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Information for Classroom Instructors

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Library Policies for Instructors

Off-Campus Access to Electronic Databases

The library subscribes to a number of electronic databases, including NewsBank, EBSCOhost, Gale, CQ Researcher, Oxford Reference Online, Credo Reference and NetLibrary. You may access these databases from any campus computer. You may also access them off-campus through the proxy server. Simply click on the red Off-Campus Users link next to the title of the database you wish to search. You will be prompted to enter your KCTCS (PeopleSoft) user ID and password. Enter your user ID and password in the appropriate fields. Click on the Login button. You will then see the same database search interface that you would see on campus.

Requesting Materials for Purchase

Please submit lists of needed materials to your division chairs. Please provide as much information as possible, including title, author, publication information and ISBN number. You may also submit catalogs with pages and items marked.

Email Account Required to Use Library Computers

A KCTCS email account is required in order to use the main campus library computers. You will need to enter your email (PeopleSoft) user ID (not the whole email address!) and your email password whenever you wish to log on to one of the library workstations. Your students will also need to set up their email accounts in order to use these workstations. Please let them know as soon as possible. They can set up accounts at any computer with Internet access at the site http://webmail.kctcs.edu. NOTE: Students must know or have their student numbers with them in order to set up their KCTCS email accounts.

Photo IDS Required to Obtain Library Cards

Students, employees and community patrons will be asked for a photo ID when they sign up for a library card.

Check-out Policies

• Instructors may borrow circulating books for a period of 12 weeks. Renewals may be made by phone (706-8812.)
• Instructors may take reference materials out of the library for a period of 3 days - no renewals
• Instructors may take periodicals out of the library for a period of 2 days - no renewals
• Instructors may take videos and DVDs out of the library. Renewals are permitted; however, no renewals will be permitted on recordings that have been requested by another instructor for classroom use. Please bear in mind that certain recordings may be used in the classroom by more than one instructor. You may wish to call the library to reserve a video or DVD for a particular date

Reserves

• Please deliver items to be placed on reserve to the library at least 48 hours prior to the time that you plan to inform your students that the materials are on reserve. If you require an extension to this rule, please contact Laurie MacKellar (x68439) in advance to make the necessary arrangements.
• Please fill out a reserve form for each class for which you wish items to be placed on reserve.
• You may place original materials (library-owned or personal items) on reserve. Copies of audio recordings and photocopied materials are permitted on a limited basis, and only under specific circumstances. If you have questions please contact Laurie MacKellar (x68439) or Ann Thompson (x68444)
• NOTE: Compliance with copyright restrictions will be enforced on all reserve materials.

• All materials will be taken off reserve at the end of each semester. Any materials not picked up by the instructor will be placed in the instructor's mailbox.

One hour library tours are available for all on-campus classes. We introduce students to the library facilities, to library resources, and to our online book catalog, online full-text journal databases, print journal indexes and more.

To request tours, please contact:

• Laurie MacKellar, x68439, laurie.mackellar@kctcs.edu
• Katie Meyer, x68443, cmeyer0015@kctcs.edu

Guidelines

• Class tours only. Students who have missed tours may ask at the circulation desk for times of other scheduled tours. They may also peruse the Virtual Library Tour and the Research Basics site. 
• Schedule daytime tours at least 48 hours in advance.
• We do not schedule more than three tours per day; you are therefore advised to schedule tours as early in the semester as possible.
• Please notify us at least 24 hours in advance for study and research groups.
• If you would like your tour to be geared toward a specific subject, please let us know at least three days prior to the tour.
• Please attend the tour with your students.
• Please schedule your tours as close as possible to the time when you plan to assign research papers.
• Please consider having your students complete library exercises. You may prepare your own, or you may use library assignments prepared by library staff.
• Please ask your students to make other arrangements for child care when they come for library tours.
• Please ask your students to turn off their cell phones. If they need to keep their phones turned on, please ask them to be prepared to step out to the lobby if the phone rings.

• If you wish to have a tour for an evening class, you need to call us to request a tour at least one week in advance.
• You are advised to schedule as early in the semester as possible - there is no guarantee that a particular evening will be available, even with a week's notice.
• Classes meeting at 7:30 pm will be accommodated EXCEPT on holidays when the library is closed.
• Tours must be held on campus.

Library Assignments

Students are more likely to retain what they hear on a library tour if they are asked to complete an assignment requiring them to use library resources. We have a prepared set of exercises that we would be happy to hand out to students upon request. An answer sheet will be supplied to the instructor. If you wish to see samples of other assignments, please contact Laurie MacKellar at extension 68439. We can work with you on preparing assignments.

If you wish to prepare your own assignment, please bear in mind that scavenger hunts often are not the most effective types of assignments. If you still wish to use this type of assignment, please verify that the information is available and provide hints or suggestions as to which resource(s) to use. Please avoid questions which can only be answered using resources the library does not have. Please verify that web resources are still available. Be especially careful with statistical questions; if you wish your students to locate statistical information for a particular year, please make sure that they are, in fact, available.

If you are preparing a reading list for your students, please verify that we have the required materials. We can order materials that we do not presently have. However, this takes some time, so please plan in advance. In addition, please ask your students to limit themselves to one item from the reading list.

Interlibrary Loan

You may request books and other materials not owned by the Elizabethtown Community and Technical College Library through Interlibrary Loan.

• Fill out an Interlibrary Loan form for each item requested. Take it to the library or place it in the Media Center mailbox. Forms are also available at the circulation desk.
• If you are using information obtained from the book catalogs of other libraries, please note whether the item is listed as being on reserve, or shelved in Reference, Audiovisuals, Special Collections, Archives or other special locations. Please note that lending libraries are generally reluctant to send these materials through Interlibrary Loan.
• Generally, the materials will take between 5 and 10 days to arrive. You may contact the library at x68812 to check on the item's loan and arrival status.
• Faculty and students should use the resources available at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College as much as possible. Interlibrary loan requests should be made only when students are unable to obtain the needed resources at the Library. If you require an exception to this rule for your classes, please contact Robin Blair at extension 68445.
• If you would like your students to fill out an interlibrary loan form as a practice exercise, please ask them to put your name and the phrase DO NOT FILL at the top of the form. They may then place the form in the regular box.

Copies

You may make single copies on one of the two photocopiers in the library.

• Ask at the circulation desk for the key.
• Remember to sign your name and state the number of copies on the sheet provided at the circulation desk.
• Please do not make multiple copies for classroom distribution - there are photocopiers in the division offices that are equipped to handle mass copying.

If you would like to see class or program-related Internet sites listed on the library's Internet site, please email the site addresses to Laurie MacKellar.