Getting Started at the Fordham University Libraries: Faculty & Staff

We provide a variety of research support resources and services...

• The Fordham Library Catalog and OneSearch Discovery connect you to the Library’s holdings—24/7 from anywhere!
• Fordham faculty have both on-site and remote access to more than 400 databases as well as a host of e-journals and e-books.
• Fordham’s Digital Repository exposes your research and publications to the Fordham community and academia worldwide.

We can help support your curricula needs...

• Library Instruction sessions introduce library resources to your students and can be customized to your specific curricula needs. Please use the Library Instruction Request Form to request a synchronous group instruction session in person or online, or course specific asynchronous library instructional materials. 
   
• Research Guides provide you and your students with a great starting point for research resources in more than 40 topics and disciplines.
   
• Teaching online can bring additional opportunities and challenges to curriculum planning. The library can support your online courses with pedagogical resources that promote values in online learning environments. 
   

• Reserves materials support your changing curricula needs each semester. Course Reserves (Ares) offers your students a single location to access required readings--articles, individual chapters, links to ebooks, and other class materials--while the Digital Reserves Collection provides your students with a digital copy of the required texts for your courses (if they are not already available as ebooks). Faculty submissions for Reserve book requests can be made through the online Reserve Book Request Form.

Have a question about copyright? Our Copyright Resources Guide offers information regarding the basics of copyright and more.

Subject Liaisons can guide you to the person, department, or resources you need for your research and teaching. Which librarian is your subject liaison? Check here or email library@fordham.edu.

Standard faculty and administrator borrowing privileges include:

• An academic year loan period for full-time faculty and a teaching semester loan period for adjuncts,
• Placing Holds online through the Catalog for circulating items at any campus library,
• And a Document Delivery service to receive PDFs of articles-in-print or small selections from books-in-print at Fordham.
• In addition, faculty spouse library accounts are available!

Are you a support staff member? Enjoy 28-day loan periods as well as the other services above!

Learn more about granting borrowing privileges on your account to your Graduate Assistant or other authorized user.

Self-check kiosks are available for your convenience whenever the Libraries are open!

• Quinn Library Kiosks: In the First Floor Learning Commons
• Walsh Library Kiosks: Near the Circulation & Reserves Desk (First Floor Atrium) & on the Third Floor (across from elevators)
  
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Cannot find items you need for your research?

• Materials not owned by Fordham can be requested through Interlibrary Loan.
• Consortia privileges provide you with additional access to other research collections* beyond Fordham’s holdings.
   

  *Check with the library you intend to visit to be sure that in-person access is available at this time. 

Have a recommendation for something we should own in the collection? Suggest an order online!

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