Faculty Services

Please contact your subject specialist with additional questions about access to materials (electronic or paper).

Library Instruction describes various instruction options. See also Guidelines for Effective Library Assignments. Contact your subject specialist or Barbara Jenkins (346-1925, jenkins@uoregon.edu).

Reserves can be established for required course readings and viewings. Two options are available:

• Required readings and videos can placed in a designated area within a library and given shortened loan periods.
• Electronic Reserves (E-Reserves). Course materials placed on the web so students can access them at any time. Image Reserve provides online images for courses in which the study or review of images is required.

For more on the Reserve Service check Course Reserves: Faculty Information

Videos can be checked out by the UO community. To ensure a video will be available on the day you need it for classroom viewing, it is advisable to book the video in advance.

Please refer to Off-Campus Access to Electronic Resources for information regarding access to library catalogs, databases, and other electronic materials from off campus locations.

See the research guides for an introduction to the basic resources in your field.

See Books & more... for information about the UO Library catalog and accessing library catalogs and materials from around the world. UO Faculty members can request that general materials from any of
the UO Libraries be delivered to their Eugene campus departments.

See Articles, Databases, & more... for a listing of available indexes (paper and electronic) and information about our one-search option.

To search the Library's paper and electronic collections for specific articles use FindText. The FindText button will also appear in most databases allowing you to check availability of articles. Faculty can request that electronic copies of articles from UO print journal collection be sent to their desktops via UO faculty or UO Distance Ed students, request this item in the FindText box.

Center for Educational Technologies offers consulting for UO faculty using instructional technology and multimedia. Areas of expertise include:

• Blackboard
• Graphics and digital images
• Digital video and audio
• Scanning
• Instructional design
• Web design and development

Media Services provides one-on-one or group instruction on use of classroom equipment. Campus classroom equipment lists equipment, classroom photographs, layout,and general instructions for campus classrooms.

Media Services handles booking requests for educational technology not available in your classroom.

Faculty carrels are available in the Knight Library. Please inquire about reserving a carrel at the Office of the Librarian, Knight Library [M-F, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm]or phone 346-3056.

Books not held by the UO may be requested through Summit. These books will arrive in 2-4 days.

Requests for journal articles can be made through FindText.

To request journal articles and materials not available through Summit or FindText, please refer to Interlibrary Loan.

Most borrowed materials may be renewed electronically through View Your Patron Record option or by calling 346-3065. For additional information on circulation topics please see Borrowing Materials.

Your faculty ID functions as a copy card using the Campus Cash system. See Library Copiers for information about this service or about charging copies to a budget/departmental number.

Knight library has five classrooms designed as teaching laboratories. Classroom have computers for hands-on instruction and projectors for the instructor's monitor. Descriptions of these rooms and scheduling guidelines are available at Classrooms, Meeting Rooms, and Studios.

The Library Proxy Program allows UO Faculty to designate one person to act as their representative to check out Library materials.

The Library has two Web pages designed to keep you informed of new collections and services.

• Updated weekly, News describes new databases, services, and events. You can also create an RSS feed to receive this information directly.
• New Additions, updated monthly, lists new additions to the library's collections.

The UO Libraries provide several avenues for requesting assistance from a Reference Librarian. You may also contact your subject specialist directly.

The Library offers assistance with EndNote. This software program transfers citations from the UO Library Catalog and commercial databases into user's own database. This software can quickly format citations in a variety of bibliographic styles in a word processing document. Currently, we can assist you with your personal copy of the software (the University does not have campus wide access to the software).

Hours for the UO Libraries vary. Please refer to Hours.

Scholars' Bank is an open access digital archive for University of Oregon research and publications, including preprints, technical reports, working papers, presentations, student terminal projects, data sets, and more.