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Library Services for OSU Extended Campus Faculty and Students
Submitted by: Maureen Kelly, OSU Cascades Librarian

Library Instruction and Collection Development
Your subject librarian will provide instruction for your classes, design library based assignments, work with you on special projects, and order new library materials in your area. See the list of Subject Specialists.

Getting Started
Please go to the OSU Libraries’ homepage.

Reference
For assistance with procedures, policies and troubleshooting, contact Extended Campus Librarian Maureen Kelly, maureen.kelly@osucascades.edu, 541-322-3110 (at Cascades campus in Bend).

For help with basic questions contact Valley Reference valley.reference@oregonstate.edu.

For in-depth research assistance, contact one of OSU Libraries' Subject Specialists.

Requesting Books, Videos, and Instructions for Distance Students and Faculty
The OSU Libraries catalog includes materials in the Valley Library in Corvallis, the Guin Library in Newport, the Cascades collection in Bend, as well as Central Oregon Community College's Library.

1. At the main catalog screen search by Title, Subject Heading, Author, etc., and bring up the full record of the item you want to borrow.
2. Verify that its Status is "Available."
3. Click on the "Request" button in the row of buttons near the top of the page.
4. Fill in your name and university ID.
5. Click Submit. For checkout periods, see Library's circulation policies.
6. The item will be Fedexed to you, and you can return it by mail or deliver it to any Orbis Summit library.
7. If the item isn’t available through OSU, click on the Repeat in “Summit (Orbis)” button. Request books, and some libraries lend videos, by clicking on “Request this Item”.
8. Identify yourself as Oregon State U. If you want the item Fedexed to you, your pickup institution is Oregon State, and your pickup location is “Extended Campus”. If you would prefer to pickup up a book at an Orbis library near you, change your pickup institution and location. Please be aware that fines for overdue Summit items are 50 cents a day for students and for faculty.
9. Check your library record and renew books online. Be sure to check back after requesting renewals for Summit and Interlibrary Loan books to see if the lending institution granted the requests.
10. For questions about OSU-owned and Summit requests, contact valley.remote@oregonstate.edu.

Requesting Journal Articles

1. The quickest way to find if the library has electronic access to a journal is to use the E-Journals list and enter the journal title in the search box.
2. To see if the library has a hard copy of the journal, go to the catalog, click on "Journals", and Click on "Journal Title".
3. Type in the title of the journal and bring up the full record for the title.
4. Look at the "Library Has" statement (beneath the location and call #). Does the library have the journal for the date of your article? Is it in paper or electronic? If it's electronic for the date you want, click on the link for it.
5. If the library has the journal in paper for the date you need, click on the Request button, fill in your name and university ID, and fill in the article author, title, date, volume, issue and pages of the article in the form.
6. Select "Extended Campus" as the "Pickup Location”.
7. Click “Submit”, then click “Submit” again.
8. The article will be scanned and posted to the web. You will receive an e-mail to your ONID e-mail, notifying you when the article is available.

Using Interlibrary Loan
Use Interlibrary Loan to request books that are not available in OSU or the Summit Catalog, and articles in journals not available at OSU.

1. Important! You must first pre-register by filling in the ILL form available with your ONID login. It takes 2 days for your registration to be processed, after which you can use the ILL forms at this site to request materials.
2. If you submit requests to Interlibrary Loan, please note that the item is not available at OSU or through Summit in the Comments Field to expedite your request.
3. Please let us know that you are a REMOTE USER by stating that in the Comments Field.
4. After you have registered for ILL, you can also request items for Interlibrary Loan via FirstSearch databases (after determining that OSU and Orbis Cascade do not own the book title; or that OSU does not own the journal for the article date you need). Try the WorldCat database via FirstSearch for books you can't find elsewhere. Request items by clicking on "Borrow this item from another library" and entering your ONID username.
5. For questions about Interlibrary Loan, contact valley.ill@oregonstate.edu.

Stay tuned for advanced Library research tools, coming online soon.