Faculty Guide to Library Services
Faculty
Series #1
Introduction |
Resources | Books
| Online Catalog | Circulation
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Reference | Periodicals
| Online Resources | Reserve
Materials |
Media | Interlibrary
Loan |
Recommendations for Purchases |
Booklets | Miscellaneous
| Staff |
Guide to Services (Who To Contact) |
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.
If you have any questions about the Library's resources and services, please stop in at the Library or call Extension 3447 (Director), 3472 (Reference) or 3409 (Circulation).
The Library has a collection of over 45,000 book volumes, access to thousands of periodical titles (available in print and/or online), and more than 1300 media programs. The collection contains many technical resources not found in other collections. Most of the resources in the Library are specifically chosen to support the College's curriculum.
Encourage your students to use New England Tech's Library.
- We offer many resources not found elsewhere in the state.
- We offer individual service that is tailored to the programs and assignments taught at New England Tech.
- We have available several series of helpful booklets which include information on materials available in the Library, how to set up a research paper, prepare a bibliography and write a resume and cover letter.
- We offer interlibrary loan for those resources not available in the Library.
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 or by telephone – two additional times unless requested by another patron.
- Periodicals and media circulate to faculty only for a week.
- Student grades and transcripts are withheld and replacement costs are charged if books are not returned.
- The Library's reference collection includes dictionaries, directories, code and standards, manuals, almanacs, and encyclopedias. The reference collection covers technical fields as well as general areas of knowledge.
- There are six computers for research in the Reference Room. 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.
- There are four additional workstations available throughout the Library for quick access to the online catalog.
- 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 Library Director.
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.
- Faculty may borrow periodicals for a one-week time period.
- Periodicals do not circulate to students (there is a copier in the Library for student and faculty use).
- The Periodical Holdings List includes all holdings, years owned, format (paper, electronic or microfilm) and indexes.
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 or dropped off at the Circulation Desk of the Library. (Reserve Request Forms are also available at the Library and on the College's Intranet under the FORMS button).
- 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 books previously placed on reserve are removed unless an instructor has requested that they be placed on permanent reserve.
- Reserves cannot be checked out of the Library.
The Library has about 1400 media volumes comprised of videotapes, audio-cassettes, slides, and filmstrips 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 Media Reservation Form to reserve programs. Reserved programs will be brought to the Circulation Desk for pick up. Because media programs are used for a variety of courses, return programs as soon after the class as possible.
- 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.
- 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 in print form at the Reference Desk or online. The online forms are available electronically in HTML and .pdf formats: (HTML: books and periodicals; .pdf format: books and periodicals) Electronic forms can be filled out and submit automatically (HTML) or via email (.pdf). When using any available format, 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 the New England Library Information Network (NELINET) 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 Library Director.
The Library staff has prepared several series of booklets for the faculty and students of New England Tech which include general information, bibliographies, library 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 are also published on this website.
- Subject Resource Series: Each of these booklets describes resources available for research in the major subject areas that make up the technologies taught at New England Tech.
- Writing Skills Series: This series includes the titles Research Paper Format (APA Style), Resume Preparation Tips, and Preparing a Cover Letter.
- Faculty Series: Faculty Guide to Library Services (this guide) and Library Assignments
- Faculty Development Bibliography Series: Each year, a booklet 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, Sharon Charette (Ext. 3447)
— Catalog Librarian, Cindy Pankiewicz (Ext. 3474)
— Reference Librarians (Ext. 3472)
Alfred Arsenault, Joseph Holland, Grayce Moorehead, Elisa Parello, Jaci Udaloff
— Technical Services Assistant, Leslie Tracey (Ext. 3473)— Web Content, Grayce Moorehead (Ext. 3474)
— Circulation Assistants (Ext. 3409)
Janet Brookes, Toni Grimley, Jean Kanaczet, Kathy Ryone
Guide to Services: Who to contact
Assistance in developing assignments: Sharon Charette (Ext. 3447)
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: Cindy Pankiewicz (Ext. 3473)
Equipment problems: Sharon Charette (Ext. 3447)
Interlibrary loan: Reference Librarians (Ext. 3472)
Library policies: Sharon Charette (Ext. 3447)
Order media, periodicals: Sharon Charette (Ext. 3447)
Library-oriented workshops for faculty: Sharon Charette (Ext. 3447)
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)
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