Contents
[hidetoc]Welcome to the UW-Stout University Library. This page will link you to services provided specifically for faculty and staff, as well as basic resources. If you have any questions, please be sure to contact us.
Meet Your Library Staff
- Library Department and Staff Directory
- Set up an office call with a librarian. We provide research consultations in your office upon request.
- Ask a Librarian Use a convenient e-mail message to ask your reference question or schedule a consultation.
Teaching Your Students
- Library Instruction Librarians are available to teach your students how to find the best resources for your assignments. We will work with you to customize the presentation to your class requirements.
- Creating Effective Library Assignments
- Information Literacy Standards
- Distance Learning and Online Services
- Online Classroom and Teaching Professor newsletters. The University has a direct subscription to these titles. Please contact Patricia Aspen(aspenp@uwstout.edu) if you want PDF files mailed directly to you.
- Electronic Course Materials Includes how to make a direct link from a journal article to your course site. The library provides a scanning service to convert print materials to electronic.
- Copyright Information
- Plagiarism
- Print Reserve Materials (Open Reserve)
- Video Booking Request
- Useful Library Links to Incorporate into Your Class Website
- Virtual Library Tour or suggest your students check out the Audio tour from the Circulation desk.
- Subject and Reference Guides (Use this list to choose the most useful guides for your subject specialty)
- Citing Resources Includes sample for MLA, and APA and links to other style manuals
- Evaluating Resources
- Research Tutorial You might wish to link to the specific segments within the tutorial most useful to your class.
- Database Demomonstrations Flash demos to learn generic search strategies and how to use specific indexes and the library catalog. Link to the indiviudual titles most useful for your students.
- Database Instructions (Text only version)
- Ask A Librarian
Doing Your Research
- Stout
Library Catalog
- Patron Information Instructions to view your library record and renew library resources online
- Proxy Patron Authorization Give permission to someone to check out materials for you.
- Indexes and Databases
- Remote Access to Databases Connecting from home.
- Super
Search Simultaneously search in the catalog and your chosen databases.
- SuperSearch FAQ See number 14 for instructions to customize your choice of databases.
- Journals/Mags/News@UW-Stout Periodicals Holdings is an alphabetical list of the full text and library periodicals titles; Includes other links to online journals and newspapers.
- Interlibrary Loan and Universal Borrowing Access to library materials from all UW campuses and beyond.
- UW Libraries. In addition to Universal Borrowing, you may check out materials in person at any UW library, using your Stout ID card.
- Other Libraries' Catalogs
- Menomonie Public Library
- World Cat Select from the list: search an international database of materials in all formats.
- Dissertation Abstracts In First Search
- University of Minnesota Privileges Scroll down to: Unaffiliated Borrowing Options.
- RefWorks A citation management tool.
Keeping Current
- Chronicle of Higher Education You will need a subscription to access articles from this web site. The library will have current issues on 2nd floor in the Periodicals Collection. For free online access to articles older than 30 days, use EbscoHost Academic Index.
- Alert Services Several database vendors provide alert services to search subjects and specific periodical titles on a regular basis.
- New Resources Lists newest books and AV materials added to the University Library collection.
Popular Web Resources
- Books in Print with Reviews
- Amazon
- Electronic Reference Resources Online dictionaries, directories, encyclopedias, etc.
- UW System Budget (Red Books) Salary detail
Services
- Hours
- Circulation How to renew or place holds online, reserve videos, check out equipment, etc.
- Collection
Development (Information Resource Development)
- Policy
- Order Request Form for Recommendations For purchase of library materials to add to the collections
- Instructional Resources Service (Textbooks)
- Photocopying/Printing Departmental Cards
- Other Library Services and Department
Loan Periods for Faculty/Staff
Faculty and staff loan periods at the University Library and every other UW System library are consistently set for the term of semester.
At Stout, this loan period applies to books in the Main Library collection--not to videos (VHS or DVD), Multimedia materials, EMC (K-12), Browsing Area books, or Theses.
Due dates for UW-Stout Main Collection books are :
- December 30 - For books checked out for fall semester
- May 30 - For books checked out for spring semester
- August 30 - For books checked out for summer session
There is an option of two renewals (up to a one year loan). Because Stout has a very high percentage of titles unique to the UW System libraries, items needed by others may be recalled.
Other UW System libraries' specialized collections will also have special, shorter loan periods.
Last Updated: 05/07/2008 and Last Revised: 5/7/2008
Contact Denise Madland for more information or help on this topic.