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A Guide to Library & Audiovisual Services for Faculty & Staff Alphabetical Index:
Acquisitions Procedures: Faculty Recommendations
Information Literacy – see Research Instruction Internet Evaluation Criteria – see Research Instruction Library
Card / ID
Research Assignments – see Research Instruction
Research
Instruction Request Form
Universal Borrowing -- see Interlibrary Loan Note: The contact name given after each item in this guide indicates the person with primary responsibility for that area. If that staff member is not available, other staff may be able to assist.
Items purchased for the collection are selected to support the research and academic needs of students taking courses at UW-Sheboygan. Student needs are identified through reference questions, course assignments, course descriptions, popular research topics, interlibrary loan requests and conversations with instructors. Items intended primarily for faculty or staff research are seldom purchased, but faculty and staff may use the interlibrary loan service to borrow such materials.
Items for purchase are identified through librarians’ evaluation of
new book reviews and publisher announcements. Faculty recommendations also play
a large role in development of the collection. The procedures below are used to
help elicit faculty input. Faculty are notified when items they recommend are
purchased and are ready for circulation. A complete “recent acquisitions” list
is also prepared and e-mailed to all faculty/staff several times throughout the
year; recent lists are available on the web site at:
http://sheboygan.uwc.edu/library/lists.shtm The Library subscribes to the monthly "CHOICE cards," which contain reviews of newly published books and electronic resources (computer software, web sites) intended for the academic audience. Student assistants sort the cards by subject area and prepare them for distribution to the teaching faculty. Faculty are asked to review the cards and make recommendations regarding which titles would be useful for students. The cards are distributed with specific reviewing instructions attached. CHOICE card reviews represent a very small number of new publications. The librarians also read a number of other review sources, including publisher announcements/advertisements. At times, publisher ads we receive will be routed to you for your recommendation. You are also encouraged to recommend any other materials for acquisition by sending us a note or e-mail with the publication information.
Any questions regarding the acquisitions budget or final purchasing decisions may be directed to Jeff Ellair.
Knowing how to effectively locate, evaluate, organize and use needed
information, also known as information literacy, is an important skill in
today’s society. Teaching students to master these skills is integral to the
University’s mission, and is one of the most important tasks of an academic
library. It is possible to integrate such instruction into every course,
usually through assignments. If you would like assistance building
information literacy skills into your courses, please contact Amy Mussell.
You may also wish to review two related guides recently created by a group of UW
Colleges librarians: Five
Highly Effective First Year Library Assignments and
Critical Evaluation of
Internet Resources.
1. Instructors are required to attend the library session with their students. Your presence sends a strong signal to students that the material covered is important to their success in your course. If for some reason you cannot attend a scheduled library session, Amy will reschedule it for when you can attend with your class. 2. Plan to stay for the entire session. Students tend to behave better when you are present in the room. Your comments and questions during the session are invaluable to tailor the class to suit your students’ information needs. Amy will also often be covering new resources and/or new ways of using existing resources that you have not learned about before. 3. Please send Amy a copy of the relevant research assignment at least seven days before the date of instruction. 4. Please also try to schedule library instruction near the due date of the relevant assignment. For example, if you typically allow four weeks for students to complete a research assignment, schedule library instruction four weeks before the assignment’s due date. If the assignment requires less research, schedule the session closer to the due date. Students tend to pay attention to research instruction if they know they will soon need to use this knowledge.
A hands-on research instruction classroom with 12 computers, seating for 24 students, and an instructor’s station is located in Room 5012 of the Library. When the classroom is not scheduled for research instruction sessions, it may be used by faculty and staff for other courses. Reservations are required; contact Eileen Moenning. To schedule Library Instruction sessions in the lab, contact Amy Mussell. When the room is not in use for instruction, it serves as an additional general access computer lab for students.
For your convenience, you
can view the research instruction classroom schedule online through Outlook’s
Public Folders. In Outlook, click on the plus sign next to Public Folders,
click on the plus sign next to All Public Folders, scroll and click on
the plus sign next to Sheboygan, click on the plus sign next to Room
Schedules, click on the plus sign next to Computer Classrooms, and
click on Library 5012 (LR101A). You can view the schedule but not add to
it. Contact Eileen Moenning for non-Library Instruction scheduling for Room
5012 (LR101A).
Librarians are
available to assist you with your own research. Stop in the library to request
help or contact Amy Mussell to set up an appointment. We cannot do extensive
research for you, but we will assist you as needed in conducting your own
research.
As a UW Colleges
faculty/staff member, you have access to a broad array of online research
databases. Through UW System and UW Colleges purchases, we constantly receive
access to new electronic resources such as full text periodical indexes and
online journals and books. See our web site (http://sheboygan.uwc.edu/library/)
for further information about these resources. In addition to on-campus access,
most of these resources are also available from off-campus via the Colleges
proxy server. Select the resource you wish to use via our web site and when
prompted, enter your campus network username and password (same as you use to
log-on to campus computers or connect to your e-mail).
If you don't know your network
username and password, contact Vicky Spelshaus, network administrator, at
459-6665 or email vicky.spelshaus@uwc.edu.
The Library’s web
site (http://sheboygan.uwc.edu/library/) is intended as a guide
to research and the various research tools available to UW-Sheboygan students,
faculty, and staff. It also provides information about Library services and
policies, links to lists of course reserve and other Library materials, links to
recommended web sites, and contains a guide for citing online resources.
The library
collection has been developed to serve the needs of freshman/sophomore liberal
arts undergraduate students. Current holdings consist of 42,000 book volumes
and 165 periodical titles available in print, supplemented by a significant number
of journal subscriptions available online. There is also an extensive
collection of LP music recordings, and a limited number of audio CDs, DVDs, and
videotapes. All material in the Library can be found by searching the UW
Colleges Library Catalog (http://collib.wisconsin.edu/).
We also maintain listings of our print and online periodical holdings, available
on the web site at:
http://sheboygan.uwc.edu/library/periodicals.shtm
Faculty and staff are granted generous circulation privileges. Books
and journals may be checked-out for four months, though we ask that you return
them sooner when you are finished using them. We may request that you return
material at any time if a student is requesting it for his/her use. Other
materials in the Library collection (audio recordings, videorecordings) may be
checked-out for various loan periods. Materials in the reference collection
typically do not circulate out of the Library, but if you need an item for a
short duration for classroom demonstration or another special need, please ask.
Though a campus ID is not required for you to check-out library materials, using
one may speed the transaction time; you may also wish to have one for other
purposes. IDs can be obtained from the Student Services Office. Without
an ID, simply bring the materials you want to check out to the circulation desk, provide your
name and indicate you are a faculty/staff member (if the attendant doesn't
recognize you).
A campus ID or library card is not required for you to check-out our materials, though one could speed the transaction time. You may also wish to have one for other purposes. IDs can be obtained from the Student Services Office. Without an ID, simply bring the materials you want to check out to the circulation desk, provide your name and indicate you are a faculty/staff member (if the attendant doesn't recognize you). You will be prompted for your ID or barcode number when using interlibrary loan/universal borrowing online services. This is a 10-digit number appearing on the campus ID card. If you don't know your ID number, please contact library staff and we can supply it.
To use licensed research databases from off-campus, you will be prompted to
enter a username and password. This is the same information you use to
log-on to campus computers or connect to e-mail.
If you don't know your network
username and password, contact Vicky Spelshaus, network administrator, at
459-6665 or email
vicky.spelshaus@uwc.edu.
We provide a full complement of interlibrary
loan (ILL) services to faculty, staff, and students which can provide access to
books, journal articles, and other materials not available in our library.
Books and AV materials available at other UW campus libraries can be requested
directly through the library catalog via a procedure known as "universal
borrowing." Other materials are available by initiating a request in the ILLiad system. Please see the instructions and further information about
these services at
http://sheboygan.uwc.edu/library/interlibraryloan.shtm.
As a University of Wisconsin faculty/staff member, you have direct borrowing privileges at the other UW libraries as well. Specific policies and procedures may vary, but each library should allow you to check-out their materials directly when visiting their campus. To be assured of service, obtain a UW Sheboygan ID card from our Student Services Office and take it with you. You are responsible for returning any materials you borrow directly from another campus. We can return items for you via the UW library delivery service, but you are held accountable for the items until their return to the home library, including any fines or fees that may accrue.
You also have access to
other UW library materials, without traveling to other campuses, via
Interlibrary Loan services. See the
information about those services above.
Books, journal articles, tests, other print items, and audiovisual items may be placed on reserve in the library for use by your students. Materials are generally placed on reserve for limited circulation periods so that all students in a course will have ready access to them. To place an item on reserve, bring it to the library, supply the course name and number, and identify the length of circulation period desired. Choices for circulation period are the following: 2-hour use (no overnight), one-day use (item due any time on the day following check-out), three-day, and seven-day use. If you so indicate, we can also explicitly state that 2-hour reserve items are to be used only in the library. Please submit materials for reserve a minimum of 24 hours before students in the class will need them; at the beginning of a semester, at least 2 days lead time is preferable. Material owned by the library (books in the collection, journal issues, etc.) can also be placed on reserve at your request. If you plan to give a course assignment that will cause a number of students to be looking for the same items (e.g. a specific play or essay), please let us know. If we are aware of this and can put these items on reserve, more students can be satisfactorily served rather than a few students checking out all the material for a longer period of time. Some materials are automatically removed from reserve after the semester; others remain on reserve until you request they be removed. Please make your removal requests to library staff so that the appropriate records may be updated; do not remove items yourself.
While we try to prevent
theft and non-return of reserve and all other materials, we cannot guarantee
security. Fines are levied for overdue reserves, replacement charges are levied
for unreturned materials, and holds are placed on students’ records. By placing
a personal item on reserve, you accept the possibility that it could be
checked-out and not returned. The Library is not responsible for
stolen/unreturned items.
Library hours during
the academic year are 8am-9pm Monday-Thursday, 8am-4pm Friday, 5pm-9pm Sunday,
and closed on Saturday. Hours during summer term and
campus breaks are posted ahead of time. Current hours are always posted on the
Library door and on the library hours web page (http://sheboygan.uwc.edu/library/hours.shtm).
Even at times when the Library is closed, staff are sometimes available. Feel
free to call at any time; voice mail is available and
we will return your call as soon as possible.
Library staff also serve as the campus’s "media services" department.
We purchase and oversee most of the campus inventory (other than equipment
purchased by individual academic departments for their exclusive use) of
overhead projectors (the portable units used for transparencies), portable
TV/VCR/DVD player units, and slide projectors. Please contact us with any questions
regarding the use of the equipment, and notify us if something is not working
properly.
1. As soon as you anticipate needing a portable TV/VCR/DVD player, fill-out a reservation sheet (available on the TV/VCR/DVD player carts) and post it on the cart. 2. When you're ready to use the equipment, move it to the room where you need it. If there are no other reservations on the cart that occur before the time you need it, you can move it to your room at any time you wish ahead of time. 3. If there is a sheet on the cart for a specified room and time (that doesn't conflict with yours), please make sure the unit gets back to that room when you're done with it. 4. Do not assume that because there often is a portable set in your classroom it will always be there. Follow the procedures and attach a reservation sheet so that others know when you need it. There is usually a portable TV/VCR/DVD player set in classroom 3107 (MA121) and/or 3109 (MA122). We also try to keep one in at least one of the LR building classrooms -- 5003 (LR107), 5002 (LR108), 5120 (LR217), or 5121 (LR218). Reserving the set closest to your needed location is easiest. If you have difficulty locating a set, contact us. The sets housed in the library can also be borrowed temporarily if other alternatives do not work. To use these TVs/VCRs/DVD players in other buildings (Fine Arts, Phy Ed), either use the self-reservation procedure or contact us. Rooms 3102 (MA114), 7010 (FA112), all of the Main Building 2nd floor classrooms (32xx), and all of the computer classrooms have permanently-installed VCRs, DVD players, and projection units that should be used instead of portable sets (contact Ed Janairo for assistance with these units).
Library staff (pictured left to right) include Jeff Ellair, Karen McArdle, and Amy Mussell, as well as several student assistants. In a library our size, each staff member is somewhat involved in each functional area, but specific responsibilities are as explained below.
Jeff Ellair, Library
Director
Reports to Campus CEO/Dean
Amy Mussell,
Reference & Instruction Librarian
Reports to Library Director
Karen McArdle,
Library Services Assistant
(half-time position) Reports to Library Director |
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