Your Liaison || Library Tours || Course Reserves || Linking to Articles and Books
RIT Pub Central Bibliography Database || Turnitin.com || Library Resources

Your Liaison

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.
  CLICK HERE TO SCHEDULE LIBRARY INSTRUCTION FOR YOUR CLASSES.
  
• 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).
• Click here to find YOUR librarian.

Library Tours

To schedule a guided building tour for you or your class contact Sue Mee at samwml@rit.edu or 475.2568.

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 Full Text 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.

RIT Pub Central Bibliography Database

Have you published? Add yourself to this great RIT resource! The RIT Pub Central Bibliographic Database was created by RIT Library to provide a central location for the listing of faculty and staff writings. The database will grow as faculty and staff register and input or update their own data.

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. n 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

• Borrowing RIT Library Materials

  All faculty may have up to 100 items checked out at any one time.

  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).

  Click here for Borrowing Policies. Avoid fines, learn more....read our Borrowing Policies.

• Borrowing Books Directly via ConnectNY

  Connect NY is the combined catalog of 7 cooperating academic libraries offering millions of 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 thanks via our interlibrary loan service provided by the Information Delivery Services (IDS) department and requesting is all done online via IDS Express.

• 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. Click HERE to apply online

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