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Merner Pfeiffer Library: Faculty Forms & Information

Faculty/Staff Information and Forms

  • Library Instruction Request Form
  • RCLWebA core list of 65,000 titles recommended for academic libraries.  Available from on campus only.
  • Interlibrary Loan Request Form
  • Reserve Request Form
  • Reserves Copyright Guidelines
  • Check your Library Account
  • Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Choice Reviews Online

     

    Lending Policies
     

  • Bring your TWC photo ID to check out materials.

  • All faculty and staff may check out books, periodicals, and audiovisual materials to be due on the last day of spring semester each year, unless otherwise specified.   Return or renew your things at the end of spring semester to avoid suspension of privileges.  If you believe you have lost an item, let us know; we will clear your account and reorder the item. Other users might recall your items; you will then have 7 days to return them. 

  • Dependents have equivalent library privileges.  Spouses and children 14 and over can be issued their own cards upon request.  Children under 14 must have a parent check out their books and assist them when using library computers. 

  • When taking TWC course work, dependents are considered students and the TWC student circulation policies apply.

  • Student lending policies are on the library web page under Library Information.

    Library Instruction

    The library faculty encourages you to schedule library instruction classes, especially when an assignment involves research.  We can tailor sessions to your assignment by outlining appropriate search strategy, demonstrating print and online resources, and explaining interlibrary loan.  Please contact Julie Adams, Associate Director adamsj@twcnet.edu  to schedule Athens campus sessions, and contact Sarah Roy, Public Services Librarian sroy@twcnet.edu to schedule Knoxville campus sessions.  We ask that you allow two weeks’ notice and submit the Library Instruction Request Form available on our website. 

    The College’s Information Literacy Plan ensures that freshmen have library orientation in TWC 101 and in English 102; in addition, most departments have designated an upper level capstone class in which majors learn the subject-specific search techniques and resources appropriate to their disciplines.  Please schedule any other classes as you wish with us.

    If you plan to hold any of your classes in the library without library instruction, please call ahead to schedule so that we may ensure that several classes are not in the library at once.  Leave one or more reference computers available for other library users.

    Reserves

    You may place library books, photocopies, DVDs, videotapes, CDs, and personal copies on physical or electronic reserve for your students’ assignments.  The reserve request form is online or available at the library.  Electronic reserves include scanned articles, scanned chapters, database articles, web sites, song files, and e-books.  Electronic reserves increase availability and avoid fines.  Please allow one week to process, more if copyright permission is required.  Physical reserve loan periods are room use (2 hour), 1 day, 3 days, and 7 days.  You can link library database articles and files to your Lamp/Sakai page as well. 

    Interlibrary Loan

    Faculty, staff and students may request articles and books not found in the Merner Pfeiffer Library through Interlibrary Loan.  Submit your online request at our web site’s “Interlibrary Loan Request” link or via WorldCat.  Articles are usually .10 per page and take from 1 day to a week to receive; books are usually no charge and take from 3 days to a week to receive.  See complete Interlibrary Loan policies on the student “Library Info” page. 

    Departmental Books and Periodicals Budgets

    Each department is allocated a portion of the library’s book and periodicals budgets, and faculty members are encouraged to request materials in their disciplines that students will need for their classes.  The library’s Collection Development Policy describes the materials and levels collected.  Choice Reviews Online is available to faculty in each department for new book selection.  We provide blank book order cards for those titles you find in other sources.  Please include ISBN number and price when available.   

    All book, periodical, and audiovisual requests must be routed through the appropriate department chair for approval.  Department chairs route requests to the library’s associate dean.  A notification of your allocation status is sent periodically.  Faculty is also informed when a requested title has been ordered, when it is cataloged, or if the order has been cancelled.  You are encouraged to submit book requests throughout the year, but the deadline for book orders for the current year is the last Friday in February.  Periodical subscriptions are renewed over the summer, so make addition or deletion suggestions before the end of spring semester.  

    Gifts

    The library accepts gifts of books, periodicals, and audiovisual materials.  The library reserves the right to add only those materials that are needed according to our Collection Development Policy; unneeded materials will be discarded.  Letters of acknowledgement and appreciation will be sent. See the complete Gift Policy at the library.

    April 2010

     

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