Library Services - Quick Overview

• Meet YOUR Librarian

  Each RIT college has a Reference Librarian serving as liaison. The Reference Librarian for your college is your first contact for instruction and research related consultation and assistance. How we can help:

  • Assist faculty with course development and preparation of course assignments requiring library materials and research skills.
  • Provide tailored learning sessions to meet the needs of your classes. We offer course specific learning sessions, library skills classes, demos of online databases, hands-on training and more.
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  • Assist faculty with using the library's array of databases, print resources, services and more.
  • Keep faculty current on new library books, journals, databases and pertinent web-sites and take your suggestions for new library material.
  • Offer informational programs to administrative and faculty groups (such as hands-on presentations or coffee hours).
• Support for Publishing
  
  • The Publishing and Scholarship Support Center (PSSC) provides a range of services for faculty, including editing services and advice and assistance in preparing documents for publication.  The PSSC also publishes the Scholarship@RIT Newsletter that highlights RIT scholarship and teaching.
  • The RIT Pub Central Database was created by RIT Library to provide a central location for the listing of faculty and staff writings.  Have you published? Add yourself to this great RIT resource!
  • RIT's Digital Media Library (DML) is an institutional repository using DSpace software to preserve and maintain RIT's scholarship in perpetuity.  Archive, showcase, and share your scholarship using this venue.
• Course Reserves

  The library's course reserves provide students a central place to access supplemental course materials we can provide your materials to students in two formats: traditional (print) and online (password-protected delivered via the Internet). Contact Infomation Delivery Services at 475-2560 or click here for more information.

• Linking to fulltext Journal Articles and eBook Chapters from Syllabi and Course Pages

  Many databases provide reliable links to online full-text articles and book chapters. This means someone can click on the URL provided on a syllabus, email, webpage, or myCourses, and read the document without having to search the database or e-journal themselves. A stable URL (also called a persistent link or a durable link), allows this direct linking to full-text articles. Click here for linking instructions.

• Plagiarism Detection Service from RIT Library: Turnitin.com

  Our subscription to Turnitin.com determines degrees of originality in student papers then provides you a detailed originality report. RIT Library views this service as a tool to assist professors in deterring and detecting plagiarism and educating students on the proper use of intellectual property. Please contact Marianne Buehler (475-5589) for more information and to receive an account.

Library Resources - Quick Overview

• Research Databases

  There are more than 180 databases licensed by RIT Libraries to support faculty and student research. You will find scholarly information in all disciplines and many resources designed for graduate level research such as Dissertations and Theses and Web of Knowledge. In many cases you will be linked directly to the material in your research area in electronic format. These databases give you access to information that is not available freely on the Internet. Look for the MORE! button to link to even more fulltext.

• Borrowing RIT Library Materials

  There are no limits on the number of items that may be checked out. Full-time faculty - your items are due annually (May graduation day) unless recalled.  Part-time and adjunct faculty - your items are due the last day of each quarter (unless recalled).  The library also has leisure material for your use: best-selling books, videos and DVD's. ALL borrowers pay late recall fines, billed book fees and lost book costs. Learn more about borrowing or find books and other material in the online catalog.

• Borrowing Books Directly via ConnectNY

  Connect NY is the combined catalog of several cooperating academic libraries offering 7+ million volumes. All current faculty may directly borrow books from other Connect NY libraries if RIT Library does not own books or our library's copy is a checked-out. Find out more!

• Information Delivery Services (interlibrary loan)

  If RIT Library doesn't have a book or journal article that you need most likely we can get it for you via our interlibrary loan service provided by the Information Delivery Services (IDS) department. Requesting is all done online via IDS Express.

• Faculty/Staff Campus Delivery

  No time to come to the library to pick up your items?  We can bring them to you with our faculty/staff campus delivery service.  Just Request Delivery and the library will retrieve the items for you, check them out and deliver them to your campus address  This service includes RIT owned items, Connect-NY, and Interlibrary Loan materials.  Course Reserve materials, laptops or other non-circulating items do not apply.

  Delivery of items will occur during business hours: Monday through Friday, 8:30am-4:30pm. Items will not be left in an insecure location such as a hallway, doorknob or unlocked office. A delivery attempt to your office location will occur. If you are not available to accept the delivered items, they will be left with your department office.

• The ACCESS Card

  Another service available to faculty needing extensive use of other participating libraries after RIT Library's resources have been fully utilized and exhausted.

  Cards are issued to a limited number of faculty, graduate students and professional research staff members.

  Those requiring specific titles or those engaged in short term projects are referred to our interlibrary loan service.

  Applications are to be made only after the resources of RIT have been exhausted. Apply online.

  ACCESS is a cooperative effort of area libraries, coordinated by the Rochester Regional Library Council (RRLC).