Lamar State College Port Arthur 2016-17 Catalog | Page 11

Lamar State College Port Arthur
2016-2017 Catalog
38,000 subscriptions in both paper and electronic
formats. Special areas feature a law collection, a
textbook collection, a career collection, a children’s
collection, a Texana collection, a rare book collection
and a best-seller collection.
The Gates Library is a member of AMIGOS
Bibliographic Council, which provides inter-library
loan services to more than 400 libraries statewide
and 20,000 libraries worldwide. Other affiliations
included the Consortium of Academic Libraries and
Learning.
Resources and TexShare, which provides on-site
borrowing services for LSCPA students and faculty
at most academic libraries statewide. Students also
may use their student ID to check out materials at
Lamar University, Lamar Institute of Technology,
Lamar State College-Orange and the Port Arthur
Public Library.

Student Success Center

and regulations. The center’s library provides
additional information about many business fields.
Since its inception, the SBDC has created 2,340 jobs,
assisted in obtaining more than $81 million in
loans/equity, helped start 307 new business, held
505 business training classes and assisted 3,440
clients.
The SBDC, 1401 Procter St., works in association
with Lamar State College-Port Arthur, the
University of Houston and the U.S. Small Business
Administration.

The Museum of the Gulf Coast

The Museum of the Gulf Coast, 700 Procter St. in
historic downtown Port Arthur, uses creative
approaches and outstanding programs to tell the
history of the Upper Gulf Coast and its rich cultural
heritage. The museum, which opened July 2, 1994
traces its origins to the chartering of the Port Arthur
Museum in 1964.
The museum has grown into one of the most
significant educational and tourist attractions in
Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana.
Among its permanent exhibits are features on the
geology and prehistory of the region, its earliest
inhabitants, the first European contacts and the
establishment of the oil industry.

The Student Success Center (SSC) provides help for
students needing assistance with study skills or
remediation in the areas of math, English and
reading. Computer-aided tutorial programs and
teacher certified tutors are available to students.
The Student Success Center houses a testing center
and administers approved tests for TSI purposes
and other diagnostic tests.

The museum also features the Snell Gallery, which
is dedicated to the decorative arts. Popular culture
exhibits focus on figures such as Janis Joplin and the
Big Bopper in the music world and Coach Jimmy
Johnson and Babe Zaharias in sports.

Small Business Development Center

The Small Business Development Center supports
economic development in Port Arthur, Groves,
Nederland and Port Neches by providing counseling,
training and technical assistance to owners and
managers of new and existing small businesses.

A replica of Janis Joplin’s car is a major attraction
at the Museum of the Gulf Coast.

The center offers confidential consulting on a variety
of topics, including business plan preparation,
finance sources, marketing, personnel actions, taxes

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