The Library is a resource for all students on campus, and we appreciate you sharing details about Library and Librarian services in your course syllabi:
The Library aims to support and promote the use of OER materials across all instruction at Shoreline. Open Educational Resources can reduce financial and access barriers for students and provide options for Faculty to use and create customized instructional materials. Take a look at the OER guide for more information. Caitlan Maxwell, the Digital Projects Librarian, is a great resource for information about Open Educational Resources, affordable textbooks, and the Faculty OER Institute at the college.
The Library maintains a Course Reserves collection of high use materials, such as those required by an instructor, that offers free and reliable student access to the resources assigned in their courses. If you would like texts assigned in your course to be available to students throughout the quarter you, may submit items from yours or your department's personal collections using the form provided below. You can designate how long materials will be in the Course Reserves collection and what kind of loan period for students will have for each time they check it out. A standard loan period for Course Reserves materials may be a few hours of in-Library use to ensure that your items are available to as many students as possible. All personal or donated instructional materials are returned to Faculty according to their preferred duration of the temporary loan to Course Reserves.
Additional to temporarily loaned items from the instructors requiring them, the Library may purchase textbooks as available funds allow to support student success and lower barriers to access. Maintaining a textbook collection based on instructor-assigned materials is not sustainable long-term, as required materials change from quarter-to-quarter and new editions are consistently being released, meaning many textbooks become quickly out of date. The Library will buy textbooks for the collection on a case-by-case basis when made possible by budget status and specialized funding. Most textbook purchases will be added to the Reserves collection to maximize student access to high-use materials and these textbooks may also be moved to the Main Collection to reflect changes in usage and need.
The Library offers an Interlibrary loan (ILL) service in order to borrow books and articles that are not available through the Shoreline Community College Library and that may not fit the needs of the Library's permanent collection.
You may use the form below to request a title via ILL. Please allow for a few days before these items might arrive at Shoreline. This service is free.
Consistent with the Library's goals to promote the Shoreline Student Learning Outcome for Information Literacy, please consult the Library's guides and resources for navigating the role of Information Literacy in how students integrate, cite, and attribute evidence and information from other sources in their assignments.
Find the college's plagiarism policy along with these resources and more at the library's page about plagiarism below.
All Faculty have access to The Chronicle of Higher Education through the Library's subscription. This is a useful resource that reports and comments on trends in education, pedagogy, and information.
Your division liaison can provide library instruction, help with accessing or purchasing resources, or support you in creating information literacy content specific to your assignments. You may also consider including the name and contact of your division liaison in your syllabus or other student materials for them to reach out to specifically with reference questions or in order to book reference appointments.
Copyright and open education: Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen, Caitlan Maxwell
