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Engineering Faculty: Welcome to the Library

Fall 2024 Information for Engineering Faculty

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Library Services, Resources, and News: Fall 2024

I'm Randy Souther, the library's liaison for Engineering.

This page highlights recent news, as well as some of the library's services and resources available to support faculty teaching and research. It will be updated ahead of each semester, and periodically in-between.

News

September 2024

 New Addition: Annual Book of ASTM Standards

We have added the complete 87-volume set: Annual Book of ASTM Standards to our print collections. The set contains more than 12,000 engineering standards. 

 New Addition: Engineering Standards research guide

Step-by-step guide for searching and retrieving standards from the Annual Book of ASTM Standards, as well as standards from other publishers. 


August 2024

 Cancellations and Withdrawals

The library has had to cut more than $50,000 from our materials budget this coming year, and larger cuts are likely next fiscal year. See our Cancellations and Withdrawals page for a full list of cancelled databases and journals.

See Cancellations and Withdrawals

Important cancellations include:

  • Link+ — book borrowing and lending service (books can still be borrowed via our Interlibrary Loan service).
  • ProQuest Ebook Central — more than 200,000 academic ebook titles.
  • Passport GMID — international consumer and industry market research.
  • Credo InfoLit — information literacy tutorials and videos

 New Information Desk in the Library

The library's Reference Desk has been closed, and reference services have been moved and combined with circulation services at the Information Desk at the entrance of the library. Reference librarians will be on-call — just ask at the Information Desk.

Selected Services and Resources

Reminders of key resources ahead of each semester—see more in Faculty Resources:

See Faculty Resources

 


Course Reserves

The library can place both physical and online materials on reserve for your classes. We encourage you to make arrangements prior to the start of each semester or as soon as possible, and email gleesonreserves@usfca.edu with any questions.

Course Reserves Guide


 

Research Guides

We curate research guides for a variety of disciplines, topics, and classes. Please consider including a link to the Engineering guide on your course canvas pages for your students.

Engineering research guide

Book Orders

If you would like us to purchase specific books for the library, please contact me via email with the information: randall.souther@usfca.edu. We're happy to partner with you to build a rich and useful collection.

Selected New Engineering Books

Streaming Videos for Classroom Use

If you’re planning on using streaming videos from the library, we encourage you to make arrangements prior to the start of each semester:

Faculty Video Request Form

Even if you’ve made arrangements for a specific title in the past, please confirm that the license will be active during the semester. Many of our streaming videos are licensed for only a year at a time, and we want to make sure you and your students have access when you need it. License expiration dates, when applicable, are indicated in the “Access Restrictions” note in the catalog record for the video.

You can search our streaming video collection in the library’s catalog. For additional information, please see our Video and Streaming Media for Faculty guide, or contact me for help.


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