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For Your Classes | For Your Research

For Your Classes

Placing Materials on Reserve

Please fill out the Instructor Reserve Request Form.

Research Instruction for Your Class

The Reference/Instruction Librarians at JFK Library and Riverpoint Campus Library can provide instruction on using library resources for your classes. This instruction can take a variety of forms, from face-to-face instruction in the Library Instruction Room at JFK or Riverpoint, to detailed online guides created for the specific class.

Contact either:

• Ielleen Miller, Coordinator of Instruction at 359-4816, or
• the librarian assigned to your department.

Link to the Library or Articles in Your Blackboard Site

To add a button or link to the EWU Libraries homepage in your Course Menu, go to Control Panel, then under Course Options, click on Manage Course Menu. In the Add menu at the top, click on External Link. Then you can insert the URL http://www.ewu.edu/library for the library homepage. (If you choose to have this and other external sites or documents open in a new window, warn your students that they'll need to allow pop-ups in Blackboard.) 

 

Full Text Articles

While Blackboard makes it easy to put up articles you have saved or scanned, this would be violating copyright. You have a couple options for adding articles legally.

If the article is full text in one of our databases, such as ProQuest or JSTOR, it's very likely to have a permanent URL. For the article to be accessible off-campus, it must go through our proxy server, and therefore the URL will look something like this: http://ezproxy.library.ewu.edu:2048/login?url=http:...

If the article doesn't have a unique URL or isn't full text, arrange to have it put on electronic reserve by contacting the Circulation Department.

Distance Education Support

See Services for Distance Education for instructions on obtaining books and articles, as well as library research instruction for your students.

Collection Development

Each department is given an allocation towards purchasing books, videos, journals and databases for their discipline. Each department has a library liaison to coordinate materials to purchase. On the library side, Ted Otto is the Collection Development Coordinator. The Purchase Request form may be filled out only by authorized faculty. (Password required.)

For other suggestions for materials the library ought to purchase, please use our Suggest a Purchase form.

Useful databases for academic book reviews:

• ChoiceReviews.online -- concise reviews for academic books, back to 1988
• Doody's Review Service -- expert reviews for books and software for health sciences. See Reference Desk for login.
• RCLWeb: Resources for College Libraries -- descriptions of over 65,000 titles; can browse core lists of titles, or keyword search for specific titles. Includes Choice book reviews if available.
• SB&F Online: Science Books & Films -- reviews of over 9,000 titles for relevant materials, elementary through college-level. Contact the Reference Desk for the password.

For Your Research

Riverpoint Campus Library

Because the Riverpoint Campus Library is shared with WSU, you have access to more databases, such as Social Sciences Citation Index (1990-present). But you have to be on the Riverpoint Campus to access these WSU databases.

Interlibrary Loan

Forms are available online to request articles, as well as books that aren't available in Summit. Click First Time Users to set up an individual account the first time you use the system. See Interlibrary Loan for more information.

Renew Books & Review Account

Go to View Your Record to see what you have checked out from EWU and other Summit libraries, and renew titles. Most EWU materials can be renewed two times before you have to bring them back. Summit materials can only be renewed once.

Proxy Cards

You may authorize a research assistant to check out materials on your behalf. Contact the Circulation Department for the form.

Check Out Periodicals

Periodicals may be checked out by faculty for 3 days/no renewals. (Fines are rather steep -- $5 per day/per item, so be sure to bring them back on time.)

Library Study Carrels & Faculty Lounge

There are some lockable study carrels designated for faculty and graduate students working on their thesis. Contact the Circulation Department about availability.

The Library Faculty Lounge, next to the newspapers on the Main Level, is open to all faculty from 8am to 3pm.

Make a Suggestion

  Do you have a suggestion, compliment or concern that you'd like to share with the library?  Use our online form to send us your feedback.