vikings, the school competes as member of the NJCAA in the Midwest Community College Athletic Conference.
The Jefferson College Library] has a book collection of over 70,000 volumes. The Library's collection includes print perioicals, best sellers, graphic novels, DVDs, Music CDs, eBooks and audiobooks. The Library is also home to the Jefferson County History Center,[1] which serves as an archive for Jefferson County. The History Center is used for genealogical research by residents of Jefferson County, Missouri. Jefferson College Library serves as a selective federal depository[2] for Missouri's Third Congressional District through its participation in the Federal Depository Library Program.[3] Many government publications are available in the Library in either a paper or an electronic format.
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- ^ "Jefferson County History Center". http://www.jeffco.edu/library/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=103&Itemid=104. Retrieved 17 November 2011.
- ^ "Jefferson College Library :Federal Depsitory Library". http://www.jeffco.edu/library/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=108&Itemid=111. Retrieved 17 November 2011.
- ^ "Federal Depository Library Program". http://www.fdlp.gov/. Retrieved 17 November 2011.
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