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Welcome Faculty!

The Library offers so many resources and services to our faculty, we need several pages just to show you! Here is a preview of the kinds of information and services you will find described on these pages!

Quick Links: All Request Forms

Course Reserves
Purchase Request Form
If the Library doesn't already own or subscribe to the materials you or your students need, please fill out a Purchase Request form.
Video Request Form
Please use this form to request streaming video titles for your course.
Instruction Request
Fill out this form to request a librarian-led instruction session for your class.
Research consultation appointment
Use this form to request a research consultation appointment. Must be made at least 6 hours in advance, however research help is always available without an appointment at the reference desk or through the Ask a Librarian chat.
Request OER Help
If you are a Kirkwood instructor interested in using OER (Open Educational Resources) in your course, just fill out this form to request support from a librarian.

Course Materials Support & Reserves

Book Scanner

Documents scanned on a copier for posting online often do not meet accessibility standards. The Library provides access to a high quality scanner for faculty and staff use. Instead of taking a picture of a text document, it scans the document and saves the scanned file as machine readable text.

The flatbed "book edge" scanner also makes scanning pages of a book much simpler and with a clearer image.

If you have material to be scanned and posted online (e.g. Talon), stop by the Library and ask about using our scanner. You may also make an appointment with our Digital Services Librarian for a brief demonstration.

Library Course Reserves

Kirkwood Library provides a course reserves service to faculty. Materials are located at the circulation desk. It provides a way for faculty to share items students may need for their course work. Please review the policy, and fill out the form below to place items on reserve for your students, typically for in-library use and a 4-hour time limit.

              Cedar Rapids Campus Library
              Phone: 319-398-5696
              Email: circulation@kirkwood.edu

Materials added to reserve:

Please allow two business days for processing of items submitted for course reserve, before they will be available for student checkout.
The Library does not purchase textbooks to add to reserve for student checkout. Any copies of textbooks must be provided by the instructor.
The Library can add almost any kind of physical materials to course reserves. Examples include: books, journals, photocopied articles, special technology or equipment (such as digital cameras or a rock collection), and books already owned by the Library. Putting a Library book on reserve limits students to 4 hour checkout rather than the usual semester-long checkout.
The Library cannot place interlibrary loan materials on reserve.

Checkout periods for course reserves

Most reserve materials may be checked out for up to four hours, and must be used in the Library. If you would like a longer checkout period, please describe in the form.

Course Reserves Search
Search for existing course reserve texts at the library by course name or by the name of the instructor who brought the book.
Library Reserve Materials Submission Form
Form for use by faculty to submit descriptions of items for reserve.

Recording Studio

The Library has a "One Button" recording studio on the 2nd floor, Room 251. The room has the necessary technology already installed to make recording a video fairly simple. Faculty, staff, and students may reserve this room to record videos for coursework. Read all about the room, the equipment installed, and what users need to bring along in order to record a video in our FAQ entry.

Faculty Research Consultation

Faculty, remember that librarian research help is not just for students. Contact the reference desk with your research needs:

E-mail: library@kirkwood.edu
Phone: 319-398-5697
Toll-free 866-452-8504
Chat: "Ask a Librarian" on this page