Faculty

Borrowing Privileges (for You, Your Research Assistant, and Your Family)

You

To view what your may check out and for how long, please view the Services page. New and Visiting Faculty must visit Magill Library front desk in person to activate their library account.


Your Research Assistant

Faculty may request proxy borrowing privileges for their student research assistants. Proxy privileges allow a student to borrow materials in a faculty member's name with the faculty member's borrowing privileges. The faculty member will be responsible for all materials thus borrowed; the faculty member should ensure that the research assistant is using the privilege solely to obtain materials needed by the faculty member or required by the research assistant's assigned project.

Click here to apply for these privileges.

You will receive an email notifying you that the proxy card is ready for pickup at the library. If you do not receive notification within 48 hours, please email hU+ZVc'XfB[H^={531!M]#[Q5jDIGCAH5A7E*nt@qdC.


Your Family

Your partner and children may have courtesy borrowing privileges at Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore libraries. To apply, please visit the Magill Library front desk with appropriate ID.

Subject Librarian Support

Subject librarians are happy to assist you in any way possible, from creating resource guides for your course to visiting your class.

In support of the faculty, librarians teach students research skills and strategies, including the very critical work of finding and interrogating texts, in both print and digital formats. Librarians also facilitate rich, complex, dynamic, and dialectic engagement with these texts. At all academic levels, librarians foster information literacy, understanding, critical reflection, knowledge production, and scholarship with classes, while also providing intensive, one-on-one support of students throughout their college career and culminating in their senior capstone projects.

Librarians provide a scaffolding of instruction that takes students from the basics of library catalogs and database searching, through an informed use of both print and digital sources, to an insider view of their chosen discipline's literature. Students at each level are encouraged to develop the evaluative and critical skills that will lead them to more complex projects. Librarians help students learn to contextualize ideas, whether on the screen or in print, and to see themselves as active participants in a purposeful conversation.

Librarians work with faculty to provide instruction tailored to the needs of a particular class in terms of its subject matter. They prepare web pages of relevant resources, so that students can become familiar with the key tools they need for research (see the Tri-College list of guides for current courses). In their discussions with classes, librarians bring in examples of content and issues that relate to course readings and to individual student research topics. They also explain strategies for navigating library systems, scholarly literatures, and the hybrid world of digital and print resources.

The Library's instruction format is very flexible. It can be used in the classroom, in the library, or in a workshop outside of class hours. Students also work individually with librarians on approaches to and resources for a research question. Many students, particularly senior thesis writers, remain in contact with their librarians throughout their projects. Content for instruction can focus on a class research paper, on particular databases, on resources for a subject area, or whatever will be most useful to students.

To find out more, please contact your subject librarian:

Jeremiah Mercurio
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(610) 896-2976
Diana Franzusoff Peterson
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(610) 896-1284
Margaret Schaus
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(610) 896-1166
Mike Zarafonetis
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(610) 896-4965

Course Reserves

Electronic Reserves

To see what is on electronic reserves for a particular course, please log in to Moodle.

To add materials to electronic reserves, please contact Theresa Donahue (Magill Library), Dora Wong (White Science Library & Astronomy Library), Adam Crandell (Union Music Library), or your administrative assistant, as appropriate.


Physical Reserves

To see what is on physical reserves for a particular course, search by either professor last name or course number/name:

To add materials to physical reserves, please fill out the form below or visit any library front desk.

Overnight Check-Out Allowed? (If yes, students will be allowed to take out materials one hour before closing and are to return materials within one hour of opening the next day) *









(If more materials are needed, submit this form then continue with a new one.)

Streaming Media for Your Course


The Libraries will make streaming versions of media available in Moodle course sites. We will stream media in keeping with the TEACH Act, the College's Copyright policy, and available library resources. This means that:

  • We will require a copy of the final course syllabus, on which the title of the work must appear.
  • Works to be streamed must be owned by the Libraries. We will attempt to purchase copies of media for our collection when possible.
  • We will not prepare for streaming third-party copies, recordings or transfers, including rentals or personal recordings of broadcasted material.

Audio

In order to request streaming audio for a course, please send a list of required recordings and your course syllabus at least 2 weeks before the semester (or date needed for streaming) to Adam Crandell. Once the streaming audio is ready, it will be linked in your Moodle course.


Video

In order to request streaming video for a course, please fill out this form for each film and send your course syllabus to Laurie Allen. Once the streaming video is ready, it will be linked in your Moodle course.

Because many films are only available for temporary streaming rights at a cost of $125 per course, we ask that you indicate whether you would like the Libraries to purchase the streaming rights at that price. For those films not available for lease, we will attempt to obtain permission from the rights holder of the work.

Once you have submitted your request, you will recieve an email with further details on how the streaming video process works. If you would like to schedule a film screening venue for your class, please view the Hires and Gummere Morley rooms on the Places page.

Faculty Bibliography

The Faculty Bibliography is a comprehensive and authoritative archive of citations to Haverford College faculty publications. This repository contains over 3,000 records dating back to 1986.

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Faculty wishing to submit citations for inclusion in the database should contact Norm Medeiros.

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