Xavier University Library: Library Privileges: Faculty

Access to Library Resources and Services are for Xavier University faculty with an active status, including adjunct and part-time faculty, and may require your XU ALL Card. If you do not have this card see the staff at the ALL Card Center on the second floor of the Gallagher Student Center about obtaining one. Please review the library's Notice of Responsible Use.

Resources and services that require your XU ALL Card display the ID card required icon.

Circulation Services are available for materials in the XPLORE and OhioLINK library catalogs. These materials may be requested online (help requesting). See borrowing privileges for information about loan periods, renewals, loan limits, overdue fines and replacement charges. XPLORE materials are picked up and returned to the circulation desk in Xavier's library; OhioLINK materials may be picked up and returned to Xavier or to another OhioLINK library more convenient for you (pickup anywhere help). If materials are overdue, it is more cost efficient to return them to Xavier's library. For materials not available through Xavier or OhioLINK see document delivery services.

Collection Development Services provides books, journals, research databases and other materials to support your classes and research. For more information contact Marty Ferrell, Collection Development Librarian, at 513 745-4806 or ferrell@xavier.edu. Use the acquisitions online form to request new library materials. This form must be printed, signed by your department's liaison to the library or your department chair, and submitted via interdepartmental mail to Patty Grecol, Acquisitions Librarian, University Library, ML 5211.

Document Delivery Services may be used to request materials not available in the library's collections, including electronic collections, or through OhioLINK. These services are available at no charge and are accessible through the library's online forms. Notices for the arrival of document delivery materials are sent to your Xavier email account accessible through MyXU, the campus portal. For many journal articles the email notice will provide a password and link to the full-text of the article. Document delivery services are also available for mateials in the Library Annex.

Education Services include library instruction, faculty workshops, orientations, tours, research consultations, and library updates (in the library, your office, or during departmental faculty meetings). To make arrangements, contact your librarian liaison or Betty Porter, Assistant Director for Education Services, at 513 745-4830 or porter@xavier.edu.

Electronic Reserves (http://library.xu.edu/) is available with a password for both on-and off-campus locations. If you do not know your password, contact the reference desk at 513 745-4808 (hours). In addition electronic reserve services are available for you to use in your classes. You can manage your own account (online help) or have the library do it for you. Links can be made from Blackboard or MyXU courses to your electronic reserves course. For help see the Library Links Toolkit or contact your librarian liaison. Materials that need to be scanned before they are placed on electronic reserves must be accompanied by an electronic or PDF form and brought to the document delivery office. Materials in digital format may be attached to an email message that includes information about your course, and sent to Anne Davies, Public Services Librarian/Document Delivery, at 513 745-4803 or davies@xavier.edu. See also Traditional Reserve Services.

Equipment & Supplies, such as computer workstations, wireless laptops, cameras, printers, scanners, microform reader/printers, audiovisual equipment, typewriter, microscopes and Elison Die, are accessible in the library at no charge. The following services have nominal charges and/or limitations:

Laminator - $1/foot of laminating material
Photocopiers-10¢/page
Production room supplies (paper, poster board, etc.) - cost varies
Computer workstations and wireless laptops - log into computer workstations using your MyXU, capmus portal, user name and password; log out of the computer when you are finished using it, so that the next person to use that workstation does not have access to your files.

Information Fluency Institute, a collaboration between faculty, librarians, and instructional technology staff, helps to integrate information fluency competencies into the curriculum. For more information, contact one of the Institute's coordinators.

Internet Access is available in the library using 73 public workstations and 45 wireless laptops.

Reference Assistance is available in-person and by telephone (513 745-4808) during reference desk hours. Email and online chat reference assistance is available 24/7.

RefWorks is an online bibliographic management service that permits you to create a database of references from search results in online research databases. In-text citations and and bibliographies are automatically formatted with the click of a button in a citation style of your choosing. For more information, view our RefWorks help page or contact Marcia Poggione, Assistant Director for Public Services, at 513 745-3971 or poggione@xavier.edu.

Traditional Reserves is accessible from XPLORE by professor or course name. These materials must be picked up and returned to the circulation desk in the library. Some of these materials must be used only in the library. For information about loan periods, hourly overdue fines and replacement charges, see your borrowing privileges. In addition traditional reserves are available for you to use in your classes. Materials to be placed on traditional reserves must be accompanied by a form (PDF) and brought to the circulation desk. See also Electronic Reserve Services.

TurnItIn (http://turnitin.com/) is the library's plagiarism prevention and detection service. To set up an account for your class and for help using this service, contact Michelle Early, Bibliographic Control Services Librarian, at 513 745-4817 or early@xavier.edu.

Xtreme Subject Guides group library resources by subject which help you and your students find articles in research databases, books, journals, media, websites, a librarian liaison and context-specific help in a specific academic discipline. If you have suggestions for an existing guide, would like a guide created for a particular course, or would like a link to a guide in your Blackboard or MyXU course, contact your librarian liaison. If you cannot find a guide for your academic discipline, contact Marcia Poggione, Assistant Director for Public Services, at 513 745-3971 or poggione@xavier.edu.

xu.tutor, the library's online tutorials, will help you and your students define a research topic, optimize search strategies, identify useful sources, evaluate websites, prevent plagiarism, and find library materials. These web-based, self-paced tutorials make good homework assignments. For students to take the quizzes at the end of each module, you must make arrangements with Anne Davies, Public Services Librarian/Document Delivery, at 513 745-4803 or davies@xavier.edu