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
