Services

Access Library Databases Off-Campus

Current students, staff, and faculty can access library databases, journals, and most e-books by logging in with your Gordon email and password. Go to https://www.gordon.edu/password if you have questions about your password.

Course Reserves

Students request reserve materials from the circulation desk. These materials circulate for limited time periods, with varying fines.

ONLINE JOURNAL ARTICLES AND EBOOKS

You may want to consider using online articles from the library databases or online journal subscriptions, which students can access on or off campus anytime. From the Library home page, choose Databases to search or view the databases. If you have a specific article in mind, use Journal Finder to search for the journal title. You can also put links to these articles into your Canvas Class sites. 

We have more than 230,000 ebooks in different academic subject areas, available to Gordon College users on or off campus anytime. They can be accessed from the NOBLE catalog and from the library website Electronic Resources E-book page. You can also put links to ebooks into your Canvas Class sites.

More information about copyright and linking to Canvas is available in our Teaching & Course Resources.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PUTTING MATERIALS ON RESERVE

• Please complete the Course Reserve form. Be aware that if you leave the page inactive (without submitting) for longer than 1 hour, you will lose the information you have entered.
• If you are going to use chapters from a book for more than one semester, you may want to request the library to purchase multiple copies of the book to put on reserve instead of making photocopies and paying for copyright permission repeatedly. On the Course Reserve Form, select Purchase Materials for Reserve. Purchasing the books may take 1-3 weeks. Please plan accordingly. The library may not purchase more than 5 or 6 copies of a book for reserve. If you need more copies than that, you may want to consider making it a required textbook for the students to purchase.
• Materials are processed in the order in which they are received. It may take 2-5 business days to process the materials. Photocopies of articles or book chapters will take longer if they need copyright permission. To ensure that materials are available for students when needed, please fill in the course reserve form and submit your materials as early as possible.
• As required by copyright law, please write the full citation on all photocopies of book chapters or journal articles.
• For the benefit of your students and to avoid confusion at the circulation desk, reading assignments on syllabi or given in class for reserve materials should follow these guidelines:
  • Use the book title followed by the chapter number or page number.
• After you have submitted your reserve list, please bring any personal reserve materials along with your name and the Course ID to the circulation desk for processing.
• For your convenience, library staff will retrieve library materials for you to put on reserve. However, it is the faculty's responsibility to photocopy materials.
• You can go to the Course Reserve page to see when your reserve materials are ready for students to use. You can search by instructor's name, course name, or course number.

If you have questions about copyright and the reserve process, please contact Alec Li by phone at x4341 or by email.

Request Library Purchases

Our mission is to build a library collection that supports the curriculum and mission of Gordon College. We ask for faculty collaboration in selecting resources that support your courses and students, helping us build a relevant and useful library collection.

General Guidelines for Requesting

• Selections should be for material that supports your curriculum and students

• Requests can include books, ebooks, audiobooks, children's books, DVDs, musical scores, or curriculum materials

• Because of the frequency of updates, we do not purchase textbooks. 

• We do not purchase self-published or AI-generated materials.

Not sure what to select? Think about the following potential needs: 

• Select books in popular research subject areas that students have discussed in past classes.

• If you have students read one chapter from a book, select the book as an ebook or a print book to be put on course reserve.

• Select an audiobook that students can use alongside their print copy for increased accessibility.

How to Request

• Use the Resource Purchase Request Form

• Email acquisitions@gordon.edu with a list that includes at least the title, ISBN, and format (book, ebook, audiobook, DVD)

• If you have 5 or less requests, you can email Amazon links to acquisitions@gordon.edu

Library Instruction

Instruction Videos

Ask a librarian for help producing instruction videos to distribute to your class via Canvas or our Jenks Library YouTube page. This is the next best thing to in-person instruction, and in some ways better, because we can create highly tailored video content your students can access again and again. 

Subject Guides or Course Guides

The library can create a tailored subject guide or course guide for your class or discipline. They contain links and how-to information for the most relevant library resources and search strategies related to your discipline or class.

Chronicle of Higher Education

Subscribing to Chronicle of Higher Education Emails

1. Scroll to the bottom of the CoHE website. 

2. Click on the link for "Get Newsletters."
3. CoHE has a number of different newsletters you can subscribe to. You must create an account with CoHE first before subscribing to newsletters. Please create an account by navigating to the Chronicle using steps 1-6 above. You must be on-campus or logged in or your individual account will not be linked to the Gordon College subscription. 
4. Create an account by clicking the "log in" button in the upper right corner. Follow the steps for creating an account from there.
5. Once your account is created, navigate back to the "Get Notifications" page and click on the "sign up" button next to any newsletter you would like to receive via email. 
6. If you click the link to a premium article while off-campus, the Chronicle will not recognize you and display a screen saying the content is available exclusively to Chronicle subscribers and prompt you to subscribe.   Click on the Log In link in the upper right corner and log in with your individual Chronicle account to access premium content. 
7. Contact the library with any issues or questions.

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