Western Libraries provides the following services and resources for faculty and staff:

• Access to the online library catalog
• Remote access to online databases such as ERIC, PsycINFO and many others
• Extensive video collection
• Journals (including e-journals)
• Document delivery services & Interlibrary Loan services
• Research assistance

Western Libraries can send materials you need from the library directly to your home or office. You will need to set up an Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery Account (ILLiad) first.

You can use your Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery account for the services listed below. Just log in to your account and fill out the appropriate form.

• Request a book or video from the Western Libraries collection. The item will be sent to the address you supply when you set up your account.
• Request a copy of a journal article from a journal in the Western Libraries' collection or from another library.
• Request a book from another library (if it is not in the Western Libraries' collection or in the Summit system).

Please note that acquiring material through document delivery or interlibrary loan takes a few days. The Interlibrary Loan department suggests the following time frame:

• For copies of journal articles in the Western Libraries collection (not online): 5-7 working days
• For books from the Western Libraries collection: 5-7 working days
• For books and journal articles not in the Western Libraries collection: 7-10 working days

Please keep this time frame in mind when creating your course syllabus. Students will need adequate time to receive materials from the collection.

You are more than welcome to add the link to the Library Services for Extended Education & Summer Programs web site to your Blackboard or course syllabus.

The Librarian for Extended Education & Summer Programs can assist you in creating a course web site that will help your students locate research materials in Western Libraries.

When creating your course syllabus, please allow enough time in your syllabus for students to acquire the necessary materials.

• For copies of journal articles in the Western Libraries collection (not online): 5-7 working days
• For books from the Western Libraries collection: 5-7 working days
• For books and journal articles not in the Western Libraries collection: 7-10 working days

Please keep this time frame in mind when creating your course syllabus. Students will need adequate time to receive materials from the collection.

The links below will help you find out more information about what you can and cannot put on your Blackboard and how to get copyright permission. For options on making materials available to students online, please see E-reserves and Linking to articles below.

• Guidelines for use of copyrighted materials for instruction
  

  Guidelines provided by the WWU Copyright Office regarding the use of copyrighted materials for instruction. For more information or for assistance acquiring permission to use copyrighted materials, please contact

  
  Copyright/Class Manual Services: Monica Aebly, Wilson Library 562, MS 9058, x7435, monica.aebly@wwu.edu
  

Western Libraries can place library owned materials such as journal articles, short book chapters or your own materials (such as lecture notes) on e-reserve for you. If the material is in paper format, the Circulation department will scan the materials for you.

• Request an e-reserves course or place materials on e-reserve.
• Guidelines for placing materials on e-reserve
• Link your e-reserve course to your Blackboard

If the article you want to place on e-reserve is available full-text online from one of the Western Libraries' databases, you may create a direct link to the article in Blackboard. Please see Linking to articles in full-text databases below.

• Accessing materials on E-reserve

• Linking to your e-reserve materials through Blackboard

All Western faculty and students are entitled to access the Western Libraries' resources. This includes access to our online databases such as ERIC, PsycINFO, Environmental Universe, etc. Students and faculty can borrow materials and request copies of journal articles from Western Libraries. Please see Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery services above for more information.

The Librarian for Extended Education and Summer Programs is available to come to your class to introduce the students to library services and resources or to provide more in-depth instruction on the research process, specific databases or web searching.

To request an instruction session, please contact Leza Madsen at (360) 650-7583.

In addition to e-reserves, if the article you want to share with your class is available full-text online from one of the many databases available through Western Libraries, you can create a direct link to the article. You can put this link into your Blackboard to allow your students direct access.

• Creating links to online articles
  

  These directions explain the process of creating a direct link to an online article available through Western Libraries.

As of February 2006, there are new procedures in place for ordering research materials that are to be housed at the various sites where Western offers extended education courses. Please read these procedures carefully. If you have questions, please contact your department chair or the librarian for Extended Education and Summer Programs.

• Book ordering procedure (.pdf)
• Acquisitions Guidelines (.pdf)
• Form for requesting materials (All requests must be approved by the department chair)

Please see the EESP Cataloging FAQ on how the items are purchased and added to the library catalog.

Western Libraries' has an extensive video collection. You can search for videos in the library catalog.

Videos can be borrowed for 7 days. If you plan to show a video in class, please contact the Media Desk at (360) 650-4767 to reserve the video as soon as possible. Videos are reserved on a first come first served basis so please book your videos as early as possible, preferably before the beginning of the quarter.

• Frequently Asked Questions - Faculty & Staff (EESP)

• Resources @ my site

• Guides & Tutorials (EESP)