For Faculty
The Library provides the following special services for faculty members. Please contact your liaison librarian with additional questions.
- Library Instruction: Integrating Information Literacy
- Options for Customizing Library Instruction
- Print and Online E-Reserves
- Audiovisual Reserves
- Document Delivery
- On-Site Borrowing from Other Institutions
- Research Alerts
- Films and Videos from Other Institutions
- Linking Journal Articles in Blackboard and Web Sites
- Databases from the State Library of Pennsylvania
- Multimedia
Services and Audiovisual Equipment
PRINT AND E-RESERVES
Print reserves and E-Reserves
can be arranged by filling out the Course
Reserve Request form and contacting Kathy Manning,
724-738-4458. Course Reserves must be materials owned by the
faculty member or the library and must comply with
Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers.
Instructions for accessing e-reserves are available
here.
AUDIOVISUAL RESERVES
Films, CDs and other audiovisual materials can be placed on reserve in
the Instructional Materials Center by filling out the Faculty
Audiovisual Reserve Form and contacting Kathy Frampton,
724-738-2511. Course Reserves must be materials owned by the
faculty member or the library and must comply with
Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers.
DOCUMENT
DELIVERY
Faculty can obtain full document delivery services by filling out the interlibrary
loan request form, whether the item is owned by Bailey
Library or is to be obtained from another institution.
Articles will be digitized and sent to the faculty member's email
address. Questions should be directed to Rita McClelland,
724-738-2580.
RESEARCH ALERTS
Free email alerts can be
created for searches, keywords, journals, and web sites to keep you
informed of the most recent developments and publications in your field
of interest. For example, researchers can set up search alerts
and journal alerts in EBSCO databases, keyword alerts in Google, current awareness and research alerts in RefWorks, and
journal alerts on individual publisher's web sites. A
personalized account can be created by choosing a username and
password. EBSCO databases also support
RSS feeds that can be read in an aggregator such as Bloglines.
Contact your
liaison librarian for additional information.
LINKING JOURNAL
ARTICLES
Most major journal article and research databases provide a "durable
url*" to articles that may be copied and pasted into web
pages or Blackboard course sites. For example:
- EBSCO databases: Email the article to yourself, copy and paste the durable url that appears at the bottom of the email.
- GALE databases: Choose Bookmark This Document, copy and paste the resulting durable url.
- WILSON databases: Persistent urls are provided at the bottom of citations and abstracts. Copy and paste the url into your application.
Some durable urls expire within a set amount of time. For that reason, faculty may prefer to save articles as pdf or web files and upload or link the entire document. This type of usage must be aligned with Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers. Linking to articles via a durable url complies with copyright guidelines and vendor licensing. Consult the HELP screen for individual databases to determine specific procedures.
*Durable urls are also called persistent urls or PURLS.