Snell Library Resources Available to Faculty
(http://library.northeastern.edu/gateways/faculty)
Online Support
Collections
- Over 30,000 electronic journals, remotely accessible
- Over 200 research databases, remotely accessible
- A growing body of e-books, over 140,000 remotely accessible
- A large collection of online reference tools, e.g. subject encyclopedias
- An U.S. Government Documents Depository Collection of a few hundred thousand documents, mostly online.
- Digitization projects, e.g. OCA/Internet Archive digitization of selected NU material.
Services
- Online, quick e-mail delivery through interlibrary loan of requested journal articles for which there is not already online access. Articles are sent to you by email in about 1 to 3 days of request.
- Subject librarians to assist faculty and students by telephone or email with library research or class assignment needs.
- Subject tailored library research guides
- Subject librarians are available to help identify sources to add to curricular assignments and consider titles you recommend for the collection
- Reference services (telephone, 24/7 online chat, e-mail, texting)
Onsite Support
Collections
- A large print and media collection of approximately one million volumes
- An U.S. Government Documents Depository Collection of a few hundred thousand documents, mostly online.
- The University Libraries are a member of the Boston Library Consortium, a group of local and regional academic libraries with a collective collection of over 35 million volumes. With a BLC Card, one may borrow directly from member institutions.
- The library does not generally purchase textbooks. However, faculty are invited to place personal copies of textbooks used in courses on reserve for their students to use on-site.
Services
- Library instruction sessions , designed to meet the particular library research needs of your classes
- Quick borrowing service for books not immediately available within the library through interlibrary loan. (Books are generally available within 2-5 days of request, depending on the location of the lending library.)
- A course reserves to place requested print materials for the class to use in house.
- In-person consultations with a library subject specialist by appointment (for faculty or students)
- Research assistance services in person (in addition to remote reference services)
- Digital media support is available to faculty and students in the Library’s Digital Media Commons Studio.
- Subject librarians are available to recommend grant information resources in your field.
- Library data services. Provides assistance with developing data management plans or with finding research data in the sciences or social sciences.
- Institutional Repository. Iris will preserve and promote digital copies of your intellectual output.
Physical Facilities
- Digital Media Commons and Studio. (Digital work environment. Book training sessions with a Digital Media Librarian. Contact Debra Mandel to reserve a space or schedule a training session)
- Classrooms 202 and 203 SL (please contact Tricia Reinhart at x4970 for scheduling).
- NOTE: After the “Summer II” 2013 semester session, these rooms will be moved to the first floor and operated by the University Registrar
- The Library maintains 24/7 hours for the Northeastern University community.
Contact Information:
Northeastern University Libraries
360 Huntington Avenue [#59 on campus map]
Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
(617) 373-2350 or (617) 373-5409 fax