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Services for Faculty and Graduate Assistants

Research

• Find Library Resources by Discipline
• Find Subject Librarians to WMU Departments and Colleges
• Find New Books by Discipline
• Use (External) Refworks Citation Manager. Learn more
• Locate (External) Journals owned by WMU
• Find materials in libraries around the world using (External) WorldCat
• Find materials purchased by the international consortium (External) Center for Research Libraries Catalog
• Retain your author/creator copyrights
• Locate (External) Dissertations and Theses – index from 1860, full text from at least 1997.
• Deposit your work into ScholarWorks at WMU
• Read the (External) Chronicle of Higher Education

Teaching

• Place books, articles, videos, etc. on reserve for students in Course Reserves
• Reserve an Instructional Video
• Create Persistent Links to Resources
• Schedule Research Instruction
• Assign the ResearchPath Tutorial
• Check Copyright and Legal Information Use

Services

• Book Delivery
• Borrowing Books and Other Materials
• Course Reserves
• Digitization Center
• Document Delivery
• Interlibrary Loan
• Mapping Service
• Off Campus Library Services – if teaching in a regional location
• Recommend New Books, Journals, etc.
• Digitization Center
• Renew Books Online – sign in to Library Catalog, Interlibrary Loan or MeLCat

Ask A Librarian

• (External) Live Chat, Email, Phone, In person

Librarian Blogs

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• (External) Natural Sciences Reference
• (External) World of Engineering

Amenities

Faculty Carrels

• Available in Waldo Library
• Sign out and return carrel keys
  at the Patron Services Window
• To reserve contact Regina
  Buckner at (269) 387-5204

Library Drop Boxes

Books and other materials may be returned to Waldo Library or one of the branch libraries on campus or through one of our convenient drop boxes:

• Engineering Campus (Parkview) - Drop box on first floor, near front entrance and Lecture Hall D-115. Pick up Monday - Friday 9:15 a.m.
• College of Health & Human Services Campus - Drop box on first floor near the Learning Resource Center. Pick up Monday - Friday 9:30 a.m.
• Haworth College of Business - Drop box on first floor, by entrance closest to the Fetzer Center. Pick up Monday - Friday 10 a.m.

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