Xavier University Library: Library Privileges: Undergraduate Students

Access to Library Resources and Services are available for Xavier University undergraduate students and may require your XU ALL Card. If you do not have this card see the staff at the ALL Card Center on the second floor of the Gallagher Student Center about obtaining one. Please review the library's Notice of Responsible Use.

Resources and services that require your XU ALL Card display the ID card required icon.

Circulation Services are available for materials in the XPLORE and OhioLINK library catalogs. 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.

Document Delivery Services may be used to request materials not available in the library's collections, including electronic collections, or through OhioLINK. These services are available at no charge and are accessible through the library's online forms. Notices for the arrival of document delivery materials are sent to your Xavier email account accessible through MyXU, the campus portal. For many journal articles the email notice will provide a password and link to the full-text of the article. Document delivery services are also available for mateials in the Library Annex.

Education Services include library instruction, orientations and tours arranged by your professor and the library. Research consultations are available Friday afternoons from 3-5pm with the librarian on duty at the reference desk, or make an appointment at a time convenient for you with the librarian liaison for your course.

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 reference desk at 513 745-4808 (hours).

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

Laminator - $1/foot of laminating material
Photocopiers-10¢/page
Production room supplies (paper, poster board, etc.) - cost varies
Computer workstations and wireless laptops - log into computer workstations using your MyXU, capmus portal, user name and password; log out of the computer when you are finished using it, so that the next person to use that workstation does not have access to your files.

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

Internet Access is available in the library using 73 public workstations and 45 wireless laptops.

Reference Assistance is available in-person and by telephone (513 745-4808) during reference desk hours. Email and online chat reference assistance is available 24/7.

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.

TurnItIn (http://turnitin.com/) is the library's plagiarism prevention and detection service. Your professor will let you know if this service will be a part of your course. For help using this service, contact Michelle Early, Bibliographic Control Services Librarian, at 513 745-4817 or early@xavier.edu.

Xtreme 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.