Faculty Guide to Library Services
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The purpose of the Library is to provide an organized, readily accessible collection of print, media, and online resources to meet the instructional and curricular needs of students and faculty. The Library has a collection of over 45,000 book volumes and more than 1300 media programs, and access to thousands of periodical titles (available in print and/or online) and over 10,000 e-book titles. Most of the resources in the Library are specifically chosen to support the College's curriculum.
The Library offers a variety of materials including:
- Current materials written at a technical level not usually found in the collections of other libraries. Titles in the collection support both academic and technical courses.
- Individual service tailored to the programs and assignments taught at New England Tech.
- Books, periodicals, electronic resources, and media.
- An online catalog searchable by subject, author, title, or keyword that provides the location and availability of book, periodical, media and electronic resource titles.
- Electronic reference sources, including full-text periodical data bases, e-books, newspapers and subject-specific databases, searchable from any computer with Internet access. (See Library staff for web address and passwords.)
- A website [ http://library.neit.edu ] that is searchable by keyword and provides off-campus access to: the online catalog, full-text periodical databases, websites for research and general information, electronic versions of Library publications and handouts, Internet search tips, and tutorials.
- Individualized and group instruction that will help you improve your research skills, use the Internet more effectively, and select and use the appropriate electronic resources for research.
- Helpful booklets that include information on how to set up a research paper, cite sources appropriately, and write a resume and cover letter.
- Interlibrary loan for those resources not available in the Library.
Encourage your students to use New England Tech's Library.
If you have any questions about the Library's resources and services, please stop in at the Library or call:
Extension 3553
---- Director of the Library and Information Commons
Extension 3472
---- Reference
Extension 3409
---- Circulation
The Library contains books selected to support the courses taught at New England Institute of Technology. This unique collection includes a wide variety of technical materials not available in other libraries.
The circulation period for books is three weeks renewable at the end of each three-week period. However, materials may be recalled at the end of any three-week period if another person is waiting for the book. If necessary, books may be borrowed by faculty for long-term use for a maximum of one quarter. If you find you need a book for more than one quarter, please recommend to your department chair that a department purchase of the item be made.
The Library's Online Catalog (searchable by subject, author, title and keyword) provides information on the location and availability of book, periodical and media titles.
- Loan is for 3 weeks from the date the book is borrowed.
- Books can be renewed – in person, by telephone, on online via the Patron Review of the Library Catalog– twice, unless requested by another patron.
- Student grades and transcripts are withheld and replacement costs are charged if books are not returned.
- Media circulate to faculty only.
- Reference books and periodicals do not circulate.
- The Library's Reference Collection includes dictionaries, directories, codes and standards, manuals, almanacs, and encyclopedias. The reference collection covers technical fields as well as general areas of knowledge.
- Electronic resources include the online catalog; indexes, abstracts, and full-text periodicals; Internet access (all of which can be accessed from any computer with Internet access); encyclopedias; dictionaries; and a wide variety of reference tools.
- Tours and bibliographic instruction classes tailored to your instructional needs can be arranged by contacting the Reference Department at extension 3472.
- Faculty can borrow reference books overnight at the discretion of the Director of the Library.
The periodicals collection includes scholarly journals, general interest magazines, trade journals, newsletters, and newspapers. Some of the periodicals are general and can be used for research in non-technical subjects and others apply directly to the technologies. The Library also subscribes to EBSCOhost which includes full text for thousands of periodicals and can be accessed on campus and from home. This subscription service includes numerous databases on many subjects. A username and password are required for access to EBSCOhost. Contact Library staff for assistance.
- The Periodical Holdings List includes all paper/ print subscription holdings, years owned, format (paper, electronic or bound) and indexes.
- Periodicals do not circulate (there is a copier in the Library for student and faculty use).
- Faculty can borrow periodicals overnight at the discretion of the Director of the Library (x3553, or email)
The Library's primary index is EBSCOhost, an online subscription service that provides subject access, abstracts of articles, and full-text for over 20,000 newspapers, journals, trade publications, and magazines. For details on the databases included in EBSCOhost Web, go to the EBSCO description on the Online Databases, Periodicals, Newspapers and Books page.
Books online!
Books 24X7 (online full-text computer books)
Passwords needed on- and off-campus
Students: Blackboard username and password
Faculty: ATS username/password
Supplementary course materials and textbooks can be placed on reserve for student use. Faculty can reserve books by using the Reserve Request Form (pdf version or Word version) Word forms can be completed and e-mailed (Circulation – Reserves). PDF forms can be mailed through campus mail, dropped off at the Circulation Desk of the Library, or e-mailed to Circulation – Reserves. Reserve Request Forms are also available at the Library and on the College's Intranet under the FORMS button.
Instructions for checking the online catalog to determine what you have on Reserve.
- Reserve materials are available at the Circulation Desk (Ext. 3409) and can be signed out for use within the Library.
- The Library does not own copies of all of the textbooks used in technical classes. We will obtain textbooks and keep them on reserve only if requested. If you need copies of books on reserve, we must know by week 9 of the previous quarter.
- All required texts for humanities and social science courses are automatically placed on reserve since students are not as likely to purchase texts not related to their technology.
- After each quarter, all items and books previously placed on reserve are removed and returned to their original location, unless an instructor has made other arrangements with the Circulation Department of the Library.
- Reserves cannot be checked out of the Library.
The Library has about 1300 media programs comprised of DVDs, videos and CDs which may be used to supplement or complement classroom instruction.
- All media programs are searchable by title, author, subject and keyword in the Online Catalog.
- Students must use media in the Library.
- Faculty can check media out for use in class. Media should be reserved in advance, allowing Library staff to be sure that software is in the Library when you need it. Please use the Faculty Book/Media Reserve Request Form to reserve materials. Because media materials are used for a variety of courses, the Library requests that materials be returned as soon after the class as possible.
- Media circulate to faculty only with a 7 day loan period.
- If a student must use a media program as part of a classroom presentation, the program must be borrowed from the Library by the student's instructor.
- Media titles are purchased and added to the Library collection at the recommendation of the faculty.
- If the Library does not own the materials that you need, we can obtain them through Interlibrary Loan. It usually takes several days to two weeks to receive the articles or books.
- Interlibrary Loan Request Forms are available online in .pdf format from the home page of the Library Website. ILL forms can also be obtained at the Reference Desk. Submit the forms directly to the Reference staff. Please provide as much information as possible to speed up the process of locating the correct materials.
- We participate in the Rhode Island Library Information Network (RHILINET) and LYRASIS (for New England libraries) which allow us access to local, regional, national, and international interlibrary loan programs.
The Library staff welcomes suggestions for the purchase of books, periodicals, and media. Please send your recommendations for books to the Technical Services Assistant and for all other items to the Director of the Library.
The Library staff has prepared booklets and handouts for the faculty and students of New England Tech which include general information, bibliographies, information literacy, and writing skills. Copies are available in the Library or can be printed and sent to you for classroom distribution (with several days' notice). The contents of these booklets and handouts are also published on this website on the Research Guides and Tutorials page.
- Writing Skills: Includes Research Paper Format (APA Style), Resume Preparation Tips, and Preparing a Cover Letter.
- Faculty Development Bibliography Series: Twice each year, a bibliography is published listing the Library's resources on important topics in education.
- Copies – faculty can obtain a bypass key at the Circulation Desk.
- The Library provides carrels and group study rooms for research and quiet study.
— Director of the Library & Information Commons
Susan Warthman, (Ext. 3553)
— Catalog Librarian
Cynthia Pankiewicz (Ext. 3474)
— Reference Librarians (Ext. 3472)
Alfred Arsenault, Joseph Holland, Grayce Moorehead, Elisa Parello Jepson, Jaci Udaloff, Chris Matos
— Technical Services Assistant
Leslie Tracey (Ext. 3473)— Web Content
Grayce Moorehead (Ext. 3554)
— Circulation Assistants (Ext. 3409)
Janet Brookes, Toni Grimley, Jean Kanaczet, Kathy Ryone
Guide to Services: Who to contact
Assistance in developing assignments:
Susan Warthman, (Ext. 3553)
Bibliographic instruction: Reference Librarians (Ext. 3472)
Book orders: Leslie Tracey (Ext. 3473)
Check status of ordered materials: Leslie Tracey (Ext. 3473)
Check to see if materials have been cataloged:
Cynthia Pankiewicz (Ext. 3474)
Interlibrary loan: Reference Librarians (Ext. 3472)
Library policies: Susan Warthman (Ext. 3553)
Order media, periodicals: Susan Warthman (Ext. 3553)
Library-oriented workshops for faculty:
Susan Warthman (Ext. 3553)
Place books on reserve: Circulation Assistants (Ext. 3409)
Reference: Reference Librarians (Ext. 3472)
Renew books: Circulation Assistants (Ext. 3409)
Reserve media programs: Circulation Assistants (Ext. 3409)
Schedule instruction sessions: Reference Librarians (Ext. 3472)
Tours of the Library: Reference Librarians (Ext. 3472)