For Faculty Members

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For Faculty Members

Highlighted here are features of the library of particular importance to faculty members. For more detailed information, check the section of the library website that pertains to your specific interests. See below for condensed information about circulation policies, returning library resources, and setting up graduate seminar reserve readings, among other subjects. Follow the links for more details.

Circulation Policies

The Campus Writing Center and Lannan Video collections are the William Van O'Connor Library's two circulating collections. Faculty patrons may sign out books from the General Book Collection in the sign-out binder near the door and return the borrowed items within two weeks. Periodicals may be signed out and taken out for a maximum of two hours. All other use of the library resources must take place within the confines of the library.

Please be sure to sign out all books and journals and cross out the record when you return these materials.

for more information on the library's circulation policies, click here.

Returning Library Resources

When you are done with items you have borrowed from the library, please return them promptly to the library. You may re-shelve such items yourself, place them in the library mailbox in the English Department mailroom, or leave them on the bookshelf next to the graduate seminar readings, located immediately to your left as you enter the library.

Setting Up Graduate Seminar Reserve Readings

* It is the general understanding in the department that graduate students may study their seminar reserve readings in the O'Connor Library or remove the materials briefly to photocopy them. Please inform your students in class if you wish them to abide by a different policy. Library staff members are not responsible for enforcing individual instructors' policies.

* Please label all folders containing reserve materials with your last name, course title, and course number. Photocopied materials left unlabelled and unclaimed will be recycled after the end of the term.

* To assist your students, please leave 2 or 3 photocopies of reserve materials in the folders so that the resources can be shared easily among seminar students needing to study and photocopy them.

* Should you require more space for reserve materials than is available in the reserve reading area, please contact the graduate student librarian to make alternative arrangements. Materials left in other areas may be moved to make way for authorized library projects.

* If you have undergraduate students taking a graduate course with you, please make sure that they have appropriate access to class materials and/or ensure that the English Peer Advisers can provide them with access to the library.

for more information on the Graduate Student Reserve Readings, click here.

Contributions

If you see a gap in our shelves, please consider filling that gap yourself or appealing to someone who can. Book and monetary donations both qualify for tax write-offs, and you'll also earn the unending gratitude of the librarians and the teachers and students who use the library as a resource constantly. If you are moving or cleaning out your personal library, think about donating your books to the library: if by chance they do not work with the library's current collections, we'll see they go to a public community library or a deserving student. For more information, please contact the graduate student librarian or drop a note in the library mailbox in the English Department mailroom.

When donating materials to the library, whether dropping them off at the librarian's desk or putting them in the library mailbox, please be sure to label them clearly as donations and please include your name. We will want to thank you for your generosity and provide you with documentation for a tax write-off; we also want to be sure that the materials are truly donations and not misplaced items!

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