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Home > Using the Library > Library Services > Faculty Services > Research

Services to Faculty - Research Assistance

Faculty Liaison Program

Each permanent full-time faculty member has a librarian assigned as his or her liaison to the Downtown Campus Library. Adjunct faculty are welcome to contact reference librarians anytime for course-related research assistance, but they are not assigned personal liaisons.

Librarians are professionally trained researchers who will help with questions about library services and procedures and with other information needs, including:

• Locating library materials for class readings and research
• Advice on online search strategies and resources
• Current awareness
• Access to materials in other libraries in the area and around the country

Liaisons strive to anticipate faculty research needs and to develop the Library's collection in response to curriculum changes and faculty interests. Library liaisons will work with research assistants to focus their research strategies and efforts on behalf of faculty.

Faculty should feel free to contact their library liaisons at anytime with questions about the Library or requests for assistance. For more information about our reference librarians, see their biographies. For immediate requests when a liaison isn't available, please contact the Reference Desk at 312-906-5670.

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Promoting Faculty Scholarship

The library helps promote faculty scholarship for full-time Chicago-Kent faculty through several services:

• Bepress profile pages
• Display cases on the 2nd floor of the Downtown Campus
• Faculty News newsletter, published 4 times a year
• Links to faculty bibliographies on Bepress in our catalog

Vince Rivera (vrivera@kentlaw.edu) supervises uploads to BE Press profiles and SSRN. Lucy Moss (lmoss@kentlaw.edu) edits the Faculty News. For questions or assistance with any other aspect of these services, please contact your liaison or the library reference desk:

• refreq@kentlaw.edu
• 312-906-5670

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Lexis & Westlaw Passwords

Access to Lexis and Westlaw is only available to Chicago-Kent faculty, students, and staff. obtain or retrieve your personal password, please contact the Reference Desk:

• refreq@kentlaw.edu
• 312-906-5670

Stuart faculty should use LexisNexis Academic for legal research.

Note: Chicago-Kent adjuncts in the Legal Research & Writing program should contact Alice Curry (acurry@kentlaw.edu) for passwords. All adjunct faculty members may only obtain Lexis & Westlaw passwords during semesters when they are teaching. Access is only provided for course-related research. For more information, contact the Reference Desk or the Library Director, Keith Stiverson:

• kstivers@kentlaw.edu
• 312-906-5610

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Library Materials

Faculty may check out library materials in person at the Circulation Desk on the 9th floor of the library. Faculty may also request that library materials be delivered by the Circulation staff by sending an e-mail to a faculty liaison or the Circulation desk. Faculty Research Assistants can also be authorized to check out materials for faculty (see the permission form below).

• Circulation Desk: circreq@kentlaw.edu Library staff can deliver items to a faculty office or faculty mailbox
• Faculty must authorize research assistants to check out materials on behalf of faculty with a signed Faculty Research Assistant Library Permission Form (Word doc file).
• Faculty Circulation Policies - find loan periods and information about renewing books through liaisons.

Faculty interested in obtaining printed or scanned versions of microform documents can pick up a form at the Circulation Desk or send an e-mail with a citation and call number from the DTC Library Catalog. Microform delivery typically takes 24 hours.

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Library Document Center

Faculty members may email requests for photocopies to the library Document Center (doccente@kentlaw.edu) or send a research assistant or faculty administrative assistant to request them in person at the Service Desk on the 9th floor.

We will copy articles, text excerpts, and documents upon faculty request. Bulk copying requests should be directed to the College Service Center (312-906-5095).

Document Services requests will be delivered once a day to faculty mailboxes. Faculty may also arrange to have copies picked up at the Service Desk.

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Privileges at other Libraries

Faculty Liaisons can also request books from local law libraries and process Interlibrary Loan requests. Adjunct faculty can use the I-Share program directly, or contact Stephanie Crawford (scrawford@kentlaw.edu) to place Interlibrary Loan requests.

As part of the I-Share Program, all IIT Library patrons can visit or borrow items from 75+ participating Illinois Academic Libraries using an official IIT or Chicago-Kent ID card. For more information about the I-Share program, see this library guide.

• IIT Libraries - a list of libraries at IIT Main Campus, Rice Campus, and Moffett
• Library Directory - local business, law, and academic libraries in Chicago
• I-Share Libraries - list of 75+ Academic libraries in Illinois
• Federal Depository Libraries in Illinois

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If you do not find the information you need about faculty services on this page, please contact the Library Reference Desk or the Library Director, Keith Stiverson:

• kstivers@kentlaw.edu
• 312-906-5610

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