Information for Faculty & Staff
All college employees are welcome to use the library. Your Reed ID is your library card, and you can use it to check out materials from the Reed Library as well as request items from Summit.
Books checked out to Reed faculty and staff are due on July 1; IMC materials may be borrowed for seven days at a time. Summit borrowing periods are the same for all users.
Ordering Materials for the Library
All faculty members have the authority to select materials to be added to the library's collections. Faculty members normally forward their orders to the library's acquisitions department. [read less]
Requests can be forwarded by using the book order form available on the library web pages or on order cards that are available in the library or from departmental secretaries. If a faculty member is ordering extensively from a catalog, the catalog, with selections marked, may be forwarded to the library.
When the library receives the order, a staff member performs a number of routine operations. These routines include the elimination of duplicate orders, verification of bibliographic information, and the placement of orders with vendors who have established discounts with the library. During this stage, if a title is found to be owned or on order, the faculty member is notified.
Under normal circumstances the library will generate purchase orders for material to be added to the library collection. However, exceptional circumstances may require a faculty member to purchase material for the library without having submitted an order to the library. In such cases, the faculty member should make every effort to determine that such a purchase does not inadvertently duplicate library holdings.
In order to be reimbursed for these direct purchases, the faculty member must submit to the library the material purchased and a receipt from the selling agent that lists each item purchased, the price paid for each item, and the total price paid for all items. Reimbursement can be made only if the library has in hand both the material purchased and the receipts for that material. Reimbursement may not be made for purchases that duplicate library holdings.
When the library receives the order, a staff member performs a number of routine operations. These routines include the elimination of duplicate orders, verification of bibliographic information, and the placement of orders with vendors who have established discounts with the library. During this stage, if a title is found to be owned or on order, the faculty member is notified.
Under normal circumstances the library will generate purchase orders for material to be added to the library collection. However, exceptional circumstances may require a faculty member to purchase material for the library without having submitted an order to the library. In such cases, the faculty member should make every effort to determine that such a purchase does not inadvertently duplicate library holdings.
In order to be reimbursed for these direct purchases, the faculty member must submit to the library the material purchased and a receipt from the selling agent that lists each item purchased, the price paid for each item, and the total price paid for all items. Reimbursement can be made only if the library has in hand both the material purchased and the receipts for that material. Reimbursement may not be made for purchases that duplicate library holdings.
- Online Forms for Faculty:
- Staff are also welcome to suggest materials for the library collection.
Using Reserves
- Copyright basics for reserves
- How to put material on reserve
- Download the reserve list form (Microsoft Word document)
Other Services
Information about audio-visual services
Information about library instruction
New Materials
A list of books and other materials recently added to the library collections. Many will be available from the New Books shelf by the reference desk.
New periodicals are listed each semester in Library News.
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