Library Services Available to Linfield Faculty at the Jereld R. Nicholson Library

Access to Linfield Libraries' Resources on the Linfield Libraries Homepage:

How to set up a Linfield CatNet (computer/e-mail) account to get an CatNet ID (login) and password to access our licensed electronic research databases.

You will also need a current Linfield ID card to use at your local libraries. The barcode on your Linfield ID must be in our library circulation system (call 1-800-452-4176 ext 2261 to have the number entered) in order for you to borrow books or other library materials from us and to borrow books through the Orbis Cascade Alliance. If you need an ID card or an updated sticker contact the DCE office at 1-800-452-4176. You can also get these at the Fall Faculty Workshop.

Linfield Libraries Research Tips:

Tips about how to use our resources to find and obtain books, videos, and articles; how to search the Internet; and how to evaluate the resources you found. You will find information here about using Orbis Cascade Alliance Borrowing through the Summit catalog and Interlibrary Loan to obtain items not owned by Linfield or not full text online.

Reference Questions:

If you have reference questions related to your teaching or course content, please contact Carol McCulley.

Library Instruction Sessions:

Information literacy is an important part of a liberal arts education. Students need to learn, not only how to use catalogs, databases, and the Internet to find information, they need to learn how to frame the question, work through the research process, and determine the authority and relevance of the information they find before they write the paper. If you wish to bring your class to The Jereld R. Nicholson Library for library instruction or have instruction integrated into your WebCT class, contact Carol McCulley. Check our Research Tips linked from our homepage to help with searching for, evaluating, and obtaining research materials. Linfield librarians also have Class Research Pages customized for classes we are teaching. Pages for DCE classes are near the end of the page.

Librarians at the community college libraries will often provide library orientation as well. Even a basic tour can often be a most effective means of relieving reentry adults' anxiety about the library, a place where often they have not set foot for a long time. Please contact the librarians well in advance of the class session for this service.

Course Assignments Requiring Library Use:

Please encourage your students to take advantage of Linfield library resources and to contact Carol McCulley with problems and questions. Students may search our catalogs, databases, and web resources on the Linfield Libraries Homepage. Books which we do not own can be ordered through Summit or Interlibrary Loan (ILL). Articles not available online (many of them are not) or not at Linfield's Nicholson Library in McMinnville may be ordered through Interlibrary Loan. Students will need to allow sufficient time for materials to arrive. The average turn around time is one week for an Orbis Cascade Alliance book, two weeks for ILL books, and 3 days to one week for articles. If you would like to have a library instruction session at Linfield or integrated into your WebCT class, contact Carol McCulley.

If your course assignments will involve library use, you may want to notify the librarians at the local community college your students may be using. Students sometimes like to use their local libraries with which they are familiar. Giving the librarians a copy of your specific assignment will help them serve your students better. Refer to the list of library contacts.

Reserve Materials and Copyright:

Nicholson Library offers e-reserves. An electronic copy of a book chapter or article is put under the professor's name and course title from the course reserves link on our Linfield libraries homepage. The reserves are passworded for Linfield students only. Students need a Linfield CatNet ID and password for this. If any faculty member is interested in having e-reserves for a class, please contact Bahram Refaei (brefaei@linfield.edu or 800-452-4176 ext. 2520) and check our reserves link.

Please check our copyright information page for Linfield's policy.

Audio-Visual Support:

Jereld R. Nicholson Library's audio-visual support service is the Educational Media Services (EMS). Our collection of audio-visual material is cataloged in our library catalog, WildCat. Go to the finding videos link to see how to limit your search. In addition, we have current catalogs from other media lenders. If you know the title of the material you want, contact Andy Lockhart, the EMS Director at 1-800-452-4176 ext. 2264 to see if it is available on the desired date. He will arrange for the material to be mailed to you. Please order at least two weeks prior to your intended dated of use.

For other information about EMS Services, go to the EMS link.

To reserve the equipment you need, contact the local Faculty Coordinator in the DCE office at 1-800-452-4176 at least a week prior to the date needed.

Electronic Resources:

Many libraries in Oregon are investing in web-based indexes for their library users. Online indexes such as EBSCOhost are very popular because from a keyword search students can get subject terms and generate a printed bibliography of sources, many with abstracts, and some with the full text of the article. We have EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier which has full text articles from many scholarly journals, as well as popular magazines.

Linfield Libraries Homepage, offers access to monographs and journal articles at the McMinnville and Portland campuses, as well as beyond the walls of the library through the Orbis Cascade Alliance, Interlibrary Loan and some full text databases or full text electronic journals. Contact Carol McCulley or check our tips for further information.

Scholarly vs. Popular Journals:

Ulrich's International Periodical Directory is a good place to check whether or not a journal is scholarly. Do a quick title search and look for the document type. This database is in our alphabetical list on our library homepage. An excellent guide to evaluating journals is Critically Analyzing Information Sources from Cornell.

Plagiarism:

Plagiarism has become more of a problem with the advent of the Internet. Here are some links, Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers. or Plagiarism: State of the Art Detection & Prevention. They include tips to increase awareness, prevention and detection of plagiarized material. A great page for students is Avoiding Plagiarism from Purdue.

Other questions or concerns?

Please don't hesitate to Contact Carol McCulley, Reference and Distance Learning Librarian

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