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Access to Library Resources and Services are available for visiting AJCU faculty participating in the Passport program and may require your AJCU Passport Borrowers Card. If you do not have this card ask the staff at the circulation desk in the library about obtaining one. Bring the AJCU Borrowers Form completed at your home institution and your home institution's photo ID card with you. Please review the library's Notice of Responsible Use.

borrowing Services are available for materials in the XPLORE and OhioLINK library catalogs. XPLORE is Xavier's library catalog and OhioLINK is the combined library catalog for about 85 academic and public libraries in the State of Ohio. These materials may be requested online (help requesting). See borrowing privileges for information about loan periods, renewals, loan limits, overdue fines and replacement charges. XPLORE materials are picked up and returned to the circulation desk in Xavier's library; OhioLINK materials may be picked up and returned to Xavier or to another OhioLINK library more convenient for you (pickup anywhere help). If materials are overdue, it is more cost efficient to return them to Xavier's library. For materials not available through Xavier or OhioLINK see document delivery services.

Education Services include library orientations, tours and research consultations. To make arrangements contact Vicki Young at 513 745-4804 or youngv@xavier.edu.

Electronic Collections, such as research databases, electronic full-text journals, electronic books, and the library 's online catalog, XPLORE, may be accessed in the library and from on- and off-campus locations. See also Circulation Services.

Electronic ReserveS (http://library.xu.edu/) is available with a password for both on-and off-campus locations. If you do not know your password, contact the research help desk at 513 745-4808 (hours).

Equipment & Supplies, such as computer workstations, printers, scanners, microform reader/printers, audiovisual equipment, typewriter, and Elison Die, are accessible in the library at no charge. The following services have nominal charges:

Help A to Z provides online help for many library resources and services.

Interlibrary Loan Services may be used to request materials not available in the library's collections, including electronic collections, or through OhioLINK. These services may also be used to request articles only available in the library's print journal collection and materials in the library's annex. These services are available at no charge and are accessible through ILLiad. ILLIad requires users to set up an account. Notices for the arrival of interlibrary loan materials are sent to the address you supplied in your ILLiad account. For many journal articles the email notice will provide a password and link to the full-text of the article.

Internet Accessis available at library public workstations and laptops. Wireless access with a personal laptop is also available. Ask at the Connection Center Desk for more information about wireless access.

Print & Audiovisual Collections may be browsed in the library and accessed online through the XPLORE Library Catalog. See also Circulation Services.

Research Help:

• Text a librarian
• Chat with a librarian (24/7 virtual research help service)
• Email a librarian
• Telephone and In Person Research Help Hours
• Schedule an appointment with your librarian liaison

RefWorks is an online bibliographic management service that permits you to create a database of references from search results in online research databases. In-text citations and and bibliographies are automatically formatted with the click of a button in a citation style of your choosing. For more information, view our RefWorks help page or contact Marcia Poggione, Assistant Director for Public Services, at 513 745-3971 or poggione@xavier.edu.

Traditional Reserves is accessible from XPLORE by professor or course name. These materials must be picked up and returned to the circulation desk in the library. Some of these materials must be used only in the library. For information about loan periods, hourly overdue fines and replacement charges, see your borrowing privileges.

Subject Guides group library resources by subject which help you to find articles in research databases, books, journals, media, websites, a librarian liaison and context-specific help in a specific academic discipline.

xu.tutor, the library's online tutorials, will help you define a research topic, optimize search strategies, identify useful sources, evaluate websites, prevent plagiarism, and find library materials.