Services for Faculty

Departmental Liaisons

Each academic department has a librarian liaison assigned to it. The liaison’s role is to connect you and your students to library services, collections, and resources that support academics on campus. Librarians are able to support faculty through research consultations.

List of Departmental Liaisons

Library Classes & Instruction

We offer information literacy instruction for faculty and to students. Librarians can provide training on the use of electronic resources, citation management tools such as RefWorks, and the overall research process which can include developing a research question, locating and evaluating information, drawing conclusions, and presenting findings.

• Schedule a Library Instruction Session.
• Information Literacy Student Outcomes

Recommend Purchases

All members of the Fitchburg State community may recommend materials to be added to the Library's collection. Librarians review requests for books, e-books, journals, research databases, and streaming media and make a determination on whether it should be added to the collection based on a variety of criteria. 

Suggest a Resource

Borrowing

Fitchburg State faculty can check out most library materials for 180 days. Loans may be renewed up to 4 times unless the item is recalled by another patron. Your OneCard serves as your library card. In addition, faculty can request that an item be delivered to their campus office. You can get materials Fitchburg State doesn't own through Interlibrary Loan.

• Interlibrary Loan
• Circulation Guidelines
• Requesting Books for Office Delivery

Course Reserves

The Reserves Collection provides access to materials that are required or recommended for courses offered at Fitchburg State. We offer assistance obtaining access to materials in all formats, including print books, e-books, electronic articles, excerpts scanned from larger works, videos, and more.

• Place items on reserve
• Course Reserve Policies

Open Educational Resources

Librarians can help you explore opportunities to transition a course from a commercial textbook to no cost materials by using Open Educational Resources, freely accessible materials on the web, or library subscribed resources. 

Open Educational Resources Library Guide

Digital newspapers

Faculty can set up an account for digital access to the New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Wall Street Journal.

Instructions for setting up accounts