Course of Study

Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary (Evanston) offers a a three-week series of classes each year that they call "Course of Study." This year they are going to be using our campus for this program, which runs from July 13-31. In addition to knowing that you will see more people around campus for a few weeks, you need to be aware that:

1. Course of Study students and faculty have been entered into our system as "Courtesy Borrowers." They each should have an ID badge that has our barcode on it. They will be able to check out up to 3 of our books (no videos/dvds) at a time. All books will be due no later than July 31, when this program ends. Since this won't match our regular stamp date, you will need to write the due date in the items.

2. We have a large number of items on Reserve for these classes. They have been entered into the sytem in our usual manner, so anyone requesting a Reserve will need to give you either the faculty name or the course number (which will begin with "CS") in order for you to access the appropriate list.

3. Even though the system will only allow you to check three items out to these patrons, WE WILL NOT BE LIMITING THE NUMBER OF RESERVE ITEMS THAT THEY CAN BORROW AT ONE TIME. If you run into a system limit on the computer, simply use the Reserves manual charge sheet kept at the desk to check out the rest of their Reserve items. Please DO NOT do any manual charges for non-Reserve items, however.

4. All of the items on Reserve are owned by Garrett. Therefore, they have LC call numbers instead of Dewey. If you need a quick lesson in reading these numbers/locating the correct items, please see Heidi or me.

5. All items are on Reserve for 2 hour use. The bands say "in building use only." However, their items are not secruity tagged, so we really aren't going to be able to enforce this. As long as the items come back on time, we're not going to make a big issue out of this point.

6. Both the students and the faculty are supposed to have access to the campus network, so they should be able to use computers in the building and access our wireless network. If they have any problems with this, please direct them to ITS.

As always, please let me know if you have any questions/suggestions/concerns.

Documentation and Lexis Nexis Linking

A new section has been added to the ISD Google Site. It's called "Documentation" and can be found in the left-side Navigation menu. The types of things you will find there (and please let me know if you have something that you would like to have added) are documentation related to library procedures.

Also, Jennie was able to determine a way to link directly and persistently to journals and articles in the Lexis Nexis database, something that we had been unable to do in the past. It's slightly complex if you're not familiar with certain aspects of library databases, so we're just telling faculty who wish to link to Lexis Nexis articles to contact the library. Feel free to refer them to Jennie, Emily or myself if you receive a question like this. If you feel like you want to familiarize yourself with the process, however, the step-by-step instructions Jennie created are on the ISD Site under "Documentation." Please let Jennie know if you have questions about the instructions.

~Aimee