Gitenstein Library Resources for Faculty

Welcome to TCNJ. Gitenstein Library is here to support your teaching and research. This guide will give a brief overview of the services we offer. To bookmark this page for later, right-click on this link: https://libguides.tcnj.edu/facultyguide

All of our librarians assist faculty, students, and staff through our Ask a Librarian service, through which you can text, chat, call, or visit with the librarian on duty so you can get assistance at the moment you need it. You and your students can go to library.tcnj.edu/ask to learn more or to connect.

Each department on campus has a librarian who specializes in that field, offering instruction sessions and consultations to help faculty and students find what they need to do their best work. Reach out to the subject librarian for your department to collaborate on instruction, find or recommend resources, and get the help you need.

Subject librarians may:

• Provide library instruction tailored to your course
• Collaborate on assignment design
• Meet with small groups of students
• Participate in your Canvas course discussions

• Place print books on reserve at the front desk of the library for students to check out for a limited time period
• We can scan a single book chapter or purchase a multi-user license for an ebook in which you want to assign more than one chapter
• Can also purchase streaming videos or DVDs for class use
• Library reserves are governed by copyright restrictions and cannot be used as a substitute for having your class purchase a required textbook. Limitations on publisher licenses and library policy prevent us from purchasing required textbooks for classes.

Adding articles from our databases to your Canvas course

• Whenever possible add links that will direct students to the article or item in the database
• When browsing our databases, look for permalinks or stable URLs that you can add to Canvas. The permalink or stable URL will have “EZProxy.tcnj.edu” near the beginning of the URL.
• If the database doesn't give you a link with “EzProxy.tcnj” in it, you can try adding http://ezproxy.tcnj.edu/login?url= in front of the link provided (for example, http://ezproxy.tcnj.edu/login?url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/20456921)
• Please contact Ask a Librarian to help you find the link you need.

How to request a hold

Document Delivery

Interlibrary Loan (ILL)

When adding publication information to one's profile in Faculty 180, the library's databases can be a big help. The key is to use the RIS file format that library-licensed databases usually offer. This document outlines step-by-step instructions for the various platforms, but the pattern is simple: 1) Find your publication in a database, 2) Export the citation information as a file in RIS format, 3) Import your RIS-formatted file into Faculty 180.