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Faculty Information Sheet
Contact Information
Lynne Brody, Dean of Library Services: 512-863-1214
Reference Desk: 512-863-1549
Circulation Desk: 512-863-1563
Periodicals Desk: 512-863-1564
Home Page: www.southwestern.edu/library
Library Hours
Monday – Thursday: 8 AM – Midnight (Reference desk closes at 10 PM)
Friday: 8 AM – 8 PM (Reference desk closes at 5 PM)
Saturday: 10 AM – 6 PM
Sunday: 11 AM – Midnight
These hours apply while classes are in session during the Fall and Spring semesters. The library is closed for certain holidays and has different hours during intercessions, finals week and summer. During these periods please check the library’s homepage, or call the Circulation Desk for scheduled hours, x1563.
CIRCULATION SERVICES
- Circulation Services is located on the first floor near the entrance to the library. In order to check out library materials, students, faculty and staff must present a Southwestern University I.D.
- There is no limit to the number of items faculty can check out.
- Faculty can borrow most items within the circulating collection for either a semester or an academic year. More detailed information about loan periods is available at the Circulation website.
- Although faculty are not charged fines or for late items, replacement charges will be assessed for lost items. Upon return of the items the charges will be forgiven.
- Material for which high demand is anticipated may be placed on reserve. The library provides both traditional reserve (for print and media items), as well as E-reserve services. Two-hour, four-hour, overnight, and 1 day items are shelved in the reserve area located behind the Circulation Services desk. Reserve Request forms are available at the Circulation Services desk or at the library homepage.
- Please call Carol Fonken, Head of Circulation Services, at 512-863-1550 with questions.
- Website: www.southwestern.edu/library/circ.html
REFERENCE SERVICES
- Librarians at the Reference Services desk on the library's first floor are available to answer questions and assist with your research.
- Library reference service includes, phone, e-mail, or Ask a Librarian service.
- Research instruction sessions, presented by our librarians, can acquaint students with the specific library resources that are best suited for your course objectives. To request instruction, call x1311 or complete the electronic instruction request form. Please allow two weeks advance notice for scheduling and class preparation.
- The library’s homepage links you to online databases, including many full text journal and newspaper sources, and online reference sources such as encyclopedias, almanacs, and dictionaries.
- Research databases may be located by subject or title. Most database provide help screens for users, and help is also available from your Librarian Liaison or the staff at the Reference Services desk.
- The library's entire collection of research databases, including JSTOR, LexisNexis Academic, and Academic Search Complete, are accessible from mySouthwestern, which provide you with "24/7" access to all our licensed databases.
- Please call Joan Parks, Head of Reference Services, at 512-863-1311 with questions.
- Website: www.southwestern.edu/library/refserv.html
INTERLIBRARY LOAN SERVICES
- Interlibrary Services will attempt to borrow books, journal articles, and other materials not available at the library at the request of a current student, faculty, or staff member. Requests may be placed using the ILLIAD Form accessible from the library’s homepage. These materials are available free of charge.
- Many of the articles are delivered through the Ariel Interlibrary Loan system. You will receive an email noting your journal article is delivered to your personal account in "PDF" format as soon as the library receives it from the lending library.
- Before submitting your request, check the Voyager Catalog to be certain that the item is not owned by the A. Frank Smith Library.
- Requests can be made for journal articles that are not owned by the library and are not available in a full text online database.
- Periodicals provided in electronic format can be identified and accessed through the Online Journals and Newspaper page. Locating an e-journal can be done by searching for a specific journal title or by title browsing.
- Return Interlibrary Loan items (books, videos) to a staff member at the Circulation Services desk where you checked them out. Photocopies are yours to keep and need not be returned.
- Please call Lisa Anderson, Head of Interlibrary Services, at 512-863-1638 with questions.
- Website: www.southwestern.edu/library/ill.html
PERIODICAL SERVICES
- Our most recent issues of periodicals are filed in alphabetical order by title within broad subject areas. Back years of most titles are available in bound, electronic, or microfilm format.
- Periodicals provided in electronic format can be identified and accessed through the Online Journals and Newspaper page. Locating an e-journal can be done by searching for a specific journal title or by title browsing.
- All current full time faculty may check out journals for up to two weeks in their name. Return borrowed items to a staff member at the Periodical Services desk where you checked them out.
- If you want your students to consult a particular issue of a journal, please consider placing it on reserve at the Periodical Services desk to minimize loss and maximize access.
- Two self-service copiers are located within the department to make copies of the periodicals. Photocopies cost 10¢ per page when paying with cash, or when using your Pirate Card. Color copies may be made for 35¢ per page.
- All requests for new journal subscriptions may be sent to the Head of Periodical Services.
- Please call Amy Anderson, Head of Periodical Services, at 512-863-1639 with questions.
AUDIOVISUAL SERVICES
- Audiovisual Services provides diverse media services, high quality presentation equipment, and professional media production assistance to support and enrich the academic and extended activities of the university community.
- Audiovisual Services provides audiovisual equipment for delivery and loan, support of all audiovisual equipment on campus, video production assistance and duplication, event support, Library facility management, and copyright assistance.
- Audiovisual Services is equipped with multiple individual stereo listening stations and video viewing stations as well as the Graphics Lab, which is furnished with equipment and materials for the production of graphic displays.
- To request equipment complete the web form, available on the department website.
- Please call Paul Sicard, Coordinator of Audiovisual Services, at 512-863-1566 with questions.
- Website: www.southwestern.edu/library/av/index.html
COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT AND ACQUISITIONS DEPARTMENT
- The Collection Development and Acquisitions Department coordinates the efforts of the librarian liaisons and the faculty, who work together to build the library's print, media, and electronic collections. All your library purchase requests go to your liaison. Liaisons to each department can also help with your general questions about the library, anytime. A directory of liaisons and their contact information is posted on the department website.
- Staff in this department order and receive print monographs and musical scores; standing orders; media; and most of the electronic resources for the library. Collection evaluations to accompany academic departments' 10-year self-studies are also supported by this department.
- All current members of the SU community may suggest new titles for the collection via an online Acquisition Request Form, which is accessed via the library’s homepage. Items that are on order will appear in the Voyager Catalog; holds can be placed in the system in order to generate notification when a new item is available.
- See the Library’s Collection Development Policy and Acquisitions Procedures for Faculty for more information; both are posted on the department website.
- Please call Dana Hendrix, Head of Collection Development and Acquisition, at 512-863-1241 with questions.
- Website: www.southwestern.edu/library/cdacq.html
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
- Special Collections encourages faculty and students to use rare books, historical records, prints, maps, and other collections to do original research using primary sources.
- Collection strengths include: Texas materials; 17th to 19th century British imprints; fine art books; early magazines; English engravers including William Blake, Hogarth, and Thomas Bewick; Bibles and Methodism; travel and description including maps; science and medicine; southern literature; Civil War; AAmerican literature and the papers of a major US Senator, John Tower.
- The John Tower collection is approximately 800 linear feet of material and covers his Senate activities from 1961-1984 as well as his pre and post senate activities. The collection includes documents, legislative files, correspondence, speeches, campaign items, photographs, and audiovisual materials. Associated collections cover the rise of the Republican Party in the south and the Young Republicans.
- The Special Collections reading room, located on the second floor of the library, provides an elegant and comfortable space to read and study the university’s rare books and other collections. Due to their condition and value, materials do not circulate. Copy service is available.
- Staff is very happy to work with faculty to explore integrating primary source material into their curriculum and encourages class visits to Special Collections.
- Please call Kathryn Stallard, Head of Special Collections, at 512-863-1221 with questions.
- Website: www.southwestern.edu/library/special-collections/special-collections.html
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