Services for Faculty

Ask Us - reference service for information, research help, answers to questions; by email, chat, telephone, or in person

Book Order Form - form on which to submit orders for books or media publications to the subject librarian for your department.

Borrowing Privileges - information about checking out library materials, loan periods, and renewals.

Connect from Off Campus - how to get all the resources the library has to offer from a computer located off campus.

Course Guides - information on having an online course guide created for your class.

Library Instruction - information on classroom instructional sessions for library resources in areas of interest; in classroom or library instructional labs.

Linking - instructions for faculty on how to link to various library resources in their websites and WebCT pages.

Loan Periods - faculty borrowing privileges for books, journals, media, and other library resources.

Media Booking - to reserve a video or dvd for presentation in a classroom on a specific day or other time period. UMD Faculty may also book videos and dvds from the Learning Resources Center on the Twin Cities campus.

RefWorks Information - bibliographic management tool for organizing and storing references and creating bibliographies and footnotes/intext references. RefWorks Direct. For instructions on using RefWorks, contact your department librarian.

Reserve Processing - information on steps to take in placing items on reserve in the UMD Library; includes online reserves.

Subject Librarians - a list of departments indicating the librarian to contact for research help, library instructions, information on book ordering, and other library information.

Widgets - Code that you can use to install boxes into your Moodle sites and web pages to let students interact with library resources.

Rory Litwin
Last modified October 2009