Library Services - Quick Overview

• Meet YOUR Librarian

  Each RIT college has a Reference Librarian to serve as liaison. The Reference Librarian for your college is your first contact for consultation and assistance related to your research needs. Schedule research help.

• Graduate Support Services for Writing, Theses and Dissertations

  The Publishing and Scholarship Support Center (PSSC) provides writing assistance, copyright consultations, citation assistance and EndNote Web support for graduate students. Many thesis and dissertation services are also available. You can upload your thesis or dissertation to Turnitin to check for plagiarism, have your thesis or dissertation bound and submit an electronic copy to the RIT Digital Media Library and the Proquest/UMI database. Access a complete guide to graduate support services offered by the PSSC.

• Dissertation and Thesis Calculator
  Access an online project management tool specifically designed for graduate students to assist with the thesis or dissertation process. Establish a timeframe for the completion of your thesis or dissertation.
• Special Info for Graduate Assistants
  
  • Checking out books from the RIT Library: to check out books for your professor, make previous arrangements to have authorization to borrow materials under his or her name. This can be accomplished by submitting the Graduate Assistant Borrowing Authorization form or a letter from your professor to the Circulation Desk.
  • Borrowing materials from other libraries: graduate students placing Interlibrary Loan (ILL) requests for faculty through IDS Express should read the Interlibrary Loan Proxy account information.

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.

  Trouble accessing databases? If you have finished your coursework and are working on your thesis or dissertation, you may no longer be reigstered as an RIT student. Check with your department to see if there is an option to register for your thesis or dissertation so you have continued access to research databases.

• Borrowing RIT Library Material

  There are no limits on the number of items that may be checked out. The books from the general collection have a 10 week due date and are renewable if not needed by another. 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.
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• Suggest New Library Material

  The library supports graduate students by purchasing materials targeted toward our expanding graduate programs.  If you would like to suggest new or classic materials the library should purchase, complete this form to send your request to the appropriate librarian.

• Course Reserves

  Designed to provide students a central place to access supplemental course materials from their professors. We provide materials to in two formats as chosen by your professor: traditional (print) and online (password-protected delivered via the Internet) Access Course Reserves.

• Borrowing Books Directly via Connect NY

  Connect NY is a combined catalog of several cooperating academic libraries offering 7+ million volumes. Current RIT students, faculty and staff may borrow materials 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.

• The ACCESS Card
  Another service available to graduate students 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).