You can easily access the online library catalog, which contains records for items at Illinois from your home or office. By placing an online request, you can have books mailed directly to your office. Books can be checked out for sixteen weeks and renewed online or by telephone at 217-333-8400. The library has developed online tutorials to help you find materials.
You can also easily access online materials from home, including your favorite professional journals. By entering the proxy server through the ORR, you will be recognized as affiliated with the University. Many databases now provide full-text materials, and there are instructions available on how to find a specific article.
Can't find it on campus or in I-Share Online? A world of other opportunities exists through Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery. Online forms are provided to request research materials that are not available through I-Share Online. Instructions are available on how to locate materials not available at Illinois.
Tired of going from place to place to photocopy materials? Try the low-cost, on-campus Illinois Doc Express Service. The Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery department provides a convenient fee-based photocopy service at $3.00 per article for journal articles located on the University of Illinois campus. Documents are supplied within 48 hours of request, and payment is taken through a departmental account or credit card. Don't forget that a large body of materials is also available online in full-text.
Located on the second floor of the Main Library, the Reference, Research and Government Information Services Desk (217-333-2290) provides directional assistance, gives information and instruction on electronic resources, and answers quick reference questions. Reference librarians are available at the Information Desk and the departmental libraries to provide research assistance and help you navigate the Library's electronic resources and the Internet. You also can tap into information and reference services through email or live text chat through our Ask a Librarian service.
Many departmental libraries maintain reserve collections for their patrons. Please contact the
staff at the
departmental library where you wish your materials to reside to
place print materials on reserve.
All electronic reserves are processed by the Information Processing & Management unit of
the University Library. Additional information for faculty/instructors can be found online in our
E-Reserve
FAQ. Forms and procedures for placing materials on reserve are
available.
You can renew online through MyAccount, through the Library Telephone Center at 217-333-8400, or in person at any circulation desk.
To obtain authorization, the faculty member and graduate student must complete and sign a "Proxy Form" available in the Main Circulation Desk, 2nd floor, Main Library. The application form requires both the faculty or graduate student's and proxy's identification numbers and signatures. Check out the FAQ for questions about proxy authorization.
Illinois undergraduate students should request a Bookstacks pass at the Main Circulation Desk, 2nd floor, Main Library.
While borrowers cannot initiate recalls online, they may request to have an item recalled from another borrower by inquiring at any library public service point or by calling the Library Telephone Center at 217-333-8400. Library staff can only recall a University of Illinois item from another borrower if there are no other available copies anywhere in the statewide online catalog. Items owned by other I-Share Libraries cannot be recalled without prior permission of the owning library.
We are here to help you teach! Request assistance in designing and testing library assignments, using library resources in the classroom, and creating class-related bibliographies. You can schedule instructional sessions that are designed specifically for your class, covering areas such as library research strategies, critical thinking skills, and information literacy. Contact your departmental library for details on what instructional services they provide or contact Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction.
Requesting library sessions for your class, what library instruction can do for your class, putting materials on reserve, detecting and preventing plagiarism in the classroom and strategies for creating effective library assignments.
Librarians have many tools, tips, and strategies to assist you and your students including collaboration suggestions, digital repositories, learning object creation tools, linking to library resources, pedagogy and design considerations for online teaching, quizzes and games in the curriculum, and much more.
How to conduct searches, look up your account information, and more.
Departmental libraries create webpages that provide instructional resources for students and instructors including research guides, subject guides, database guides, and class guides. A subject guide might consist of an annotated bibliography on a particular topic or it might be a detailed list of library resources for a specific topic.
Many librarians create webpages for course-integrated instruction for their students to access as preparation for the instruction session or as a supplement to the in-person instruction. The resources are organized by course name and number.
Research guides on general library resources and tools including biographical resources, book reviews, dissertations, and more.
Find the departmental library that serves your discipline.
Need help finding or downloading statistical and spatial data? Dawn-Owens Nicholson (Data Archivist, ATLAS) and librarians with a wide range of expertise will be available to help you locate relevant data sets in opinion polls, election studies, social surveys, census, education, and health data and prepare them for analysis in SPSS, SAS, STATA and ArcGIS.
Subject specialist librarians are here to help you with your research. There are myriad ways for us to help you including through online chat, email, phone, in-person drop in, and by appointment.
First, read this introductory page describing what current awareness services can do for you! There are two avenues you might want to follow if you are interested in these services. You can contact the departmental library for your subject area to see what is offered.
RefWorks is a personal citation management and formatting software tool. It can help you take the tedium out of reference tracking. Access your personal citation database from anywhere and insert citations directly into Microsoft Word using the Write N Cite feature. For more information on this service brought to you free of charge by the University Library, please visit the online tutorial.
The library has many citation style manuals available online, e.g. Chicago Manual of Style. If you need assistance with citation styles, you can contact Ask a Librarian.
Look at the Take Us With You site to learn about library services you can use when you are not on campus.
Library Carrels are available for faculty and students through the Circulation department.
Please contact your departmental library to inquire about the process for requesting purchases of materials including books, journals, magazines, videos, etc.
University of Illinois faculty often donate personal collections to the University Library.
The library has created this guide to common copyright issues. If you have any further questions, please contact our Ask a Librarian service.
Provides information about managing your intellectual property including details about the cost of journals, academic promotion issues, new publishing models, as well as recommendations for what you can do.
Outline of copyright law in the United States.
The University of Illinois' policies on copyright.
A library guide that culminates policies and procedures at University of Illinois for maintaining and upholding academic integrity in teaching and research. Also provides a definition of plagiarism and tutorials for students and instructors on what to do about plagiarism.
The Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS) is a digital repository that serves as a permanent and secure online home for work produced by University of Illinois faculty and scholars. You can make your work publicly available; look into depositing your work.
Forms and information from the Institutional Review Board for the protection of human subjects.
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