PERRY LIBRARY PROVIDES RESOURCES AND SERVICES FOR FACULTY

Perry Library recently announced its menu of resources and services available to faculty and staff this fall. Among them are:

-- Online Faculty Book Order Request Form - Faculty may use this form to request books to be purchased by the library: http://www.lib.odu.edu/forms/facreqfrm.shtml. For new journal subscription requests, contact Pamela Morgan at pmorgan@odu.edu or 683-4148.

-- Online Publishers Catalogs - To obtain the information needed to place book orders, check out the available catalogs at http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/law/acqs/acqs.html.

-- New Item E-mail Notification Service - This service provides a weekly e-mail of new library materials matched to the personal-interest profile set up by the user. Notification will cover a variety of materials, including books, videos, CDs, LPs, CD-ROMs, online databases and microforms. To start the service, access http://www.lib.odu.edu/forms/newbreq-create.shtml.

-- Periodical Title Database - This database lists more than 24,000 periodical titles that are either owned by the University Libraries or are available electronically. The periodical title database is available at http://libstaff.lib.odu.edu/forms/sql-periodicals/periodicalsearch.shtml.

-- Reserves and E-reserves Service - Reserve materials are provided in print at the Perry Library reserve desk and distance learning sites or via the Web. On-campus faculty are asked to submit a reserve request form and materials to be placed on reserve five days before the date the materials are assigned. Submissions for electronic reserves will be processed as
quickly as possible. For more information contact Marie Howard at mmhoward@odu.edu or 683-4154.