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Library Services for Faculty

Materials Selection - Selection of materials for the library collection is a partnership between library faculty and teaching faculty. A bibliographer from the library faculty works closely with each department to select materials appropriate to the needs of the students and faculty.

Mediated Searching - Memorial Library offers for faculty mediated searches of the following Dialog databases:

Many of these databases do not appear on the library's website.

Faculty members wishing to have a search conducted must fill out a mediate search request form (http://library.cortland.edu/forms/search_request.asp) which will be sent to the appropriate bibliographer. The bibliographer will consult with the faculty member and the librarian conducting the search. Faculty can expect to receive results from their mediated search requests within ten working days. Search results will be delivered electronically to the faculty member when possible.

Search requests are limited to two per year and fee-based downloads are limited to $60.00. Faculty wishing additional searches and downloads may pay the library for the search.

Reference and Research Assistance - The library offers individualized assistance in finding, using and evaluating information. The reference desk is staffed during main library hours. Academic departments have librarian bibliographers who serve as liaison for research assistance, collection purchases and instruction.

Instruction - The library faculty provides instruction in library and information and computer literacy. An introductory program is offered to students as a component of composition classes. Librarians also teach subject-specific and specialized classes. Faculty may contact the bibliographer assigned to their department. Librarians also teach the basic Information and Computer Literacy courses.

Library Web Page - The library's web page (http://library.cortland.edu), provides web-based access to information about the library's services and collections. The web page provides a gateway to the library's catalog, full and citation databases, journal holdings, video holdings and other information available online.

Training - The library provides a broad program of faculty and staff training in supported software. Workshops ranging from word processing to spreadsheets to web design and web page maintenance. Workshops are offered in the Technology Training Center, a 14-station, hands-on instruction room. Information about training is available on the TTC web page. (http://library.cortland.edu/ftc/training_center)

Interlibrary Loan - Material not held by Cortland can be borrowed by both faculty and students from other libraries through the interlibrary loan section. Allow at least three weeks for this service.

Additional Services:

  1. Personal computers and Macintosh computers are available on the first floor in the PC and Mac labs and in the Late Night Reading Room (LNRR).
  2. There are a limited number of closed research carrels available for students and faculty. They are assigned at the beginning of each semester. Study carrels can be requested via the web or applications are available at the circulation desk.
  3. Use of the Cortland ID card and copy cards reduce cost of copying and eliminate the need of coins for copy machines.
  4. Faculty and staff may use photocopiers and microform copiers at no charge to copy library materials. There is a limit of 25 copies per day.

Loan Policy

Books are loaned for 120 days to faculty and staff and can be renewed once if they are not needed by someone else. All books are subject to immediate recall if needed for course reserve. Reference works and periodicals do no generally circulate. Faculty must present their Cortland ID card at the circulation desk when borrowing materials.

Faculty are not charged overdue fines. However, if an item is lost a replacement fee is charged.

Open Access

Upon presentation of a valid Cortland ID card, Cortland faculty members and students receive full borrowing privileges at nearly every State University of New York campus.

Reserve Section

The reserve unit of the circulation/reserve section in the library is operated as a service for students and faculty. Reserve lists should be submitted to the library at least two weeks before the start of each semester and will be processed in the order received. Faculty may choose to play their materials on either electronic reserve or paper reserve. The following guidelines will help faculty prepare for using the library's reserve unit.

  1. Forms for compiling reserve lists are available at the circulation desk or via the library's website.
  2. Material should be placed on reserve only when they will be required reading for five or more students and be used a minimum of 10 times.
  3. As a result of the Copyright Law revision of 1978, only one copy of a copyrighted article may be placed on reserve unless written permission from the publisher is received by the instructor and filed at reserve. Additional information on the 1978 Copyright Law is available at the reference desk.
  4. Faculty may select a reserve loan period that ranges from two hours up to seven days.
  5. Materials owned personally by faculty may also be put on reserve and will be processed accordingly.
  6. In general, items may only stay on reserve for two consecutive semesters, and must be removed at that time. Items that can remain on reserve for more than two consecutive semesters are: full text articles made available by a link to the library web page; books (either owned by the library or by the instructor); original non-copyrighted material (such as class notes or syllabus written by the instructor); lawfully purchased visual and sound recordings.

Teaching Materials Center

The Teaching Materials Center is a collection of over 38,000 items, including textbooks, childrens' literature collection, educational kits, curriculum guides, audio tapes, video tapes and compact discs which are used in grades K-12. An extensive picture and pamphlet file is available. The TMC makes access to its resources available through the TMC web page.

Production Services

The Production Services Department of the library offers faculty a variety of services in producing classroom materials and other academic presentations. These services include basic photographic services (slide duplication, black and white prints, and digital images). In addition, there is assistance in multimedia production including presentation programs and web page design. In partnership with the library's Instructional Services, workshops are offered in various production software.

Copyright and Fair Use

SUNY Cortland views both liberal and professional education as integral to its mission and believes that all study which teaches students to think prepares them for earning a living as well as living a full life. This commitment to liberal arts, professional studies and teaching includes a commitment to complying with all the laws regarding intellectual property. That commitment also includes the full exercise of the rights accorded to users of copyrighted works under "Fair Use" provision of federal copyright law.

The Policy on Fair Use of Copyrighted Works for Education was approved by the President's Cabinet in May, 1999. Questions, concerns and comments may be directed to Director of Libraries, the contact person for campus copyright concerns and designated agent under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.

Turnitin.com at SUNY Cortland: Instructions for Faculty

Turnitin.com is an online plagiarism detection and prevention tool. SUNY Cortland subscribes to the service and support is provided by Memorial Library. The service can be used to check all the papers and projects of a course or just when plagiarism is suspected. The faculty member creates an account and either uploads the paper or papers or can have the students upload their own work. Turnitin then compares the papers with other papers in their database and other material found on the internet. After making the comparison, the service returns a report to the professor with data about the originality or possible plagiarism of the paper.

To set up an account, the faculty member will need the institution’s sign-on codes. These codes are available at the library reference desk (x2590) and from the library director’s office (x2221). A letter to academic departmental secretaries is sent out at the beginning of each fall semester.

Support for using turnitin is available from Dan Harms (x4042) and Tera Doty-Blance (x4056). Tutorials can be found on iTunesU; after opening up iTunesU@SUNY Cortland, click on Information resources, then Technology Training Center. There you will find Turnitin.com podcast tutorials.

Turnitin is found at http://www.turnitin.com and a quickstart manual is also available.

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