To request assistance in the production of videos, cd's, presentations and instructional materials, contact Rick Rydz (x56391), or Ray Mizell (x56389).

CIRCULATION: Books circulate to faculty for a period of 90 days. All audiovisual items not
on Reserve circulate for 14 days. Any item may be renewed if a hold has not been placed
on it by another patron. If you have questions about library circulation policies, contact Terry Buckner (x56397).

E-MAIL: All BCTC faculty can get a KCTCS e-mail account. For more information, contact the office manager in your academic department. Your e-mail account usually will be of this format: firstname.lastname@kctcs.edu

CONNECT FROM HOME: Proxy Server Information

DATABASE SEARCHES: Faculty and students have access to article and book databases from the BCTC Learning Resource Center articles web page located at: http://www.bluegrass.kctcs.edu/LCC/LIB/articles.html

OFF-CAMPUS DATABASE ACCESS:

To access the Kentucky Virtual Library link from the LRC articles page, use the KYVL login/password (BCTC faculty may request the current KYVL login/password from any BCTC librarian; the login/password changes at least twice a year).
To access proxied databases from off-campus, use the BCTC proxied links to connect, instead. Most database links on the LRC articles webpage are proxied links, (except for the Kentucky Virtual Library direct link).
JSTOR, ARTstor, Newsbank, InfoTrac, Newsbank, and ebrary databases can only be accessed off-campus via proxied links; they are not available in the Kentucky Virtual Library. An ebrary proxied link can be found on the LRC books webpage. All ebrary links in the library catalog are proxied links, as well.

Directions for accessing proxied databases are at the BCTC Proxy Help Page . You must have an activated BCTC e-mail address to use this system. If you have further questions about off-campus access, contact Maureen Cropper (x56394) or Steve Stone (x56387)

FULL-TEXT RESOURCES OF INTEREST:

Chronicle of Higher Education available on and off-campus

NEW FOR FALL 2006: The BCTC LRC now subscribes to ebrary, an e-book database with approximately 30,000 titles. Faculty and students can set up their own personal bookshelf. BCTC Information Technology Services (x54600) has installed the ebrary Reader on all on-campus computers, so that you can access ebrary on-campus. (Please contact BCTC ITS at ext. 54600 if you are a new faculty or staffperson and your campus computer does not have ebrary Reader installed yet). Users can also access ebrary e-books off-campus, after downloading the free ebrary Reader at home. The link to ebrary is located on the BCTC LRC books webpage.

LIBRARY INSTRUCTION: We will tailor library instruction to your class upon request. If
you have a library assignment that your students need help with and you would like to schedule a library instruction session, contact Marcia Freyman (x56396) for Cooper Campus instruction sessions or Steve Stone (x56387) for instruction sessions on all other campuses. You may also complete an online request form at:

http://www.bluegrass.kctcs.edu/LCC/LIB/bib.html (for Cooper Campus sessions) http://www.bluegrass.kctcs.edu/LCC/LIB/bibextendedcampus.html (for All Other Campuses)

Please allow ample time for us to prepare custom handouts. You may want to refer students to our LRC Online Research Guide http://www.bluegrass.kctcs.edu/LCC/LIB/tutorial/ for help in library research.

Please check out our help sheet on Designing Library Assignments. We hope these guidelines will help you create library-related assignments that will be a learning experience for your students

PERIODICALS: The LRC receives over 250 periodical titles. Current issues are located in
the Periodicals Browsing Area. Bound issues are shelved in the Periodicals Stacks, between AV materials (A/V) and the circulating book collection. Leestown Periodicals are located on the shelves at the Leestown branch.
(BCTC Stacks). The Periodicals do not have a call number, instead they are shelved
alphabetically, by title. Many periodical titles are also available on microfilm.

If you have any questions about our periodicals collection, please contact:

Sarah G. Richardson ext. 56398 (Cooper Campus)

Judith Craft ext. 56712 (Leestown Campus)

RESERVES: Contact the Circulation Department, (ext. 56380) for Cooper Campus Reserves, or Judith Craft (ext. 56712) for Leestown Campus Reserves.

Allow at least one week for items to be put on Reserve. If the materials you are placing on reserve are owned by the library, fill out and submit the Online Reserve Request Form. If you want to put personal copies on Reserve, please print the Printable Reserve Request Form, fill it out, and bring it to the library, along with the materials you want to place on Reserve. Do not assign Reserve readings before they are actually on Reserve.

If you anticipate putting articles or other papers (lecture notes, exam copies) on Reserve frequently, see Terry Buckner (ext. 56397) about setting up a notebook to which items may be added throughout the semester. Reference items are not placed on Reserve. Reserve items circulate for 2 hours within the LRC or 24 hours (overnight checkout), as specified by the faculty member. Space restrictions allow only up to two copies of any item on Reserve.

We arrange Reserve materials by course prefix and number, so make sure your students know the course and number as well as the title of the material they are requesting. If you have required readings on Reserve, you might include this information in your syllabus. We require a valid ID card for library check-outs, so you might also advise your students that they need their IDs to use Reserve materials.

If you would like to take an item off Reserve, please use the Remove From Reserves Form.

Certain types of materials may also be placed on Electronic Reserve.
See Above for details.