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Library Services
Library ServicesThe Regents Center Libraryexternal link provides 24 hour, seven days a week online access to thousands of journal articles, in addition to many other helpful services in order to make your teaching experiences positive and productive. We also offer friendly, professional service in person, by email or on the telephone.
Copyright
Regulations regarding the use of copyrighted materials in the classroom.

Current Awareness Service
Would you like an easy way to keep up with what's being published in your field? Sign up for IngentaConnect Search Alerts, KU's current awareness service, which is free to KU faculty, staff and graduate students.

You can choose up to 50 journal titles and each time one is published you will receive a table of contents by email. You can also save up to 25 subject/topic searches and each week you will receive an email with citations to articles published on your topic in any of Ingenta's 28,000 journal titles.

Go to www.lib.ku.edu/retrievalservices/reveal.shtmlexternal link for a complete description and instructions. It's easy and it will save you time. Sign up today!

Electronic Reserves
To place items on electronic reserve…
When an instructor requests it, the Regents Center Library will place items on reserve to insure they are more accessible to students who need to use them for a class. Following Fair Use Guidelines, the libraries will be making most items available digitally instead of in print format. Electronic Reserves or E-reserves will allow your students to access course reserve material at any time from locations on or off campus. For items that do not convert well into digital format (entire books, media or physical objects), the library will store them behind the circulation desk and check them out for a period of time chosen by the instructor.

To submit readings for reserve, complete a Reserve Request Form located onlineexternal link or at the Regents Center Library. For some materials, it may take the KU Libraries up to six weeks to receive permission to post them. In order to have the readings available to students on the first day of class, please provide the Reserve Request Form and the readings at least six weeks prior to the start of the semester.

Because of the unique nature of electronic reserves:

  • You must submit a syllabus or reading list containing full bibliographic information for all reserve items.
  • Photocopies should be clean, legible and one-sided.
  
Instructional Assistance and Services
Our subject specialists can assist you in planning your library and Internet-based research assignments to make them more effective learning tools for the students. If you would like to take advantage of this consulting service, please call Lyn Wolz (M-F, 8-5) at (913) 897-8572 or Lissa Lord (M-F, 3-8) at (913) 897-8556.

Our library staff can also conduct short library tours, course-related lecture/demonstrations in the classroom or hands-on sessions in the computer labs. We have found that the ideal learning structure is for us to provide a one hour in-class demonstration, followed by a one or two hour hands-on practice session in the lab, but we are happy to tailor our sessions to meet your requirements. To schedule library and database presentations for your classes call Lyn Wolz, library director, at (913) 897-8572 to leave a message or call (913) 897-8570 to talk to someone at the desk.



Reference Services
To access our reference services on the Edwards Campus, please come in to the library or call us at (913) 897-8570 from the Kansas City metro area or 864-8570 from Lawrence. You can also email questions to us at this address: rclcal@ku.edu

If you need in-depth or specialized assistance, you can make an appointment with one of our reference librarians for an individual consultation at a time that's convenient for you. If the reference librarians at the Regents Center Library are not able to give you sufficient assistance with a particular topic, we will be happy to connect you with a subject specialist.  

Request Materials
Items from Lawrence and other libraries arrive here every weekday - just request and pick up.

Online and On-Site Resources
The "virtual" resources we have available at the Regents Center Library are identical to those available online through the KU Libraries' Web page in Lawrence, so it is easiest to start all of your searching from the KU Libraries’ homepageexternal link . Almost all of these electronic resources are available from your home or office computer as well. Access is also available from the computers in both the library area and the computer labs. Various spreadsheet, statistical, presentation and word processing software is also available on all the library and lab computers.

In addition to the millions of journal and newspaper articles online 24/7, the physical resources available here on the Edwards Campus include more than 60 current journal subscriptions, back issues of journals both in paper and on microfiche/film and a substantial collection of reference books that support our academic programs.
The books that are kept in our library can be found by looking in the KU Online Catalog.