Faculty Services

• The High Library Faculty Guide
• Course Reserves
• Your research
• Suggest an item for purchase
• Browse recent purchases
• Copyright
• Library resources about teaching & learning
• Library instruction
• Your departmental liaison

Course Reserves

• Place library materials, personal copies and/or articles on reserve for student use.
• A time frame for student usage can be specified for each reserve. Example: one hour, three hours, etc. 
• Items currently on reserve can be viewed from the Library Catalog, click on Reserve Desk.
• Copyright restrictions may apply to any photocopied article or item.

Options for placing items on reserve

• Fill out reserve forms which are available at the Circulation Desk. 
• Complete the online reserve form for each item to be placed on reserve.
• Email your reserve request with complete course and citation information to Louise Hyder-Darlington.
• Forms of citation should match those appearing on the course syllabus.

Faculty may request a complete or partial listing of their reserve materials. Email your request to Louise Hyder-Darlington. Please include your name and course number.

EbscoHost, JSTOR and LexisNexis Article Links

Articles that are full-text in EbscoHost,  JSTOR or LEXIS-NEXIS can be retrieved via unique URLs. These URL links can be placed in a syllabus, on Blackboard, or in the library's reserve desk module, so students can easily access the article.

Links from sites other than the reserve desk will only be accessible from within the campus network. To enable off-campus access to these articles, contact Joan Quinn.

To determine the link for an article in Ebscohost, click on the article title.  The article link is identified by the phrase:   Permalink.

To determine the link for an article in JSTOR, find the article.  Click on the article title.  The article link is identified by the phrase: Stable URL. 

To determine the link for an article in LEXIS-NEXIS, display the article; click on the   icon (source information).   Copy the URL that appears in the browser bar.

Your research

The library strives to meet your research needs!

• Borrow materials from High Library.  Check out our loan periods.
• For more materials on your topic, explore WorldCat, a database that contains information on libraries' holdings worldwide.
• If we don't have it, we can probably get it for you via interlibrary loan.
• High Library has reciprocal borrowing agreements with area libraries, such as Penn State, Franklin & Marshall, and Messiah.  To learn more, check out the website of the Associated College Libraries of Pennsylvania (ACLCP).
• High Library also has reciprocal borrowing agreements with members of the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI).  Member institutions include University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers, and West Virginia.

Suggest an item for purchase

Faculty members can request that books, videos, cd's, etc. be added to the collection.  The library collection supports the curriculum of the College; generally, textbooks are not acquired.  Materials that support individual research interests can be obtained through Interlibrary Loan.

For other materials, fill out an order form and forward the form to the department chair for signature. Order forms will then be sent to the library. When the item has been received and is available for use, you will receive an email which lists items purchased by your department.

You can type your requests directly into the High Library Order Form.

Items that require RUSH processing should be identified as such; these items will be made available as quickly as possible. 

Choice Review Online - a database provided by the Association of College and Research Libraries, can be used to find reviews of materials appropriate for college library collections.  Access is limited to one user at a time.

Library instruction

We design class sessions for your students, focusing on resources you want your students to know about.  Why schedule a session?  If you are requiring any kind of research-based project, a library session can point students away from Google and Wikipedia and toward more substantive scholarly sources.

If you've already been working successfully with one of our librarians, feel free to contact him or her directly to schedule a hands-on library session or fill out the online form.

Or, contact me, Elizabeth Young, and together we can determine the best human and physical resources for your needs.