• Create a Library Account (required for many library services including ILLiad interlibrary services, off site access, book renewal).
• Contact your subject specialist librarian and learn more about the Library Liaison program.
• Request a library instruction session for your class.
• Access collections and services from off campus.
• Place materials on reserve for your students.
• Book media items for classroom use.
• Use RefWorks to create a personal web-based database to manage your research citations. 
• Link to electronic Full Text (for use with BeachBoard or your personal web pages).
• Use ILLiad Interlibrary Services to request materials not currently available at CSULB.
• See new titles available at the Library.
• Review the Library Copyright Policy.
• Link to the library's Research Databases.
• Link to the library's catalog (COAST).
• Review Research Guides prepared by librarians for you and your students.
• Use our Research Guide on plagiarism.
• See the Library Tutorial (or point your students to it).
• Use libraries other than CSULB.
• Find out about library services offered to your students.
• Services for persons with disabilities.

See additional information below:

Teaching faculty recommend materials by submitting requests directly to their department's subject specialist librarian.  New materials may be recommended by submitting a Recommend New Items form, though sending them directly to the subject specialist is preferred. 
 

Books normally circulate to faculty for 120 days. Media materials (audiocassettes, compact discs, videos, and DVDs) circulate for 7 days. Faculty loans are subject to recall when there are other requests for the materials.  Check COAST to access My Library Account to determine what materials are checked out to you or to renew any of your materials. 
 

Current, unbound and older, bound periodicals circulate to faculty for 3 days.  Current periodicals check out from Current Periodicals on the Lower Level and bound periodicals from the Circulation Desk, Lobby.
  

All assignments, particularly those given to large or multi-section classes, have a tremendous impact on the collections and services of our library.  Prior to making such assignments, it is recommended that you consider sharing the planned assignment with your subject specialist and scheduling a library instruction session geared to the specific needs of your course, and putting appropriate materials on reserve.
 

• Interlibrary Services/Document Delivery: to your desktop, available through the Library's ILLiad Interlibrary Services. You can request copies of any journal article needed for your research or teaching, whether the Library has the journal title on its shelves, or not. Submit your list of complete bibliographic references (author, title, journal title, volume, issue, pages, and year) to libasap@csulb.edu. In order to use this service, you must login to ILLiad and establish an account. The articles will be copied and sent to you, or, you will be notified of their electronic location. Your requests receive top priority! You will be notified when the material is available, or, you could check "My Library Account" on the COAST to see the status of your request.
• Database Searching:  from your desktop, access over 180 research databases in all subject areas through the Library's Electronic Resources.  Contact your subject librarian for further information.
• Consultations:  with subject specialist librarians.
• The ASAP program is not currently available for teaching assistants.  
   

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